Thread: AirAsia plane gone missing

Originally Posted by UncleHo

Whoa! cool it boa, that is a Moderator that you have had a shot at

Are moderators not subject to be challenged, they are needed, but can be questioned. It was a statement of my views. If you took offence to it I can't control that. It was a thought a post no harm intended. But people read things differently.

Originally Posted by boa

Stupid post.

Could be seen to be offensive..... but you are right... people read things differently.

Ironic when the complain was about a more careful choice of words.....

i created this thread in the general section because i forgot that we had a flight section.

mods are free to move it of course.

I hope this thread does stay here for now, so we can follow any new developments.

My comment is that, with all the talk about the satellite tracking of aircraft, a lot of nothing has occurred since this idea was put forward after the disappearance of MH370?

Would a satellite tracking system narrow down the area to be searched? Only if it is turned on!

The other thing to be looked at is, make it mandatory for airports that aircraft leave from and travel to while flying across sea's, to have underwater ping detectors available for immediate deployment, as they are compelled to do with fire fighting equipment.
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Interesting snippet from news report, the pilot wasn't given permission to go to a new height, Bob


" Meanwhile, details of the incident are slowly starting to emerge. The pilot had asked to ascend from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet to avoid clouds, according to Indonesian air traffic authorities. Tatang Kurniadi, head of Indonesia's National Committee of Safety Transportation, said earlier Monday at a press conference in Jakarta that air traffic control did not have time to approve the request due to heavy air traffic. The plane lost contact with air traffic control about five minutes after the request was made."

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

It's still far safer to fly to a destination than it is to cross a road.

So it seems, Bob


' Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia Group, said at a press conference in Surabaya on Monday: "We have carried 220 million people up to this point. Of course there is going to be some reaction but we are confident in our ability to carry people"'

As far as locating the aircraft is concerned, would this aircraft not have some sort of device that sends out a "signal", which would be still be being sent as we speak? I only say this because when the other MH370 flight went down, authorities spoke of some sort of battery powered device that would send out a signal for about a month before the batteries went flat?
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

It's still far safer to fly to a destination than it is to cross a road.

Considering there are nearly 9,000 planes in the air as I am typing, there would be close to 2 million people in the air,

Did hear on the news this morning that 2014 goes down as the worst year in aviation history.