AirAsia A320 missing

[Paul K]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30614627

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5535 ... apore.html

[Garry Russell]

Oh dear!!

Asks for unusual route and the disappears.

Hopefully it ends OK... the request may have just simply been a weather issue.

Given the date, it is likely to be mostly Christmas holiday or family visit traffic on these flights

[airboatr]

That was the reason given for the change in flight plan. Weather.

That's three Malaysian airliners gone since March of this year.
?????

[TSR2]

TBH the headline is misleading. He asked to climb to FL380 to fly over a weather system. That's pretty standard stuff.

[cstorey]

Yes, and its pretty standard that it's something you should not do. This applies particularly near what in my day was called the inter-tropical front but which I think is now called the, or a , convergence zone ( sadly its now well more than 40 years since I did my climatology exams ) . The problem is that in the equatorial regions the cloud climbs faster - and further - than you can, and the nastiest turbulence- or more realistically updraft/downdraft regions are in the higher levels . I have the saddest feeling about this one , because it is all too suggestive that it is yet another case of weather avoidance radar being used as frontal penetration radar

[Garry Russell]

Thanks Joe.

That info was not through when I read it but it seemed the most obvious

[dodger]

Let us hope they find this aircraft,

Last week i have been looking on the Australian News sites for any up-dates for MH370 but still no leads at the moment,

Roger.

[Vancouver]

Am I missing something here or is the posting of a repaint within hours (with reference to the missing aircraft in the text so it is not a coincidence) of the report at Simviation in poor taste. To me it is unseemly. I remember similar happening after the Malaysian flight. People are so callous these days. I could of course be out of step and in need of re-orientation in my morals.
http://simviation.com/1/browse-Civil+Jets-55-0

[nigelb]

No Alex, I don't think your comment is at all off base. Posting a repaint of the missing aircraft was thoughtless at best and shows a callous disregard for common decency. At lest in my book it does.

Nigel²

[robbie]

Nothing wrong with your morals Alex, unfortunately it seems that morals are no longer a priority with the younger generation!!.

Personally I think that article lacks common decency!!!

Robbie