ANOTHER Missing Airliner!

[Palehorse]

Indonesia's MetroTV station is reporting that an AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard is missing after takeoff from Indonesia on the way to Singapore.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/airasia-missing-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Locutus]

Jeezus!  What the hell is up with airliners going missing in that part of the world?   

[Palehorse]

Jeezus!  What the hell is up with airliners going missing in that part of the world?   

Maybe it's the "rapture"? 

[Locutus]

It'll be interesting to see if they have better luck finding this one. 

[Palehorse]

It'll be interesting to see if they have better luck finding this one.

This latest incident is turning out to be a duplicate of the Malaysian Airliner that went MIA 10 months ago and that still has not been found. 

[The Troll]

   They just might find  pieces of this one.  The pilot ask to go to 42 thousand feet to get away from a thunder storm.   

  Or maybe they found another suicide pilot to sink another plane in the sea.    

[Locutus]

Another good thing they have going for them is that the water is much more shallow along this route than it is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  They'll probably find something on this one eventually.   

[Palehorse]

Another good thing they have going for them is that the water is much more shallow along this route than it is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  They'll probably find something on this one eventually.

Each minute that ticks by ensures it will be harder to find.

If it did indeed hit the water, I find it more than weird that, like the Malaysian crash, no debris trail was sighted within he first few hours after it went down. Nothing. Just water.

And I wonder if the black box signals are active, and if not why? 

Those things are set up to go off on impact, and under water. And yet. . .

I can find my lost iPhone quicker than they can find a missing airliner it would seem!

[The Troll]

Maybe it's the "rapture"? 

  It can't be the "rapture", because Pat Robertson is still here.   

[Palehorse]

Interesting comment here from the CNN article currently on the front page:
. . .But there's also a chance that the AirAsia flight didn't crash after losing contact with air traffic control, he said.
The Airbus A320 is equipped with a ditching switch, Diehl said, that essentially turns the plane's fuselage into a boat.
"If they got the aircraft down on the water safely," he said, "it should be floating." . . .

One has to wonder, just how effective is this "ditching switch" option? I would assume it would require a controlled flight ditching of the aircraft, which doesn't sound like a scenario applicable to this case. If it were, one would assume that a mayday signal would have been sent out.

So, is it effective during an uncontrolled ditching? Probably not.

If it were one would assume a floating fuselage from an airliner would not be hard to spot; rough seas or not. And again, where's the black box signal?

[Henry Hawk]

The conspiracy side of me wonders if this plane is somewhere with the other one setting up for an attack somewhere as a terrorist driven missile.....but that consumes a very, very small side of me.

[Palehorse]

The conspiracy side of me wonders if this plane is somewhere with the other one setting up for an attack somewhere as a terrorist driven missile.....but that consumes a very, very small side of me.

I dunno. . . I'm with you on that. In fact, each day that goes by that we don't find that Malaysian flight I suspect that is exactly what happened to it. I believe I said so here fairly early on back when it disappeared. . . 

[Purplelady1040]

I dunno. . . I'm with you on that. In fact, each day that goes by that we don't find that Malaysian flight I suspect that is exactly what happened to it. I believe I said so here fairly early on back when it disappeared. . . 

You did. I remember you posting that because I mentioned about it being used as a terrorist attack.

[Henry Hawk]

I dunno. . . I'm with you on that. In fact, each day that goes by that we don't find that Malaysian flight I suspect that is exactly what happened to it. I believe I said so here fairly early on back when it disappeared. . . 

I believe you did too. Sean Hannity is a believer of this..... I just WANT to think it is an out there thought...but if they could pull that off just think of the harm they can inflict!

[Palehorse]

I believe you did too. Sean Hannity is a believer of this..... I just WANT to think it is an out there thought...but if they could pull that off just think of the harm they can inflict!

Yes indeed. I've frequently considered this since that first flight went missing. A west cost strike on one (or more) of the ocean front nuclear reactors would be a long term and major problem for the United States, with the fallout being dragged across the country via the jet-stream, for example.

599 human lives are lost just with the three flights that went down in that area alone. Whether they were killed due to an impact or slain by a terrorist group that hijacked the aircraft, lost they are. . .