AirAsia Flight Missing

[Rainman]

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30614627

An AirAsia flight travelling from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control, the company has said.
Indonesian media say 162 people were on board.
The aircraft, flight number QZ8501, lost contact with air traffic control

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

was now coming to post this here

Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said the aircraft, flight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 a.m local time. (6.17 p.m. EST).

The Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers and crew on board, another Indonesian Transport official said.

Mustofa said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact.

[Morpheus]

Wow this again.....

The previous case just died off it seems.

[Rainman]

was now coming to post this here

Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said the aircraft, flight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 a.m local time. (6.17 p.m. EST).

The Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers and crew on board, another Indonesian Transport official said.

Mustofa said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact.

You thought you would be the first to post it but once again you're #deadwrong

[The Paleontologist]

Come Nah man

[asap20]

Here's a visualization of the weather in the area.

https://twitter.com/AdilNajam/status/549058323740626944

[ruffneck_12]

what does it take for a plane to lose communications?

[javishm]

not again

[nervewrecker]

Sigh

[ModMania]

Oh my! Lots can contribute to an aircraft losing communications. As previously reported it asked for an unusual route before going dark

[Dizzy28]

I blame the devil woman on the trini 50 dollar bill.

[V2NR 3.0]

I cannot understand how in these modern times when technology is rampant - a plane could go missing....

[sMASH]

the world is a huge place. Think about how many bodies show up in Trinidad without the dumper being seen.


If all planes can't be tracked by satellite due to the volume overload, probably they should let the controler tower keep coordinates updated live. When a plane goes dark the controler feeds the information automatically to a satellite in the area to search along the projected flight path and possible flight paths.


But then again, everybody fone does be tracked for free in waze.

They playin up in deh tuntun now.



What if Kim jung un recently acquired balls to stand up to America has sumting to do with this?
Whether if they developed sum kinda new technology and this last run was a show of it. And now he doesn't feel afraid of America and want to chook Dem a bit ...

[DVSTT]

was now coming to post this here

Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said the aircraft, flight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 a.m local time. (6.17 p.m. EST).

The Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers and crew on board, another Indonesian Transport official said.

Mustofa said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact.

You thought you would be the first to post it but once again you're #deadwrong

*removesshades*

[SMc]

Search called off again for the nigh...likely on the bottom of the sea they say.

In other plane related news... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30625945

[sliderz1]

aliens finished with the first specimens and needed more


1chatter

[shogun]

I cannot understand how in these modern times when technology is rampant - a plane could go missing....

Bottom line > All.

[Team Loco]

The debris field has been found. Just ten miles off an island. Russian television says over 40 bodies have been pulled. Asian officials also reported seeing a faint shadow of an entire plane underwater. Floating stuff seems to indicated aircraft landed on water intact and then sank.

Sad......

[shotta 20]

Hoping for survivors.

[SmokeyGTi]

the new highway cause that. ask kubs.

[ruffrider27]

Breaking news bodies and debris found in the sea ,real sad for the familes

[shake d livin wake d dead]

all over CNN...aircraft has crashed or summn...

never fly with air asia yes

[SMc]

^^Just so you will stop flying with an airline because of a single crash? or are you just bundling all airlines based in that part of the world as being one airline?

Anyway confirmed, at least they managed to find this crash and the families of the victims have some degree of closure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30634081

[Dizzy28]

all over CNN...aircraft has crashed or summn...

never fly with air asia yes

I guess you don't fly with AA??

[shake d livin wake d dead]

all over CNN...aircraft has crashed or summn...

never fly with air asia yes

I guess you don't fly with AA??

I retract my statement

[redmanjp]

I cannot understand how in these modern times when technology is rampant - a plane could go missing....

this! every1 now have gps in dey phone but a big ass plane don't?

[Knight Rider]

I've always dreaded flying with AA they had some truly reckless accidents. Air Asia has been pretty good for the last 13 years, at the high number of flights they offer I guess it was inevitable almost for an incident to occur. Malaysian airlines went bankrupt after their second incident and pan am was struggling so lockerbie finalized it.

As for aircraft tracking who knows. The transponder and radar are very accurate. The issue with the mh flight was the transponder was tuned off and the aircraft was in a dead zone for tracking and radio comms. Sadly they have not looked to prevent the mh incident from reoccurring. May take another incident or two as history of the airline industry shows.

[stev]

I cannot understand how in these modern times when technology is rampant - a plane could go missing....

this! every1 now have gps in dey phone but a big ass plane don't?

GPS on a device receives a signal from a satellite ONLY. there is no transmitting involved.

there is no way to locate a device via satellite connection only....a 'radio' or 'data' connection is needed....I think

cant remember to well

[UKScene]

There is plenty of technology to track a plane and find it's location to within centimetres. .. However it all costs money for the hardware and the subscription. So not all airlines will use the latest hardware and services.

[boxy]

all airlines use this hardware. the problem is the aircraft that vanished did so in the most remote part of the world. If u ever looked at the ISS video feed pointing down at the earth u would notice once it reaches a certain part of the world it goes blank due to bad signal