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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Telah ditemukan 1 Jasad yang diduga korban pesawat Air Asia QZ8501
Jakarta - Pencarian AirAsia QZ8501 mulai menemukan titik terang. Sejumlah serpihan, jenazah, bahkan bayangan pesawat ditemukan di perairan Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan Tengah. Pengamat penerbangan Alvin Lie mencoba menganalisis kondisi penemuan serpihan dan jenazah. Dari informasi yang diterimanya, diduga pesawat itu terjatuh dan pecah saat menyentuh air. "Mungkin pesawat itu impact, pecah waktu menyentuh air," kata Alvin saat dihubungi, Selasa (30/12/2014). Analisis Alvin baru bersifat dugaan. Namun dia mengatakan kecil kemungkinan pesawat itu meledak di udara. "Kalau meledak di udara pasti serpihannya menyebar," ujarnya. Tim gabungan pencari AirAsia menemukan serpihan pesawat dan 6 jenazah di perairan Pangkalan Bun. 3 Dari 6 jenazah itu dievakuasi menggunakan KRI Bung Tomo. Selain temuan itu, pesawat Hercules TNI AU menemukan objek yang menggambarkan bayangan pesawat di dalam laut.
Source : TVONE
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Great TURBULANCE on plane AIRASIA QZ8501
AirAsia QZ8501 Berhadapan dengan Awan Kumulonimbus hingga 48.000 Kaki
KOMPAS.com - Pesawat Air Asia dengan nomor penerbangan QZ 8501 dari Surabaya tujuan Singapura yang hilang kontak pada Minggu (28/12/2014) tak lama setelah lepas landas dari bandara Juanda.
Flightradar24 merilis data sementara perkiraan lokasi pesawat berdasarkan waktu pesawat hilang kontak yang dirilis oleh Angkatan Laut Indonesia. Perkiraan posisi pesawat hilang bisa dilihat pada gambar di atas, yakni di Laut Jawa, antara Belitung dan Kalimantan.
Menurut Flightradar24, pesawat hilang kontak saat terbang pada ketinggian 32.000 kaki dan terbang dengan kecepatan 469 knots. Di situsnya, Flighradar24 menyatakan, status pesawat "landed". Status itu biasa diterima ketika pesawat hilang kontak.Pelaksana tugas Dirjen Perhubungan Udara Joko Murdjatmojo mengatakan pesawat dengan nomor penerbangan QZ8501 itu sempat melakukan kontak terakhir dengan ATC di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta pukul 06.12 WIB.
Saat itu pesawat melaporkan akan menghindari awan dengan berbelok ke arah kiri. Pesawat yang terbang dengan ketinggian 32.000 kaki dan minta izin untuk menaikkan ketinggian pesawat menjadi 38.000 kaki.
Kepala Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (BMKG), Andi Eka Sakya, saat menyatakan bahwa usaha pesawat untuk terbang dengan ketinggian lebih tinggi masuk akal melihat kondisi cuaca di lokasi.
"Berdasarkan data kami, di lokasi hilangnya pesawat memang tampak awan yang sangat tebal. Itu awan kumulonimbus. Ketebalannya bisa sampai 5 - 10 kilometer," ungkap Andi saat dihubungi Kompas.com, hari ini.
Kepala Pusat Meteorologi Penerbangan BMKG Jakarta, Syamsul Huda, mengungkapkan hal serupa. Menurutnya, sepanjang perjalanan dari Surabaya ke Jakarta, pesawat memang terbang dalam kondisi cuaca berawan.
"Kemudian pesawat menghadapi awan yang sangat tebal di lokasi (antara Belitung dan Kalimantan). Berdasarkan data, ketinggian puncak awan kumulonimbus yang dihadapi pesawat 48.000 kaki," kata Syamsul. Ketinggian minimum biasanya tidak dinyatakan.
Menilik ketinggiannya saja, pesawat mungkin masih akan berhadapan dengan awan bila naik ke ketinggian 38.000 kaki. Namun, apakah pesawat bisa menghindar dari awan atau tidak, hal itu sangat tergantung pada besarnya awan itu sendiri.
Mantan Kepala Staf TNI Angkatan Udara, Marsekal TNI (Purn) Chappy Hakim, mengungkapkan bahwa masalah cuaca seperti awan adalah hal biasa yang dihadapi dalam penerbangan modern saat ini.
"Sebelum terbang juga kita sudah mengisi flight plan dan melihat cuaca sepanjang jalur penerbangan. Pesawat A320 yang dipakai Air Asia sendiri adalah pesawat canggih yang sudah dilengkapi dengan radar cuaca yang baik," ungkapnya.
Dengan teknologi dan perencanaan penerbangan yang baik, Chappy mengungkapkan, "Kasus pesawat hilang atau jatuh akibat faktor cuaca itu sudah jarang terjadi dalam penerbangan modern."
Pesawat yang hilang kontak dapat terjadi karena berbagai sebab, mulai kesengajaan hingga masalah teknis. Tapi Chappy mengatakan, saat ini masih terlalu dini untuk memprediksi apa yang terjadi pada Air Asia QZ 8501. Masih diperlukan lebih banyak data.
QZ 8501 membawa 155 penumpang, di mana 149 diantaranya adalah warga negara Indonesia. Pesawat itu seharusnya tiba di Changi Airport pada pukul 8.30 WIB. Hingga kini, posisinya secara pasti belum diketahui.
Pesawat yang hilang adalah jenis Airbus A320-200 dengan nomor registrasi PK-AXC. Dalam keterangan di akun Facebook-nya, Air Asia telah mengonfirmasi hilangnya pesawat tersebut dan akan segera menginformasikan kepada publik bila telah ada kabar.
Sumber : KOMPAS
Man who was supposed to travel on missing AirAsia flight with his wife and three young children cancelled his tickets YESTERDAY
An Indonesian man scheduled to travel on the missing Air Asia Indonesia flight with his family has thanked God that chance led him to cancel their tickets just a day before it disappeared.
Chandra Susanto, from Surabaya, in Indonesia, had booked seats on QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore, which lost contact with air aviation control at 6.17am this morning, for his wife and three children to visit his father.
'We had been planning our holiday to Singapore since March 2014 so it was a great surprise for us when we cancelled our holiday yesterday', Mr Susanto told Daily Mail Australia.
He was scheduled to fly with his wife Inge and three children, Christopher,10, Nadine, 7, and Felix, 5, on the Air Asia flight, which has 155 passengers and seven crew on board.
'My father became ill so we had to cancel our flight,' Mr Susanto said.
'It was a difficult decision to make because my son Christopher was so disappointed. He had been looking forward to the holiday for a long time.
Source : Dailymail
Saturday, December 27, 2014
'Not again': Prayers, sadness over missing AirAsia plane
After confirming on social media that AirAsia Indonesia had lost contact with one of its planes, AirAsia changed its logos on Facebook and Twitter from its trademark bright red to a more sober gray.
AirAsia Philippines and AirAsia Hong Kong also changed their logos from red to gray.
Flight QZ8501 was en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia, on Sunday, December 28, when it lost contact with air traffic control at around 7:24 am, according to a statement from AirAsia.
“Not again,” posted many users in response to news of the missing plane.
The plane, an Airbus A320-200, had 162 passengers and crew members on board, according to Indonesia's Transport Ministry.
Both AirAsia, Singapore, and Malaysia’s search and rescue operations have been activated to look for the missing AirAsia plane.
‘Be red again’
To Facebook users, AirAsia’s quick change logo change was heartbreaking. “You should not change logo black color. It makes people so sad,” Khamlu Varlaintai wrote in the comments section.
Other users criticized the Malaysia-based low-cost airline for updating its social media accounts before releasing newer updates.
“Why why why?? Latest update please! Don't just make it grey!!! Found or not?” wrote Kelly Henney.
“At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available,” AirAsia said in its latest statement.
The missing AirAsia plane is the 3rd in a series of aviation mishaps to happen in 2014.
In March 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing and is yet to be found. A few months later in July, another Malaysian Airlines flight was gunned down over Ukraine, killing nearly 300 on board.
There were more malicious replies such as Sam Marcus', who wondered why AirAsia had a grayscale version of their logo “ready and waiting.”
“It just a sign that AA is in pray mode. why taking complain too much ?? just wait and see. they should to make sure everything happen true then news it to world,” user Jemi Alfredo said.
“It’s nearing 5 hours since 7 o'clock and Indonesia is not that far from Singapore. If the plane is on the ground, let us pray and hope that it landed roughly safely and that everybody is more or less safe and sound. If it is still in air, let us hope that everybody is calm and nobody did anything stupid,” said Nehru Sathiamoorthy.
"We will be putting out another statement soon. Thank you for all your thoughts and prays. We must stay strong," AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said on Twitter.
A couple of users similarly hoped for the best, wishing AirAsia’s logo would “be red again” soon. – With reports from Bea Cupin and the Rappler Social Media Team/Rappler.com
Source : RAPPLER
AirAsia Plane With 162 Aboard Missing After Call for Course Shift
An AirAsia flight carrying 162 people from Indonesia to Singapore went missing Sunday, after the pilot asked for permission to change course due to weather, the airline said.
"AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24hrs this morning," the airline said in a statement.
The flight was scheduled to land at 8:30 a.m. local time, a spokesman for Singapore's Changi Airport said. AirAsia announced the flight's disappearance on its Facebook page about three hours after the plane was scheduled to arrive.
The plane had 155 passengers on board, including 16 children and one infant, and two pilots and five crew members, the airline said. Most on board were Indonesian. There were three South Koreans on the plane and one each from Singapore, Britain and Malaysia.
The airline said in a statement that the pilot had asked to change course because of weather. The plane had undergone its last maintenance on Nov. 16, the airline said.
"The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost," the airline said.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said it was notified 7:54 a.m., about half an hour after the jet was lost, it said in a statement.
"Search and rescue operations have been activated by the Indonesian authorities," the agency said, adding that it has placed two C-130 planes on stand-by to help in the search. "We remain ready to provide any assistance to support the search and rescue effort."
Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, expressed his grave concerns on Twitter. "My thoughts are with the passengers and their families," he said.
President Barack Obama has been briefed on the disappearance of the flight and is monitoring developments, a spokesman for the White House said. The National Transportation Safety Board is also monitoring developments, but would need an invitation to assist in any investigation.
Changi Airport set up an area to provide assistance to family of passengers on the flight.
The loss of contact with the AirAsia flight comes nine months after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard on March 8. It has never been found.
Source : NBCNEWS
AirAsia Flight QZ8501 From Indonesia to Singapore Loses Contact
JAKARTA, Indonesia—An AirAsia plane with 162 passengers and crew lost contact with air traffic control Sunday on a flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, as it was climbing to a higher altitude to avoid clouds, officials said.
According to the flight manifest, the plane had 155 passengers, including one infant, and seven crew members aboard.
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AirAsia Indonesia confirmed on its Facebook page that contact was lost with flight QZ8501 at 7:24 a.m. local time.
“At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available,” the airline said on Facebook.
“Search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service,” it said.
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200, the airline added.
A flight arrival information signboard shows the status of AirAsia flight QZ 8501 from Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore at Changi Airport in Singapore on Sunday. ENLARGE
A flight arrival information signboard shows the status of AirAsia flight QZ 8501 from Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore at Changi Airport in Singapore on Sunday. EDGAR SU/REUTERS
Airbus said on Twitter: “We have been informed of an event and all efforts are now going towards assessing the situation.”
Ignatius Bambang Tjahjono, president of state-owned AirNav Indonesia, which provides air navigation services, said the plane took off at 5:32 a.m. local time (Western Indonesia time). He said it was cruising at 32,000 feet and at 6:12 a.m., it contacted traffic control at Jakarta’s airport to say it was moving left from the flight path and rising to 38,000 feet to avoid a cloud. At 6:16 a.m. the plane was still appearing on the radar, he said. At 6:18 a.m. it disappeared from radar.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said in a statement that Flight QZ8501 was scheduled to arrive in Singapore at 08:30 local time. It also said that search and rescue operations have been activated by the Indonesian authorities and that Singapore has offered to help.
Local television broadcasts news about the missing plane. ENLARGE
Local television broadcasts news about the missing plane. ZUMA PRESS
“Two C130s are already on standby for this purpose. We remain ready to provide any assistance to support the search and rescue effort,” the statement said. A waiting area has been set up for relatives and friends of the affected passengers at Changi Airport Terminal 2.
The Airbus Group NV A320 operated by AirAsia is a modern and reliable workhorse and is the sole aircraft type operated by the low-cost airline and its associate operations which are based in several southeast Asian nations, including Indonesia. AirAsia is one of the largest operators of the type in the world and holds orders for hundreds more jets from Airbus. The carrier operates its A320s in a single-class arrangement with 180 seats, the maximum allowed.
Source : WSJ
AirAsia jet with 162 on board goes missing on way to Singapore
Before communication was lost, AirAsia Flight 8501 asked to deviate from its planned flight route -- from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore -- because of weather conditions, AirAsia said in a statement.
Flight 8501 went missing at 7:24 a.m. Sunday (7:24 p.m. Saturday ET) as it flew over the Java Sea.
"At this time, search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of the Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority," AirAsia said.
Of the people on board the Airbus A320-200, 156 are Indonesian, three are South Korean, one is French, one is Malaysian and one is Singaporean, the airline said. It had earlier said 157 of those on the plane are Indonesian.
"The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to en route weather before communication with the aircraft was lost," AirAsia said.
Bad weather was in evidence in the region at the time, CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said.
Missing AirAsia plane was on common route AirAsia pilot requested to change route
"We still had lines of very heavy thunderstorms" when the plane was flying, Van Dam said. "But keep in mind, turbulence doesn't necessarily bring down airplanes."
But CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo questioned whether weather would have been a factor in what happened to the plane.
"Ordinarily, the pilots would get the updated weather from air traffic control and, of course, their onboard radar," said Schiavo, a former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation. "So whether there was (bad) weather in the area would not be a mystery."
From flight tracking websites, it looks as though almost the entire flight path is over the sea.
AirAsia is a Malaysia-based airline that is popular in the region as a budget carrier. It has about 100 destinations, with subsidiaries in several Asian countries.
The airline has a "very good" reputation for safety, CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest said.
The loss of contact with the AirAsia plane comes nearly 10 months after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which dropped off radar over Southeast Asia on March 8.
Searchers are yet to find any debris from Flight 370, which officials believe crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
U.S. President Barack Obama has been briefed about the missing AirAsia plane, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said, adding that U.S. officials will continue to monitor the situation.
Source : CNN
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