Official Speculates Missing AirAsia Flight At Bottom of Ocean
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The search has resumed for missing AirAsia Flight 8501, but there appears to be little for the passengers and crew of the apparently doomed flight. Experts are already speculating that there will be nothing but a tragic outcome as they stress the differences between this flight and the still missing MH370. The chief of Indonesia’s search-and-rescue agency told reporters today:
Based on the coordinates given to us and evaluation that the estimated crash position is in the sea, the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea. That’s the preliminary suspicion and it can develop based on the evaluation of the result of our search.
A civil aviation source tells Reuters that authorities have the flight’s radar data and are waiting for search teams in the Java Sea to find debris.
Here is additional information on the missing flight:
- The plane, which was carrying 155 passengers and seven crew members from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, should be relatively easy to find if it went into the sea, an oceanographer tells the BBC. The seafloor in the area is within diver depth and it is “likely that they’ll get answers within a few days,” he says.
- Indonesian officials say Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia are helping search a “very large area” for the missing Airbus A320, and the country has reached out to the US, the UK, and France for sonar technology that might be needed for an underwater search, CNN reports.
- Investigators say there is no sign of a terrorist threat or any other foul play, reports the New York Times. The plane’s last communication with air traffic control was a request to ascend to 38,000 feet to avoid a cloud, which was denied “because of traffic,” an Indonesian government official says.
- Toward the end of the second day of searching the sea between Borneo and Sumatra, there were no confirmed sightings of wreckage, although an Australian aircraft reported seeing “suspicious objects” around 700 miles from where the plane lost contact, reports the AP. An oil slick spotted closer to where the plane was last heard from was determined to be unrelated, officials tell CNN
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“Official Speculates Missing AirAsia Flight At Bottom of Ocean”
Pardon my use of now outdated vernacular but:
Well Duh!
Heavier than water airplane disappears over water, barring some extreme conspiracy theory, where the hell else would it be?
Not for nothing, but if you ever looked for anything in, under or on water, there’s an awful lot of looking to be done! Take a dime, go out in a grassy yard, close your eyes, spin around 3 times and throw it….. now go get it!
Hah! Excellent points made here Stacey! I can’t count the times I’ve lost things in the water, shallow water, within inches of me, and never found them. Refraction is hell 🙂
As a diver I’ve looked for all kinds of things that should have been easy to find…..
Seems odd it’s only one airliner. At this point you’d have to fly
Them out of necessity.
Want a good way to bankrupt a certain airline and expand your stake, sabotage their planes.
Want to send China an indirect message to stop pressing forward with their BRICS nations bank to challenge the printing press that is the Federal Reserve and dollar as reserve
Currency.
But your point about less trained pilots and faulty mechanics could be true, but how they go missing and not just crashing is the part that screams something big at play that us commoners are being shielded from or kept in the dark, but I don’t know
I’m not sure either, but they’ve said the transponder was not turned off like last
Time. Therefore, radar should tell us last location and black box actively
Pinging
They should know exactly where and what they are looking for. The engines usually
Send data back to manufacturer. Satellite reverse triangulation should
Allow details to pinpoint.
Guess lying is a strong word. Misleading public, being frugal with the truth, etc. Lawsuits for
Negligence will be everywhere so maybe it’s cover from
Litigious victims family and prep for onslaught of lawsuits.
Either way no way in hell we are getting full truth
They all like for their own reasons, and most of it has to do with $$$$, but how the hell can they hide shit with so many countries involved in the search. They would almost have to go back to the beginning of events. Hard to figure. I just think, because this airline is part of the Malaysia Airlines Corporation, that their aircraft aren’t properly maintained or their pilots not properly trained. What do you think?
“They should know exactly where and what they are looking for.”
Theoretically… but the transponders have a limited range, about 5 miles as I understand it. It’s not like radar that you can pick up a couple hundred miles out. Even with a towed instrument, you still have to get relatively close.
As I understand it, this particular area of the world is one of many dead spots in radar coverage, so they are really looking for a needle in a big wet haystack!
I’m not buying it. The black box and transponder will still tell you exactly where the plane is, even on bottom of the ocean.
We are still being lied to and while it may sound plausible, it you really stop and think about it the explanation is not
They have to find the black box before it will tell them anything and the transponder stops working after a period of time. So therein lies the rub. I don’t know why they would lie about it.