Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Missing

SteelBird

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delft said:
Radio news, from my favorite, said that the first bodies have been recovered.
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CNN also reports this. Look like they have found it.

Official: Debris in sea '95% likely' from AirAsia Flight QZ8501

(CNN) -- After three days of intense searching, Indonesian officials say they think they've found debris from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the waters off the island of Borneo.
Objects spotted in the sea are "95% likely" to be from the plane that went missing Sunday with 162 people on board, said Bambang Sulistyo, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said Tuesday.
A search team on a plane spotted the shadow of an object that looked like a plane in the water. Further searching discovered floating objects believed to be the bodies of passengers, and then what appeared to be an emergency exit of the plane, Sulistyo told a news conference.
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This is sad...
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delft

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The favorite radio station is saying that forty bodies have been recovered from the Air Asia plane.

The sea is some forty of fifty metres deep at that place.
 
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RIP to those on board, it is good that their loved ones will likely have closure and soon. Despite the relatively straightforward circumstances it is still important to find out what exactly happened and how it can be prevented in the future.
 
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delft

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We will have the black boxes very soon. And there will be no ridiculous delay in the publication of their data as is the case with those of MH17. But we know what is the cause of that.
 
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Perhaps this disaster warrant a separate thread?

SteelBird said:
CNN also reports this. Look like they have found it.



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Today's article said that the live TV news feed that the next-of-kin were watching included dead bodies floating in the water (worse, obviously bloated due to the exposure), so you can imagine for some of them, "that's too much to take" would be a massive understatement.
 
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MwRYum said:
Perhaps this disaster warrant a separate thread?



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Today's article said that the live TV news feed that the next-of-kin were watching included dead bodies floating in the water (worse, obviously bloated due to the exposure), so you can imagine for some of them, "that's too much to take" would be a massive understatement.
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According to local news, another AirAsia with 153 passenger on board run off the runway at Kalibo airport, Aklan province, The Philippines. OMG, not another Malaysia Airline! Will it make AirAsia collapse?

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delft said:
We will have the black boxes very soon. And there will be no ridiculous delay in the publication of their data as is the case with those of MH17. But we know what is the cause of that.
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Yes, the hopeful liberals on the BHO team and in Europe, wishing to not offend the Putin and get him all cranky, Hollande off visiting the Putin and trying to get him to "go home", and leave the poor Ukrainians to fall on their own??? So that I Hollande, can deliver your pretty little French Boats??? please go home, please! and yes we are all way off topic, so lets just let this latest tragedy play out and agree that it was "weather related"?:(:(
 
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AirAsia flight QZ8501: Radar data shows 'unbelievably steep climb' before crash

The findings would correspond with theories the plane's engine stalled
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Wednesday 31 December 2014


Radar data being examined by investigators appeared to show that AirAsia Flight QZ8501 made an “unbelievably” steep climb before it crashed, possibly pushing it beyond the Airbus A320's limits.

The data was transmitted before the aircraft disappeared from the screens of air traffic controllers in Jakarta on Sunday, said a source familiar with the probe's initial findings.

“So far, the numbers taken by the radar are unbelievably high. This rate of climb is very high, too high. It appears to be beyond the performance envelope of the aircraft,” he said.

The source added that the data on which those assumptions had been made were incomplete. Colleagues and friends of the Indonesian captain on board have described him as an experienced and professional pilot.
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Years ago, well before 9/11, when I played with my Microsoft Flight Simulator, trying to make an airliner climb at a steep angle makes you realise how lame it could be. I had to fly nose down first, not necessarily at a sharp angle, to gain speed and then nose up sharply. Even then, the gain in altitude was not much before it lost momentum. Normally, a passenger plane gains altitude at a more gentle angle and at least at cruising speed, which is near to max.
 
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