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AirAsia flight QZ8501 missing - Search called off until Monday
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:46 pm
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:46 pm
Flight from Indonesia to Singapore.
From AirAsia:
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From AirAsia:
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AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning. The flight took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 0535hours.
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC. There were two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board.
The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours
There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots and 5 cabin crew.
Nationalities of passengers and crew onboard are as below:
1 Singapore
1 Malaysia
1 France
3 South Korean
156 Indonesia
At this time, search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service.
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This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 8:17 am
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Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:50 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
That's not good, any idea why yahoo gave me an alert telling me this saying it was sports related?
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:51 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
pg 1
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:51 pm to Wishnitwas1998
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That's not good, any idea why yahoo gave me an alert telling me this saying it was sports related?
Are you into Cricket?
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:54 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
Absolutely not
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:56 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
I panicked for selfish reasons upon reading the topic, but then immediately realized you're ok. What a roller-coaster. .
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:06 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
In
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:10 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
Dang, maybe the Bermuda Triangle has moved to the other side of the earth.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:11 pm to Kentucker
My first thought as well. If the poles can reverse...
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:14 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
Malaysian plane
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:19 pm to diddydirtyAubie
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Malaysian plane
Yep. Make the call now. Will we find out what happened or is this another mystery?
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:20 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
I think we ll find this one fairly quickly
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:32 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Interesting that their release said contact was lost at 7:24 (their time), yet the first news reports didn't hit until 3 hours later.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 11:08 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
There is actually a Dragon triangle. Very similar to the. Bermuda Triangle, and many Japanese, and USA planes were affected by it during WWII. It's also known as the Devil's Sea.
From Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia.
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This area is said to be a danger zone on Japanese maps, according to Charles Berlitz's books The Bermuda Triangle (1974) and The Dragon's Triangle (1989). He states that in the peacetime years between 1952-54 Japan lost 5 military vessels with crews lost totalling over 700 people and that the Japanese government sent a research vessel with over 100 scientists on board to study the Devil's Sea, and that this ship too vanished; and finally that the area was officially declared a danger zone.
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"Pacific Bermuda Triangle", is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. The Devil's sea is one of 12 Vile Vortices, originally plotted by Ivan T. Sanderson.[1] The size and area varies with the report (the only reports stem from the 1950s), with various reports placing it 110 kilometres (68 mi) from an unspecified part of Japan's east coast, 480 kilometres (300 mi) from the coast, and even near Iwo Jima, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) from the coast.(Kusche:259-260)
This post was edited on 12/27/14 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 12/27/14 at 11:26 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
Seems like the flight was 2 hours in when they lost contact. Surabaya-Singapore is not a long distance, probably not more than a 3-4 hour flight. That puts them probably over Borneo.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 11:34 pm to cokebottleag
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Seems like the flight was 2 hours in when they lost contact. Surabaya-Singapore is not a long distance, probably not more than a 3-4 hour flight. That puts them probably over Borneo.
Don't think so. Borneo would have been out of the way to the east based on their route.
There are reports now of a possible crash site on Belitung Island to the north of Surabaya.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 8:19 am to FleshEatingSalsa
Search called off for now due to darkness. Will continue Monday.
I keep hearing how sophisticated Indonesia's search and rescue capabilities are. Seems like they would have figured out some ways to keep things going at night.
I keep hearing how sophisticated Indonesia's search and rescue capabilities are. Seems like they would have figured out some ways to keep things going at night.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 8:25 am to FleshEatingSalsa
I believe the concern is that you miss something in the night and incorrectly check off that area as cleared
Posted on 12/28/14 at 2:37 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
Indian Ocean finna eat.
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