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AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore
iONiUM (530420) writes As reported by many news sources, yet another plane has lost contact during a trip. This comes on the heels of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which is still missing, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down. From ABC's coverage: Sixteen children and one infant were among the passengers. At a press conference this morning, Indonesian officials said the plane was several hours past the time when its fuel would have been exhausted.
The six-year-old aircraft was on the submitted flight plan but requested a deviation because of enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost. The plane was under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control and had been in the air for about 42 minutes when contact was lost, AirAsia said.
were on the flight, as if adult lifes did not matter just as much.
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Why is that so important? Are the other passengers just some randoms we shouldn't give a shit about? Not that we truly do, anyway.
Point of information - this wasn't Malaysia Airlines, it was AirAsia.
The pilot tried to ascend over a cloud. My guess is that he hit the coffin corner, stalled, and crashed.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
It's doing nothing of the sort. The linked story appears to be a Pravda op-ed piece quoting Foreign Minister (?) Alexei Pushkov to the effect that Russia isn't really isolated internationally despite the efforts and claims of President Obama to this effect. A native speaker could provide more detail, but that's the gist of it. As for the missing plane, I don't see a single mention of it anywhere on Pravda's main or Asian news pages.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Reddit live news thread: http://www.reddit.com/live/u5b...
Honestly, compared to most news sources these days, it's probably the best one to read.
Right. Since it's a well-known fact that children of most travelling parents are transported via shipping container to join Mom and Dad at their destination.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
It has everything to do with the race of the pilot: the pilot didn't race away from the missile quickly enough!
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> I wonder how viable it would be to just quietly escort flights in that region with stealth aircraft for a while to determine what's actually happening.
With thousands of flights a day, there aren't enough military jets and support crews to do that.
The plane was flying the filed pattern and was where it was authorized to be. The airline should have re-routed it, but that's not entirely the pilot's call. Like the weather, they rely on the word of others for the conditions, then do what they can with that information. They were told the flight path was safe, and it was the one the owners of the plane he was flying told him to take. How is that his fault for being off course?
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Point of information - this wasn't Malaysia Airlines, it was AirAsia.
More precisely it was Indonesian AirAsia, which is a separate company to AirAsia BHD as Indonesia prohibits majority foreign ownership on airlines. Indonesian AirAsia has its own staff, management and maintenance.
It should also be noted that AirAsia BHD practically owns Indonesia AirAsia as they completely funded the holding company that owns the other 51% of the stock.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
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Commercial aircraft go down anything up to 20 times a year, even in modern times. Back when you were a kid, likely 30 times a year or more.
Already we have this lot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
That's one every two weeks. One of the ones you hint at was, what, July and over an entirely different continent anyway.
Learn some statistics. You soon find that people have selection-bias on what they see in the news, what they perceive as a "close fact" (being a plane heading TO Malaysia crashing in another continent, instead of one heading from Malaysia that crashes near Malaysia... very different things), and what they want to lump together to form some kind of extraordinary circumstance.
The airline should have re-routed it, but that's not entirely the pilot's call.
The route and safety of flight are shared responsibilities between the dispatcher and pilot. The final authority rests with the Captain per regulation. Were the captain to feel deviation or complete re-route was necessary, he had full authority and responsibility to do so. Where ATC is not accommodating, he can exercise emergency authority to preserve safety of flight.
...it was the one the owners of the plane he was flying told him to take.
Point of information: The "owners" explicitly do not have that authority.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
check your sources: US airlines (and most if not all European ones) studiously AVOID Syria AND Ukraine AND Iraq PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE DESIGNATED WAR ZONES. Malaysia, AirAsia and other Far Eastern airlines which generally seem to have saving as much fuel as possible as the pimary profit motive, IGNORE war zones and yes, they do fly over them regularly.
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