AirAsia Jet Carrying 162 Souls Vanishes
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Reminiscent of Malaysia Air Flight 370 which disappeared over the South China Sea in March of this year, an AirAsia plane with 162 people on board lost contact with ground control today while flying over the Java Sea. The aircraft had just taken off from Indonesia for Singapore when it dropped off the radar, initiating a massive search for the third possible aviation disaster to affect the region this year.
AirAsia is a low-cost regional carrier based in Malaysia. A representative of the airline said the missing Airbus A320 was on its submitted flight plan route, however, it had requested permission to deviate because of weather. “We don’t dare to presume what has happened except that it has lost contact,” said Indonesia’s acting director general of transportation. He said the last contact between the pilot and air traffic control was at 6:13am local time when the pilot asked to go up to 34,000 feet, apparently to avoid stormy weather. The plane was last identified on radar at 6:16am, and a minute later it was no longer there, he said. Darkness has fallen in the region, reports the BBC, and the search has been called off for the night. It will resume in the morning.
He said there was no distress signal from Flight QZ8501. The contact was lost about 42 minutes after the single-aisle jetliner took off from Indonesia’s Surabaya airport. It still had about an hour to go before arriving in Singapore. The plane had seven crew and 155 passengers, including 16 children and one infant, said the general manager of Surabaya’s Juanda airport. There were six foreigners—three South Koreans, including the infant, and one each from Singapore, Britain, and Malaysia. The rest were Indonesians.
The 6-year-old plane is believed to have gone missing somewhere over the Java Sea between Tanjung Pandan on Belitung island and Pontianak, on Indonesia’s part of Kalimantan island. The AP has a list of key developments in the plane’s disappearance here.
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Souls didn’t pay for airline tickets, people did.
Conspiracy theorists will come out of nowhere, but planes don’t go
Missing anymore.
We are not being told the full truth. Most conspiracy theories come when authorities don’t tell full truth.
It’s not aliens, or triangles, but could be a new weapon, hacker, or Sabatoge that isn’t fully understood yet (or
Is but we can’t stop yet )
Answers need to be demanded
I have to agree. There’s something very strange going on here.
This is getting a bit spooky, I mean Twilight Zone spooky.
The conspiracy clowns will be out in force as will the alien abductionists and the Bermuda Triangle Buffs.
The first question in my mind is “How can a commercial airliner disappear from radar from 34,000 feet without showing any rapid descent?”
This makes three from that part of the world, with all three being owned by Malayasia Air. When does a coincidence stop being a coincidence? I guess when all three can be explained?