Update, pings heard from AirAsia flight 8501
Indonesian authorties now say they have detected water activated sonic pings coming from one or both of the flight data ‘black boxes’ carried by AirAsia flight 8501 when it crashed into the Java Sea on...
View ArticleQatar Airways already testing live black box uploads
Qatar Airways group CEO Akbar Al Baker made an astonishing disclosure to a media conference this week about live streaming data from flight recorders, which no one seems to have picked up on for its...
View ArticleFrustration over ‘black boxes’ as AirAsia tail raised to surface
Almost all of the recovered seats from this nearly full flight were empty Reports from Indonesia indicate growing concern that the black box flight recorders on AirAsia flight 8501 may be being buried...
View ArticleAirAsia CEO Fernandes: Black box may have been found
Note The data recorders have been located and efforts to recover them will occur later today This tweet from Tony Fernandes, who turned AirAsia into Asia’s low fare giant, raises hopes of some answers...
View ArticleAirAsia: Why black boxes don’t float, for the time being
Air France AF447: A reminder as to why floating black boxes won't work There are some interesting discussions on this blog and elsewhere as to why ‘black boxes’ like those on AirAsia flight 8501 don’t...
View ArticleAirAsia FDR recovered, holds potential answers to many riddles
AsiaAsia flight 8501's tail after being recovered on Saturday While the state of the recovered flight data recorder from AirAsia flight 8501 has not been checked out, it has the potential to explain...
View ArticleAirAsia crash investigation gets second data recorder
The traumatic phase of the AirAsia story can now move on to detailed analysis The recovery of the cockpit voice recorder from AirAsia flight 8501 today from the crash site in the Java Sea should see an...
View ArticleSingapore Navy finds fuselage of AirAsia flight 8501
The main fuselage section of the crashed AirAsia A320 has been found by the Singapore Navy, and this message and images have been posted on Facebook by the country’s Defence Minister, Ng Eng Hen....
View ArticleNo early evidence of terrorism heard on AirAsia voice recorder
The Indonesian investigation of the AirAsia crash into the Java Sea last month has found no sounds of terrorism related actions, nor any explosion, on the cockpit voice recorder. There are indications...
View ArticleAirAsia crash details raise issues over training and state of jet
Singapore Defence montage of discovery of 8501 fuselage An abnormal climb rate, possible pre-existing damage to the jet, and questions about ‘upset’ training and pilot standards are all emerging as...
View ArticleAirAsia crash info lurches between secrecy and disclosure
Following the AirAsia crash developments is being made difficult by the variability of the quality and openness of the information being provided or withheld by the authorities. Reports today that the...
View ArticleAirAsia’s ‘screaming’ alarms story a disaster porn beat up
Following on the official nonsense from the chair of Indonesia’s transportation safety committee about not releasing the AirAsia 8501 crash preliminary report another anonymous investigator has been...
View ArticleSuppressed AirAsia preliminary crash report springs leaks
Are all of the critical parts of Air Asia 8501 being recovered? The preliminary report of the investigation into the 28 December crash of an AirAsia A320 into the Java Sea ought to have been released...
View ArticleMuch of suppressed AirAsia crash report now revealed
Although Indonesian authorities have refused to release their interim report into the 28 December AirAsia disaster the key inclusions other than the black box transcripts and data now appear to have...
View ArticleAirAsia pilots said to have cut off flight computers before crash
Indonesia should have cleanly released the data from this recorder This is an updated version of the previous post Bloomberg appears to have gained from Indonesian officials a very critical part of the...
View ArticleAirAsia blames its dead for refund delays
Opinion AirAsia group CEO Tony Fernandes at Sydney press conference this week As someone who admired and respected Tony Fernandes for what he achieved with the AirAsia, and the separate AirAsia X...
View ArticleHarsh truths about crash of AirAsia QZ8501 come out
This AirAsa jet flew with a serious fault for a year before killing 162 people The headlines tonight in some reports about the Indonesian accident inquiry findings into AirAsia’s Java Sea disaster late...
View ArticleAir Asia reported to be making HK, China moves
AirAsia QZ8501, the results of shoddy maintenance An exclusive and thoroughly researched story by Reuters says that AirAsia is contemplating a dual listing entity in Hong Kong and a new joint venture...
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