Missing AirAsia Jet Had Three South Koreans Aboard
It seems we can’t go more than a few months without a missing Malaysian linked airplane making headlines:
South Korea’s foreign ministry said Sunday that at least three South Koreans were on board an AirAsia plane that went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore.
The ministry said that a South Korean man and a woman in their 30s, and an infant were among the 162 passengers and crew members on AirAsia’s flight QZ8501 that lost contact with Jakarta’s air traffic control after takeoff early Sunday.
The foreign ministry said it convened an emergency meeting to address the issue, saying that it will monitor progress in the search operations for the missing plane.
“The Seoul government plans to closely watch related authorities’ search operations and will study various options, including the dispatch of a response team,” Lee Jeong-gwan, ambassador for overseas Koreans and consular affairs, said at the opening of the meeting. [Yonhap]
AirAsia’s majority ownership is from a Malaysian company which the industry considers as having a very good safety record.
AirAsia QZ8501 is a repeat of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 debacle.
Impossible scenarios of turbulence and lightening are floated to see if the public or media will run with them.
Obvious ship oil is reported as “possibly” from an aircraft… even though, presumably, everybody looking for the debris of a passenger jet have been briefed on what to look for, including pictures of past debris fields. Reporters don’t know… and don’t care. They just lazily repeat what they are told. But who feeds the reporters this nonsense.
Eventually, a big deal was made about MH370’s transponder and ACARS… but nothing has been said about what data was sent back from QZ8501 and how it ended. There is a lot of important information in that…
…which is quite odd because they are mysteriously searching very far from where the plane was last known to be… and not at all in a direction one would expect it to travel if there was some sort of mechanical failure or “turbulance”-related crash.
Like last time, everyone involved knows some terrible truth the public does not (yet) know… but anybody with their eyes open can see it exists through actions and avoided information.
Anybody else feeling a strong sense of déjà vu here.
I wonder a few things:
How much fuel was left for such a short flight that was almost halfway over.
How large of a search area is reasonable for the amount of fuel that was left?
Did anyone see the plane drop off radar, if so where?
If it did drop off radar from a crash then wouldn’t there have to be some wreckage floating in the area?
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/transponder-loss-key-question-missing-plane
This article addresses a few issues from the MH370 like how even if a transponder was turned off, the plane should still show up on ground based radar if it has sufficient altitude and is within the radar’s range.
This latest crash seems to have been even closer to land and likely withing range of multiple radar stations. I cannot understand how investigators wouldn’t know almost exactly where this plane crashed, if it did indeed crash.
While Occam’s razor and Murphy’s law informs me both planes simply crashed, one does have to wonder if someone is building a fleet of airplanes. I would think there would be easier ways. I think it is well past time to put existing technology to work tracking planes and make it mandatory. Even trucking companies use GPS tracking, why can’t jets?
Found her:
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/contact-with-airasia-flight-qz8501-bound-for-singapore-from-surabaya-lost-033803688.html
Lots of info, but need to sift through it for a while. No solid word on what brought the plane down, but at the moment they are still going with “the storm.”
Sad…
AirAsia is having a rough month:
http://news.yahoo.com/airasia-plane-159-aboard-overshoots-philippine-runway-120615389.html
Besides the loss of QZ8501, they’ve had a plane slide off the runway and stuck in the mud in the Phillipines, and a tire problem that caused a flight to be delayed.
A tire problem can and does happen to just about every airline, but two planes involved in accidents in one week is another story.
Could it be the Black Hand?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2890215/Mysterious-Chinese-blogger-sparks-online-frenzy-predicting-black-hand-going-bring-AirAsia-jet-THIRTEEN-days-one-vanished.html
“Could it be the Black Hand?”
They will know after they recover the aircraft.
If it is, they will find fire damage in lower economy class, the wheel rims will be missing, the drink cart will be looted, and mutherfukker will be spray painted on the lavatory wall.
Then Obama will give a speech imploring the world to “understand” them, CNN will claim they were “just blowing off steam”, and Sharpton will blame racism agsinst non-white hands and organize the Million Glove March.