An other Asian airline Jet gone!

[afterburn 549]

Thats the news...sketchy
Flight Indonesia with 162 people on board AWOL
Missing
not there
not here.
OH boy here we go again.

[BeyGon]

A plane, flight QZ8501, en route from Surabya, Indonesia to Singapore has been reported missing. Air Asia has confirmed the plane’s disappearance

[unclebilly]

Crap, not another Malaysian airline...

On my recent trip to KL from Hong Kong, the in flight map screwed up a couple times and then they just shut it off. I asked the local sitting beside me what was going on and he said, it's not good.

I took my IPhone up to the bathroom area and recall rated the compass to ensure we were still flying south... I felt a bit better after that.

I have no desire to travel to south east Asia after that trip...

[afterburn 549]

I wish no bad on no one, but it do not look good.

[calimedeiros]

****ty situation again something clearly is not working in that region
with today's teck I can't belive they just lose planes

[masraum]

[KevinP73]

[J P Stein]

Quick flash

KUALA LUMPUR: An aircraft has reportedly crashed off the east coast of Sumatera, in the waters of East Belitung.

[Tishabet]

Oh man... I flew a lot of flights on Air Asia when I was living in Kuala Lumpur, it is a "budget" airline and flies out of the "low cost terminal" instead of the regular terminals at KLIA. Cheap,but nothing scary. I have a coworker from that time who I wished a merry Christmas this morning, and she was in Indonesia celebrating the holiday with her family (she is Indonesian). She lives in Singapore. I hope she and her son were not on that flight.

[KNS]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

Crap, not another Malaysian airline...

On my recent trip to KL from Hong Kong, the in flight map screwed up a couple times and then they just shut it off. I asked the local sitting beside me what was going on and he said, it's not good.

I took my IPhone up to the bathroom area and recall rated the compass to ensure we were still flying south... I felt a bit better after that.

I have no desire to travel to south east Asia after that trip...

For a brief time American Airlines had a TV screen display showing a camera view pointed directly ahead of the aircraft - all the passengers got a pilot's eye view of take-offs, landings, etc. In 1979 Flight 191's DC-10 lost its engine on take-off (it fell off the wing) and the passengers got a real time view of their demise as the plane hurtled toward the ground.

They removed the TV screens after that.

[nostatic]

My wife is in Malaysia right now, coming back in a few weeks via HK. I hate these events - god speed to the passengers and crew.

[Tishabet]

Update: my friend and her son do not appear on the passenger manifest, thank goodness. Godspeed to the souls onboard.

[Bill Douglas]

Motion please report in!

You never really quite know where in the world Motion is at any given time.

[motion]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Motion please report in!

You never really quite know where in the world Motion is at any given time.

I am here in the USA, but heading to Vietnam in a couple weeks! I've done some domestic flying on stuff in SE Asia and everything seems pretty legit to me. The Russia domestics always have me worried, though!

[Baz]

I predict they will find something tonight (daytime in that region).

Wreckage in the Java Sea perhaps.

I truly hope a miracle happens and there are survivors....

[mikester]

My boss was on that flight (same airline and flight path at least) the day before. Scary.

[sc_rufctr]

After what happened earlier this year I'm surprised something like this could happen again.
I guess no amount of technology can stop this happening but surely we can track planes more effectively.

I understand there is a lot of air traffic every day but looking forward someone needs to invent a "live black box".
What I mean by that is a device that's always transmitting the status, altitude and position of an air craft to a secure place.

I just hope there's some good news when or if they find the wreck.

Prayers for the families.

[Bill Douglas]

It appears they have found it Missing Air Asia plane is likely 'at the bottom of the sea' | Daily Mail Online and suspect it stalled from climbing to steeply (slowly) I thought the whole idea of these airbuses was that they were almost impossible to crash by this sort of thing

[Chocaholic]

"Found it"? They think it's at the bottom of the ocean. Quite a stretch to "found it".

[afterburn 549]

A lot of knowledgeable people tell me the airbus is unfit for air travel.
Their fly by wire thing sucks .
I know nothing, just saying what they told me.