There was a report the other day that Flight 777 was shot down by the US Navy who thought they had intel suggesting plane had been hacked. You know about the a the malaysian airline that flew over ukraine and got shot down- Now this one;
(CNN) -- An AirAsia passenger jet carrying 162 people lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control early Sunday, gripping Southeast Asia with a second missing plane crisis in less than a year.
The search operation for the missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been halted for the night, but big ships won't return to shore and will leave their searchlights on, according to the Indonesian Transportation Ministry.
Before communication was lost, one of the pilots asked to fly at a higher altitude because of bad weather, officials said.
The aircraft, flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, went missing as it flew at 38,000 feet over the Java Sea between the islands of Belitung and Borneo -- a heavily traveled shipping channel with shallow waters, according to Indonesian authorities, who are leading the search and rescue operations.
AirAsia flight goes missing
Plane was on common route
AirAsia pilot requested to change route"The plane has lost contact at 06:17 a.m. local time," the Indonesian Transportation Ministry's acting director general for air transportation affairs, Djoko Murdjatmojo, said. The aircraft disappeared from radar observations at 6:18 a.m., he said, and air traffic control officers monitored the presence of the plane until 7:55 a.m.
Of the people on board the Airbus A320-200, 155 are Indonesian, three are South Korean, one is British, one is French, one is Malaysian and one is Singaporean, the airline said.
Seventeen children, including one infant, are among the passengers, the carrier said. Seven of the people on board are crew members.
At the airport in Surabaya, loved ones gathered and wept as they waited for any word on the passengers.
Some took cell phone pictures of a flight manifest posted on a wall. The black-and-white papers showed every passenger's name and seat number, but not their fate.
Others simply sat and dabbed tears from their eyes.
"Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. We must stay strong," AirAsia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes said on Twitter, adding thatthis is his worst nightmare. He traveled to Surabaya, where most of the passengers are from.
As word spread of the missing plane, the airline changed the color of its logo on its website and social media accounts from red to gray.
Pope Francis prayed for the missing, according to Vatican Radio.
Heavy thunderstorms in area
Flight 8501 "was requesting deviation due to en route weather before communication with the aircraft was lost," the airline said.
The flight's captain asked permission to climb to a higher altitude, Murdjatmojo said, according to the national news agency.
According to flight tracking websites, almost the entire flight path of the plane was over the sea.
Bad weather gripped the region at the time, CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said.
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@Luke
"If it crashed into the sea, surely there is a tracking device onboard"
It is, but GPS doesn't work under water.
For that, new systems are needed. Systems that unfortunely haven't been developed yet.
The motivation for developing such systems, gets raised every time an airplane go missing like this though, so it's only a matter of time until such equipment gets to be standard on commercial airliners.
Watch Video @ http://youtu.be/jIxMgNiqHT8
Don't know if this info is accurate but if so it's kind of scary
Also watch :
http://youtu.be/UyTswdgUtYs
who is the Black Hand? that was the name for La Costra Nostra back in the early part of the 20th century-some is trying to start a war with China
good points-if they don't find any debris for this one then there will be deep spying -this is another malaysian based airline company-
That’s right. AirAsia Indonesia was a subsidiary of AirAsia centralized in KL Malaysia. Before Tony Fernandez founded it, he worked briefly at Malaysian Airlines before he was kicked out by those jealous and fearful executives who badmouthed him.
Tree airliner 'accidents' at high altitude in one year is never hapend before but tree planes from one country is weird at least.
Couldn't agree more. Many of my friends here have reconsidered domestic trip. Truly those aviation nightmares has haunted their mind. I just do not understand the karma…..just don’t understand. Looks like things will never be the same again. The country's aviation industry is deliberately hit the hardest of all,,,,
it looks like international companies that have made so much money from the Chinese slave labor in the last 20 years may be trying to start a war with China because they are now flexing military muscle in asia-already one report out supposedly blaming the US navy for flight 777 and reports floating around the cia helped to shoot down the ukraine flight-if anything it's mercenaries for western and eastern corporate interests in asia-may they all rot in hell and including the Chinese mandarins
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/12/28/392181/airasia-plane-crash-pos...
Oh, boy. I wonder what happened this time. Fight 777 - isn't 7 an illuminate number? I smell a rat.
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