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Quote:An AirAsia flight travelling from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control, the company has said.

Indonesian media say 162 people were on board.

The aircraft, flight number QZ8501, lost contact with air traffic control just after 07:00am local time, AirAsia tweeted.

The company said that search and rescue operations were under way for the missing plane.

An official with the transport ministry, Hadi Mustofa, told local media the plane lost contact over the Java sea, which lies between Surabaya and Singapore.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30614627

Post: #2

Could be for any reason, but if I were to take a guess it would be something having to do with this:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/...-447-crash

Post: #3

Aliens again!

Post: #4

I'm about to leave for a flight on a Singapore based airline. I don't need this right now.

Post: #5

Dammit. Air Asia has some of the hottest stewardesses.

Post: #6

Let's not let this thread turn into a huge downer

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I'm always a bit uneasy about using discount airlines.

Missing children reports often have happy endings. I don't think the same for missing airplane reports.

Post: #8

Yea this plane is not "missing" like a pet might be missing.

This is "missing" like the Titanic is "missing".

Post: #9

(12-27-2014 11:48 PM)Kaizen Wrote:  I'm always a bit uneasy about using discount airlines.

Missing children reports often have happy endings. I don't think the same for missing airplane reports.

Id hope this Asian airline was offering some sort of happy ending

Post: #10

(12-27-2014 11:43 PM)getdownonit Wrote:  Let's not let this thread turn into a huge downer

Can anyone break down the ethnicities of the chicks in the pic? All of them are cute but two on the right interest me more.

Post: #11

Not this again....

Post: #12

Ironically, Air Asia is a discount airline that...is rather expensive these days...then this shit happens

Post: #13

AirAsia is owned by Malaysia Airlines, isn't it?

They're on a roll this year.

Post: #14

(12-28-2014 12:27 AM)JWLZG Wrote:  AirAsia is owned by Malaysia Airlines, isn't it?

They're on a roll this year.

No, but they are a Malaysian airline based out of Kuala Lumpur.

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As an airline employee I can assure you discount airlines are equally safe as expensive ones. They are held to the same safety standard in the country in which they operate. If they operate internationally, those flights must meet even higher international standards.

Only difference between a discount airline and any other one is the level of service provided.

Post: #16

Ouch, poor people. Is the sea around Indonesia and Singapore becoming the new Bermuda Triangle?

Maybe someone is testing some sort of airplane-destroying technology in a hidden base at the seafloor?

Post: #17

(12-28-2014 12:19 AM)samsamsam Wrote:  

(12-27-2014 11:43 PM)getdownonit Wrote:  Let's not let this thread turn into a huge downer

Can anyone break down the ethnicities of the chicks in the pic? All of them are cute but two on the right interest me more.

From L to R

Chinese indian chinese malay

I personally like the one on the extreme left.

Post: #18

Unfortunate as hell. I have flown AirAsia a lot and they are great for what you pay. So unfortunate this had to happen. Very surreal.

Post: #19

this sucks, I just flew from Surabaya to Bali yesterday

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(12-28-2014 03:05 AM)Kdog Wrote:  Unfortunate as hell. I have flown AirAsia a lot and they are great for what you pay. So unfortunate this had to happen. Very surreal.

Yeah, totally agree.
Have flown with them dozens of times all over Asia.
Always been satisfied.

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I fly twice a week, every week, and it never ceases to amaze me how infrequently airline disasters actually occur. Just think about the sheer kinetic energy, number of moving parts, and quantity of highly flammable propellant involved in every flight.

You'd expect hugely complicated machines full of jet fuel moving at 600mph to end up in fireballs far more often, so the modern aircraft industry is truly one of the triumphs of Western civilization. And yet Fuckerberg's cesspit website has a market cap greater than that of Boeing and Airbus combined, in other words greater than the entirety of the world's large commercial aircraft industry. Un-fucking conscionable.

Before I get on a rant: I'd take the girl second from right, no doubt about it.

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Post: #23

(12-27-2014 11:48 PM)Kaizen Wrote:  I'm always a bit uneasy about using discount airlines.

Missing children reports often have happy endings. I don't think the same for missing airplane reports.

Missing children definitely give happy endings in Asia.

Post: #24

Holy shit that article on the air France crash is amazing.. Gave me chills to read the pilots' last words..

Post: #25

I am currently in SEA myself and have been reading most of the day about this tragic accident.

this is the best lead I have found so far

http://www.aviationtoday.com/regions/sa/...VJ_uuP_UHA

http://i.imgur.com/1lw0wW2.jpg

http://aviation.bmkg.go.id/shared/sigwx/...80000.jpeg

https://twitter.com/EarthUncutTV/status/...29/photo/1



If you look at how the pilots and plane behaved before it fell out the sky! It seems to fit the chain of events, check the sat maps and flight warnings for the area.