Thread: AirAsia plane gone missing

Originally Posted by Scouse

I know it's not uncommon - it's just that your other posts indicated it was 'an unusual route'.

yeah, i was quoting the news.

if avoiding weather is unusual, every time i fly i must have an unusual flight, lol

The only concrete suggestion as to what happened that I have seen is that of a stall/spin (similar to Air France) although I would think that any airline pilot today would have absorbed the lessons from that incident and a repeat would be very unlikely.

The other possibility that occurs to me is a midair collision with an undocumented flight (with transponder off), something that is also very unlikely. Perhaps more likely is a airframe failure in extreme weather, but this is still very unlikely - airliners fly through this sort of weather all the time with nothing worse than a bit of turbulence and occasional injured passengers.

But regardless, whatever happened, it is something that was very unlikely!

John

Not good.
I know nothing about aircraft/navigation etc.
I read this morning that, at this stage, bad weather may be the issue. I read that bad storms can get to over 60,000', & can climb quicker than an aircraft, also that severe hail in such a storm, could take down an aircraft such as the one in question.
Pickles.

A hail stone the size of a cricket ball hitting a window pane that is travelling at near four hundred kilometres per hour?
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I heard this morning the plane was travelling at 160kph slower than it should have been at the height it was travelling at...................whatever that means?

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

A hail stone the size of a cricket ball hitting a window pane that is travelling at near four hundred kilometres per hour?
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Yeah, hitting the pilots window, sudden depressurisation........interesting theory!!!

There was some kind of expert in ABC news this morning claiming that the plane was too small to have been in that spot in those weather conditions and that it is a possibility that they were caught in an extreme updraft that led to a nose up stall. Still at that altitude it seems amazing that there was no mayday even if they had lost control.

too small?

an expert?

must check this expert out.....I'll just go and look at ABC news.