Thanks to Pinecleandog and Dogunn, from what I can see, he isn't on the list. Thank christ for that. Didn't need my day to get worse. However, he was/is still on that particular route and hasn't contacted anyone yet.
[QUOTE=HyperTails;46808253]All this news this year makes me never want to fly[/QUOTE]
If you put yourself on a bike, the probability of you dying is much higher than taking a flight.
Yeah but the thing is when I'm on the bike I can kinda control myself but when I'm in the air if the plane is going to crash I can't affect situation in any way and I'm screwed.
[QUOTE=junker154;46809983]If you put yourself on a bike, the probability of you dying is much higher than taking a flight.[/QUOTE]
you got a point. pretty sure being on a bike in the air flying at 500+ mph is considerably more dangerous than doing those speeds with a plane
[QUOTE=LNKFAN;46810064]you got a point. pretty sure being on a bike in the air flying at 500+ mph is considerably more dangerous than doing those speeds with a plane[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/assets/img/how-risky-is-flying/image-01-large.jpg[/t]
(For US 1999-2003 .. but my guess it is the same everywhere else)
[QUOTE=Grimhound;46808160]We should go back to rigid airships. Much harder to lose those.[/QUOTE]
you're kidding me right?
I hope all these missing planes prompts an overhaul of tracking tech or something like that
it's the 21st fucking century, planes shouldn't ever just 'disappear'
[QUOTE=Nak;46810147]
(For US 1999-2003 .. but my guess it is the same everywhere else)[/QUOTE]
I don't think so.
Lets just hope we find them alive this time. The search area is much smaller and more manageable
[QUOTE=TripleR309;46810641]Lets just hope we find them alive this time. The search area is much smaller and more manageable[/QUOTE]
From what I understood so far, the reason was probably the bad weather, so even if they managed to do a controlled water landing (highly unlikely, considering it's only been done successfully a handful of times and it was always in optimal conditions), the chances of survival for the passengers are pretty low...
[QUOTE=Krinkels;46807648]The Singapore Square. Its boundaries will be established once two more planes disappear over Southeast Asia.[/QUOTE]
The Singapore Line will do for now
It's odd knowing only one Singaporean was on the plane, was expecting more since the destination was here.
Also wow we send out 2 c130s, 1 frigate, 1 LST, 1 missile corvette and 1 SAR ship.
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;46807612]Most Asian countries buy leftover US/European aircraft; most of which is +20 years old.[/QUOTE]?
Almost every plane I've been in in America is 20+ years old.
[QUOTE=Animosus;46809943]Thanks to Pinecleandog and Dogunn, from what I can see, he isn't on the list. Thank christ for that. Didn't need my day to get worse. However, he was/is still on that particular route and hasn't contacted anyone yet.[/QUOTE]
Nice one dude. Was really feeling for you there.
Given that it was flying right under a naaaasty thunderstorm and had even more shit at about 53,000 feet, About 20,000 feet over them at the time of the disappearance, I'm guessing Hail from them fucked the engines. If it was bright enough outside they could have put it down in the water easy enough, if it was too dark then that shit would have been nearly impossible. Then again the waves would've been brutal, too. So who knows
Genuinely one of my biggest fears. I've been in awful turbulence before and it's such a terrible feeling, you're just helpless.
It's honestly the worst. It makes me sad to think people experienced a crash in a plane, no one deserves that.
[QUOTE=loopoo;46811347]Genuinely one of my biggest fears. I've been in awful turbulence before and it's such a terrible feeling, you're just helpless.
It's honestly the worst. It makes me sad to think people experienced a crash in a plane, no one deserves that.[/QUOTE]
I was in a Beechcraft during a hard landing on railroad tracks that totaled the plane. Lots of fun, just ask my ribs.
e: I should note that since the crash I've wanted to do nothing but fly. Being a pilot is my only real career interest, because I'm not afraid of crashing anymore. :v:
[QUOTE=cr4sh!;46809544]Yeah, that's definitely not right on FR24's part:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IWf5spC.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[url=https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/549067231322447874]FR24: "The QZ8501 status on Flightradar24 says "landed". This status comes from our data provider [B]and is common when data for a flight is missing[/B]"[/url]
Why is this even still happening after MH370? I don't know much about how the location instruments on passanger airlines work but is there really nothing better that they can use to keep the location of the plane visible even after a possible crash?
What I'm really trying to say is how are passanger planes, carrying hundreds of human lives and owned by billion dollar companies, simply dissapearing?
[QUOTE=SnakeHead;46812951]Why is this even still happening after MH370? I don't know much about how the location instruments on passanger airlines work but is there really nothing better that they can use to keep the location of the plane visible even after a possible crash?
What I'm really trying to say is how are passanger planes, carrying hundreds of human lives and owned by billion dollar companies, simply dissapearing?[/QUOTE]
I think there is a process underway to get a better system in place but it'll take a couple of years and they didn't expect another major incident so soon
[QUOTE=smurfy;46812967]I think there is a process underway to get a better system in place but it'll take a couple of years and they didn't expect another major incident so soon[/QUOTE]
I feel like the GPS on my phone could better give my last known location right before impact in a storm than the shit they use in their million dollar planes.
But then again I can't fly through the air and travel a hundred MPH.
[QUOTE=SnakeHead;46812951]Why is this even still happening after MH370? I don't know much about how the location instruments on passanger airlines work but is there really nothing better that they can use to keep the location of the plane visible even after a possible crash?
What I'm really trying to say is how are passanger planes, carrying hundreds of human lives and owned by billion dollar companies, simply dissapearing?[/QUOTE]
There are a lot of planes, and standards take a long time to change. They are in the process (I believe) of having the location stuff changed, but it takes a while for everything to become standardised between commercial and private planes, so it's still a few years away.
Although the technology they are updating to has been around for ages.
All the news channel are reporting this here. Some of them brings expert that tries to explain what might happen to that airplane, like dual engine flameout because of bad weather and icing and stuff. At least now they resume the search, and now Singapore and Malaysia is helping us finding that plane. And official sources confirmed that any rumors are untrue.
British Embassy does confirm that one of British citizen are in there though
Pictures coming soon
I don't know jack about planes or radio for that matter, but why can't planes just have GPS receivers and broadcast their location over shortwave or something?
[QUOTE=SnakeHead;46812951]
What I'm really trying to say is how are passenger planes, carrying hundreds of human lives and owned by billion dollar companies, simply disappearing?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://images.blu-ray.com/news/upload/2045.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=icemaz;46813020]There are a lot of planes, and standards take a long time to change. They are in the process (I believe) of having the location stuff changed, but it takes a while for everything to become standardised between commercial and private planes, so it's still a few years away.
Although the technology they are updating to has been around for ages.[/QUOTE]
Mostly due to the FAA and other similar international organizations being a bunch of stubborn whiny bureaucratic jackasses
I really am far, far from a conspiracy nut but at this point it does seem pretty odd.
[QUOTE=proch;46814914]I really am far, far from a conspiracy nut but at this point it does seem pretty odd.[/QUOTE]
no it doesn't:
[URL]http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm[/URL]
This is pure media crap and maybe some coincidence. 3 major accidents in a year is hardly statistically significant.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;46814916]no it doesn't:
[URL]http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm[/URL]
This is pure media crap and maybe some coincidence. 3 major accidents in a year is hardly statistically significant.[/QUOTE]
There's a difference between a crash and a [I]plane[/I] just disappearing and never being found. Twice in the same year.
[QUOTE=proch;46814942]There's a difference between a crash and a [I]plane[/I] just disappearing and never being found.[/QUOTE]
Plane crashes in the ocean spread debris across a wide area. It took two years to find all of the wreckage of Air France Flight 447.
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