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Old 12-27-2014, 10:34 PM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Hopefully they find this one....

What is it with this year and airplanes? This is like the 5th passenger plane to crash...

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Another Malaysian airplane goes missing......
I thought it's Indonesian?

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Old 12-27-2014, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Toronto
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Damn - not a good sign, flight lost contact with ATC about 42 minutes after takeoff right in the middle of the Java Sea..
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Old 12-27-2014, 10:58 PM
 
Location: 53179
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Hopefully they find this one....

What is it with this year and airplanes? This is like the 5th passenger plane to crash...


I thought it's Indonesian?

I looked it up on Wiki. Maybe I'm wrong.
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Old 12-27-2014, 11:00 PM
 
Location: Toronto
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I looked it up on Wiki. Maybe I'm wrong.
Indonesia Air Asia is a subsidiary of Air Asia the umbrella company if you will which is based in Malaysia..
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Old 12-27-2014, 11:22 PM
 
Location: Taipei
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Airasia is probably equivalent to southwest in the states, but I'm not sure if they do long haul flights.
Sorta. Maybe more like Spirit Airlines. They do "long-hauls" under the "Air Asia X" flag. Not sure what their longest distances are but I've flown them from KL to Taipei and from Manila to Seoul.

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I thought it's Indonesian?
Air Asia, the parent company, is based in Malaysia. It has many subsidiaries for the various countries it flies to. It is owned by one of the wealthiest Malaysians.
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Old 12-28-2014, 12:52 AM
 
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I saw the weather maps for that area and there was some seriously nasty stuff en route to their final destination, but still.... planes are designed to withstand bad weather and severe turbulence. If the plane did go down due to weather there's no way in hell it's still intact after dropping 38,000 feet, so the wreckage shouldn't be too hard to find.

I'm not jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon just yet.
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Old 12-28-2014, 12:54 AM
 
Location: NW AR
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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.

Air Asia flight from Indonesia to Singapore loses contact with air traffic control: media
I remember and commented on the MH-370 thread that there might have been some connection to Singapore .. and I have no idea what it is ( if any) but I just found that odd. I don't know why this is happening so frequently.. I hope this plane is found.
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Old 12-28-2014, 02:33 AM
 
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If there is something like "Disaster of the Year", it's got to be Plane Crash for 2014.
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Old 12-28-2014, 02:46 AM
 
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How many planes "are just disappearing" in this region?

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It's in that part of the world now where airplanes are just disappearing. Odd, eh?
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Old 12-28-2014, 05:35 AM
 
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I just saw it on Breaking News on Yahoo. Pilot requested an unusual route. Doesn't sound good at all.
I heard that he requested an unusual route due to weather issues. But as you write, this isn't good at all. I also read that the search has just been suspended due to the nightfall in the area.
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