AirAsia Flight Missing - 155 on board

[jar_e]

Here we go again?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0K601C20141228

An AirAsia flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday, Indonesian media said, citing a Transport Ministry official.

The Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers and crew on board, another Indonesian Transport official said.Mustofa said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact.

Not lots of info out yet.

[FlameOn]

That's crazy. Is there a black hole we don't know about over the Indonesia / Malaysia area or something?

[JonDuke]

the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact.

Things that make ya go hmmm
Messed up.

[fulham]

This is freakishly suspicious again,

For the sake of the family's involved i hope they find closure in this case.

[JonDuke]

Found on Twitter. Still very early so I can't confirm authenticity.

[sharkov]

Another Malaysian carrier disappears

[Acey]

Weather looks absolutely horrible in the area, towering storms up to 53,000 feet. Could be anything, but it's my early guess. If anything, I hope they find the damn airplane.

And as a controller, I'll add the "unusual routing" thing means absolutely nothing. I'm almost sure they were asking for deviations around the very weather that could have brought them down.

[JonDuke]

Originally Posted by sharkov

Another Malaysian carrier disappears

Isn't it an Indonesian airline?
"Associate carrier of Malaysian Air Asia."

Close enough

[OffsideSpecialist]

Nm

[Acey]

It's like a T-Mobile USA type of arrangement. They are their own entity but the parent is T-Mobile of Germany. Either way, any missing airplane with a connection to Malaysia at this point is not good.

[JonDuke]

Originally Posted by Acey

Weather looks absolutely horrible in the area, towering storms up to 53,000 feet. Could be anything, but it's my early guess. If anything, I hope they find the damn airplane.

And as a controller, I'll add the "unusual routing" thing means absolutely nothing. I'm almost sure they were asking for deviations around the very weather that could have brought them down.

Sure does look nasty...

[Nehkara]

I hope this has a happy ending... but if it doesn't I hope they at least find the plane so that the families/friends of those on board can have some closure.

[SHOGUN]

One word: Aliens.

[KelVarnsen]

I know a pilot that flies for Indonesia AirAsia. I hope he is fine.

[wwkayaker]

Wowzers. Hopefully the ending is good but it doesn't look promising. From the news report I read, it looks like the plane has been missing for almost two hours...am I correct on that?

[Acey]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

I know a pilot that flies for Indonesia AirAsia. I hope he is fine.

I think you said you are a dispatcher so you can maybe add to this?

I can't really look at it from a normal person's perspective because it seems self-explanatory to me, but to some degree I think the average person would underestimate the hell thunderstorms can inflict on airliners and the amount of work pilots and dispatchers put in to avoid them; we are damn sure to let the planes deviate as required because they have impressively accurate radar and we have pretty much nothing.

[btimbit]

Yikes

[Dan02]

Longer then that, it was due to land 4.5 hours ago

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by envisu

An aircraft crashed east of Belitung Island, Indonesia, but not confirmed to be QZ8501

edit: Taken from airliners.net thread. They're on top of this

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo...266989/#menu56

Stole this from another forum

[JonDuke]

So...AirAsia has already released the full passenger manifest?
Seems a bit premature

https://twitter.com/airlivenet/statu...70569208315904