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The pilots son died the week before the crash.
Suwarto saw his son Iriyanto last week at the funeral of another of his sons who died of diabetes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30622140
Officials confirmed that smoke has been spotted on an island in the search area. No more details yet, its being investigated.
The pilots son died the week before the crash.
Suwarto saw his son Iriyanto last week at the funeral of another of his sons who died of diabetes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30622140
I believe it is. Here is a map showing Belitung Island.Isn't that Belitung Island just west of the spot where the plane went off radar?
I don't know what to think. Would rain put out a fire of jet oil and fuel? I thought foam was used. I wonder what type of island this is. Does anyone live on it?So is there anyway smoke would be visible 2 days later ? I'm not following I guess. The plane just crashed and blew up ? OR the plane has been crashed and burning smoldering since it went missing? The giant thunderstorms did not put out the fire? No one saw the smoke until just now? Please direct me to the logic here because I don't understand. TIA
weather continued!
about 8 minutes after the aircraft disappearance. The image shows conclusively that the aircraft had been flying through deep convective shower and thunderstorm activity prior to the disappearance time. The last ADS-B signal was located about 8 nm northwest of a "cold spot" which is consistent with the signature of mature shower or thunderstorm updraft cores. As this was not a particularly strong cold spot in the storm cluster, it may not have appeared hazardous enough on airborne radar to warrant a deviation.
Cloud radiance at the aircraft's last location was 201K, which corresponds to a cloud top altitude of 47,000 ft. Coldest cloud tops within 20 nm were 191K (52,000 ft), with the stratified anvil mass for this cluster later measuring 189K (about 53,000 ft). ,,, and suggests deep, weak instability.
However the strong bulk shear (70 kt) between the lower and upper tropopause was significant and was conducive to long-lived cells, and probably explained the sustained overnight activity in the presence of numerous outflow boundaries across the Java Sea.
Due to the extremely high tropopause (56,000 ft), cloud tops almost certainly extended to above 50,000 ft. The critical icing layer extends from 17,000 to 23,000 ft, with the -20C layer at 27,000 ft. Flight level temperature was -29C. However as evidenced by Air France 447 incident (temperature at flight level -33C), clear icing can occur in much colder temperature regimes given high levels of water loading in the cloud, and the Air France incident raises questions of whether tropical convection is particularly efficient at bringing supercooled water to higher levels.
Conclusion: Based on the available data and a close correlation of thunderstorm activity at the last received location, it appears that weather was a factor, or was a compounding factor. The most likely hazard, if weather was a factor, appears to be icing.
http://www.weathergraphics.com/awq8501/
Going from bad to worse Qwest is in studio, I am looking for a rope!
Would it not be great if they found the wreckage of MH370, as these objects are so far from the location of flt 8501?
So is there anyway smoke would be visible 2 days later ? I'm not following I guess. The plane just crashed and blew up ? OR the plane has been crashed and burning smoldering since it went missing? The giant thunderstorms did not put out the fire? No one saw the smoke until just now? Please direct me to the logic here because I don't understand. TIA
So is there anyway smoke would be visible 2 days later ? I'm not following I guess. The plane just crashed and blew up ? OR the plane has been crashed and burning smoldering since it went missing? The giant thunderstorms did not put out the fire? No one saw the smoke until just now? Please direct me to the logic here because I don't understand. TIA
My fear of flying started because of turbulence. It was moderate not even severe. I was terrorized then, I can only imagine the feeling during severe turbulence.