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AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore

Posted by timothy on from the hard-loss dept.

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.

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  1. Developing Story by spacefight · · Score: 5, Informative

    With regular updates: http://www.aeroinside.com/item...

  2. Re:Sixteen children and one infant by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because children are presumed innocent, and tragedy befalling innocence turns the emotional value of the story up eleventy times.

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  3. Coffin Corner? by mentil · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The pilot tried to ascend over a cloud. My guess is that he hit the coffin corner, stalled, and crashed.

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  4. Re: who cares how many children by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No. Children are underdeveloped and require a considerable amount of investment before they create value. Compared to adults where the investment has already been made and who now cannot pay it back, children are worth less.

  5. Re:Sixteen children and one infant by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Adults have lived some of their life. Kids have missed out on things most believe everbody should be able to do before they die, like their first kiss.

    Everybody here actually understands this, I have no idea why you all picked now to suddenly act like you're Mr. Spock.

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  6. Re: who cares how many children by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the value of an asshole that spends his evening judging the value of others he has never met?

    You mean, like you're doing right now? Good question.

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