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[Strategist]

http://www.abc.net.a...control/5990424

 

 

 

An Air Asia flight from Indonesia's Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control, the airline and Indonesian authorities have confirmed.

 

 

Let's hope this isn't a repeat of Flight M370

[KaibaSama]

What is this? Year of the missing flights? Have they all gone to some Lord of the Flies type island or is the Bermuda Triangle growing? 

Ignoring my terrible jokes, I hope they manage to reestablish communications. 

[Lucian]

I think it's a huge conspiracy.

[Pilot]

 

What is this? Year of the missing flights? Have they all gone to some Lord of the Flies type island or is the Bermuda Triangle growing? 

Ignoring my terrible jokes, I hope they manage to reestablish communications. 

 

...you do know where the Triangle is?

[Swar]

 

 

 

...you do know where the Triangle is?

 

 

Hence the "growing" part.

[Pilot]

Hence the "growing" part.

[Prisca]

Oh, that is very ungood. I hope the airplane shows up somewhere!

Yes, i too hope that it shows up. I also hope everyone shows up safe. 

 

something else for us all to be worried about. yay for news. *pardon my poor attitude, i dont take well to negative news*

[Romy]

Oh, that is very ungood. I hope the airplane shows up somewhere!

ungood...?

[Wynd]

I hope this is just a plan like they're all going to some super secret cool island to film a movie about missing flights.

Edited by Wundy, 27 December 2014 - 09:23 PM.

[Lucian]

IT WAS NORTH KOREA!

[Rocket]

Previously on Lost

[Spirited]

That sucks. I'm from singapore and I have a couple of indonesian friends who would be flying back home/back to singapore after xmas and I hope everyone is safe.

 

Tho, statistically all missing flights never come back all right do they. Woke up to such sad news.

[Lucian]

Nope.^ The stats are not on their side.

[Padme]

IT WAS NORTH KOREA!

 

@Kate and I both thought this... like at least a hijacking. =| Seriously? how do flights just disappear....

[HiMyNameIsNick]

Aliens

[Lucian]

@Kate and I both thought this... like at least a hijacking. =| Seriously? how do flights just disappear....

 

In all seriousness though I think it's China.

[redlion]

@Kate and I both thought this... like at least a hijacking. =| Seriously? how do flights just disappear....

Besides highjackings and... aliens, there are a number of reasons for planes to deviate from the flight path.

Most commonly it's instrumentation failure. Next up would be pilot error ("I swear I didn't see the mountain!") followed by ground traffic control just loosing their vector info. Less likely explanations include aberrant weather, some other plane malfunction (like the flaps) or death of the pilot.

Everyone should remember that commercial flights are not tracked by military radar. Commercial air traffic control relies on the planes themselves to identify their location so that they can be tracked on the ground. This is in contrast to military equipment, which needs nothing but an initial fix on the plane to continuously track it.

I know this seems like it's the latest in a string of related events, but really, planes go missing all the time. The thing with Malaysia M370 was that it was the second plane from the same airline to go down within a year, the other being shot down over Ukraine by russian separatists.

[Emily]

That damn black hole again...

 

But seriously, I hope they find the plane.

[Lucian]

I know this seems like it's the latest in a string of related events, but really, planes go missing all the time. The thing with Malaysia M370 was that it was the second plane from the same airline to go down within a year, the other being shot down over Ukraine by russian separatists.

 

That's what THEY want you to think.

[Wynd]

There's been a private flight of a pilot and his wife heading to Florida (or something like that?) or around there and for some reason their plane depressurized and they had both passed out. They ended up flying right over Cuba airspace before running out of fuel. There's definitely a lot of reasons flights can go off track.

[Strategist]

Apparently, the pilot requested that they fly up and above a storm cell that had formed in the flight path to try and avoid it, shortly after the correspondence, AirAsia lost all contact with the flight.

 

[Adam]

Maybe these pilots need to open their eyes a little wider...absolutely no racism or invokation of stereotypes intended.

Oh, that is very ungood. I hope the airplane shows up somewhere!

I've been staring at this comment for some time now. Wtb -rep.

[Shannon]

I could make tons of jokes about LOST, but really this is just horrifyingly sad. Imagine your loved one getting on a plane and then never knowing what happened to them. Imagine being on that plane. All the possibilities, and not one of them is positive.

[Waser Lave]

Hopefully this one will actually be found given that they know roughly where it was at the time, it would be a miracle if there turns out to be any survivors though. Certainly hasn't been a good time for Malaysian airlines recently...

[Bone]

I saw the title of this thread and who posted it and assumed it had something to do with Flight Rising...