Not another missing plane...

[TheScarfedOne]

Search Under Way For Missing AirAsia Plane

 

So another plan has disappeared

 

Apparently, western agencies claim their satellites can read the newspaper that anyone in the world is reading. Either those agencies overestimate their surveillance abilities, or they aren't releasing their intelligence on the whereabouts of the missing plane(s). Hmm.

[pcstru]

Apparently, western agencies claim their satellites can read the newspaper that anyone in the world is reading. Either those agencies overestimate their surveillance abilities, or they aren't releasing their intelligence on the whereabouts of the missing plane(s). Hmm.

There is a big difference between pointing a very long lens at someone's newspaper and pointing a very wide lens at the whole world!

[FN-GM]

For anyone who would like more accurate and a little more technical information, this is the site for it - Crash: Indonesia Asia A320 over Java Sea on Dec 28th 2014, aircraft went missing believed to have impacted waters

[Roberto]

Apparently, western agencies claim their satellites can read the newspaper that anyone in the world is reading. Either those agencies overestimate their surveillance abilities, or they aren't releasing their intelligence on the whereabouts of the missing plane(s). Hmm.

 

Yes, because real-time surveillance and intelligence analysis of the entire surface of the globe is a trivial exercise.

[localzuk]

Thing is, the oceans are big places. And planes, are pretty small and don't really float. So, even with GPS tracking, you can still end up with a very large area to search, as the plane can sink, the tracker could have turned off due to a fault/due to mid-air breakup etc...

[Arthur]

Live Updates for Missing Flight QZ8501

[FN-GM]

Thing is, the oceans are big places. And planes, are pretty small and don't really float. So, even with GPS tracking, you can still end up with a very large area to search, as the plane can sink, the tracker could have turned off due to a fault/due to mid-air breakup etc...

 

Once the aircraft has lost power, below is a certain altitude or broken up there is no real tracking of the AC. The transponder can even be turned off inflight and then you are only left with the primary rader. The only thing they use to trace the exact location a wreckage is a pinger on the Cockpit Voice Recorder & the Flight Data Recorder. The battery on these last for 30 days, assuming they are functioning. These pingers can only be tracked within a certain radius of the location of the CVR and FDR. You can use the last known positions from radar but these are not always accurate and only give you a rough area, the situation of Air France flight 447 is a good example of this.

 

According to a leaked Radar image the aircraft suddenly turned left and went off course and climbed altitude before it disappeared.

 

http://avherald.com/img/indonesia_asia_a320_pk-axc_java_sea_141228_1.jpg

Edited December 28, 2014 by FN-GM

[Arthur]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-30630322

 

• Indonesian officials report seeing debris and bodies in the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501
  
• The officials have said some of the debris is red and white, the colours of the missing plane
  
• Flight QZ8501 was travelling from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore when it vanished on Sunday, with 162 people aboard
  
• The pilot's last contact with air traffic control was a request to divert around bad weather