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    A 737/500 down in Indonesia ?

    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    No squark or mayday.. must have been a catastrophic failure...
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    Or perhaps a malicious event causing one.
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    Interesting I can't find any more in the media on this.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    prob cause its sunday morning

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    Unfortunately, there is.

    A desperate search is underway after a budget flight with 62 people on board plummeted at high speed into the ocean north of Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.
    The Sriwijaya Air plane is thought to have suddenly plunged 3000m in less than a minute, according to flight tracking website Flightradar24.com.
    Witnesses reportedly saw the airliner nose dive into the ocean just four minutes after it took off in rainy weather from Soekarno-Hatta airport.
    The Boeing 737-500 disappeared from radar after the pilot contacted air traffic control to ascend to an altitude of 29,000 feet (9000m), Indonesia’s transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi said.









    Plane carrying 62 plummets at high speed into the ocean (thenewdaily.com.au)
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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    Interesting I can't find any more in the media on this.
    Try BBC. They did a story on the 8am news (AEST)
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    I had a look at the satellite weather pictures for the area about that time, and there was a significant amount of cumulonimbus in the area. This suggests there may have been severe turbulence, which could have led to either loss of control or structural failure. This does not, of course mean that there were not other contributing factors such as pre-existing structural weaknesses, maintenance shortcomings, or pilot capability gaps.

    Certainly the high vertical speed and lack of communication strongly suggest something catastrophic.

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    That trace doesn’t really tell much, because most of the data is at, or near zero prior to the event.
    Looking purely at speed data (presumably groundspeed), most of it falls within normal flight parameters, with exception of the spike just prior to descent.
    Both parameters spike upwards sharply. To me, that’s possibly due to entering an active thunderstorm. If so, it looks like when encountering significant convective activity (up), old mate may have countered with forward elevator, causing the high speed event.
    Who knows?

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