JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
PROVERBS 23:5
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
JOB 40:18
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
FLIGHT RADAR24.COM-ASIA
http://www.flightradar24.com/13.08,75.06/2
NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way.html (D-5)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_31.html (D-4)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_77.html (D-3A)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_30.html (D-3)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_29.html (D-2)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way.html (D-1A)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz8501-missing-on-way-to.html (D-1)
ALL MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz8501-missing-on-way-to.html
MH 777-17 STORIES-RUSSIA DOWNS JETLINER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mh370-2-arrested-for-stealing-20000.html
QZ 8501 A320-200 DEMENTIONS AND DATA
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/a320/specifications/
NAMES OF PERSONS ON FLIGHT A320-200 QZ 8501
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1669513/list-passengers-air-asia-flight-qz-8501
A320-200 UPDATE-REDDIT
https://www.reddit.com/live/u5bkiqteljl4
LIVE UPDATES ON QZ 8501-FROM CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/live-blog-airasia-flight/1563004.html
EARTH NETWORKS-LIGHTENING STRIKES
http://www.earthnetworks.com/ournetworks/lightningnetwork.aspx
TRANS7 INDONESIA
http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=id&u=http://www.trans7.co.id/&prev=search
MISSING FLIGHT QZ 8501 AIR BUS A320-200-pic-Indianexpress.com
INDONESIA TIME = 12 HOURS AHEAD OF CANADA EST
http://24timezones.com/world_directory/current_jakarta_time.php
MISSING QZ 8501-A320-200 FOUND IN JAVA SEA-ALL DEAD-162-pic-gopixpic.com
SPECIAL IS 2015 THE END OF THE WORLD
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/will-end-of-world-be-in-2015-do-not.html
Debris area-pic-article.wn.com
THE BODIES OF QZ 8501 VICTIMS KEEP COMING-TOT 30 SO FAR-channelnewsasia
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-happens-to-lost-and-christians.html
UPDATES-JAN 02,15-03:00PM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-11:10am-AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes and CEO of AirAsia Indonesia Sunu Widyatmoko flew to Palembang to attend the burial of one of their own, flight stewardess Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi., was 22 years old. 12:pm-OTHER IDENTIFIED PASSENGERS-Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, was 49 years old-Grayson Herbert Linaksita, was just 11 years old. Kevin Alexander Soetjipto, was 22 years old-Indonesian. 12.30PM: Our reporter Lam Shushan on the RSS Persistence says another journalist who joined an RSAF Super Puma sortie on Friday afternoon spotted what looked like a body in the QZ8501 search site. Two fast craft units were deployed between 9pm to 11pm to investigate the sighting, our reporter says, but the crew on board had no success due to bad weather. 1:35PM-WE FOUND OUT 46 MEMBERS OF ONE CHURCH WERE ON BOARD QZ 8501 FROM INDONESIA.
IDENTIFIED BODIES FROM QZ 8501-A320-200 CRASHED PLANE
Flight Attendants:Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, was 22 years old-Indonesian
PASSENGERS
Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, was 49 years old-Indonesian
Grayson Herbert Linaksita, was just 11 years old-Indonesian
Kevin Alexander Soetjipto, was 22 years old-Indonesian
NUMBER OF BODIES RECOVERED SO FAR-030
Indonesian - 155
South Korea - 03
Singapore - 01
Malaysia - 01
France - 01
Britain - 01
TOTAL 162 CITIZENS ON BOARD
SO WE KNOW AT LEAST 46 WERE PRAISING JESUS THE SECOND THEY CLOSED THEIR EYES IN DEATH.THE SECOND THEY DIED.THE NEXT SECOND THEY WERE IN HEAVEN WITH THEIR AND OUR JEWISH KING AND GOD AND MESSIAH-JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS FOR COMFORTING THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY MEMBERS LEFT ON EARTH.AND ALL THE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT HAVE DIED.BUT FOR THE 46 DEAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST ON BOARD.WE KNOW WE WILL BE SEEING THEM IN HEAVEN.WHEN WE DIE OR GET RAPTURED HOME ANY SECOND NOW. COME QUICKLY KING JESUS.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-happens-to-lost-and-christians.html
46 from same denomination on AirAsia jet-About one-third were of Protestant faith-UPDATED 11:37 AM CST Jan 02, 2015
SURABAYA, Indonesia (CNN) —The world's fourth-most populated country, Indonesia has about 250 million people. Any of them might have boarded AirAsia Flight QZ8501, never to come home.Seven crew members and 155 passengers were aboard -- almost one-third from the same Christian denomination.There was no single reason that members of Mawar Sharon, a Protestant faith with about 45,000 members around Indonesia, got on the AirAsia Airbus plane Sunday, beyond a common desire to get to Singapore in time for New Year's Eve. They weren't heading to one event. They didn't all necessarily know one another, having attended services at different churches mostly around Surabaya, the Indonesian city where the commercial airliner took off.Still, their religion tied them together. And pastor Lianggone Tejo Bunarto says he hopes that those shared beliefs help their loved ones cope now, as the search for more crash victims continues in the Java Sea.As Bunarto says, "We're putting trust in God's hands."Pastor: 'Put our trust' in God's will.About 50 people with relatives on QZ8501 spent part of Friday afternoon inside a special church for police officers in Surabaya. It wasn't a Mawar Sharon church; it was chosen because it's near the hospital where recovered bodies are being identified. But it served the same purpose: to allow the grieving to congregate, to reflect and to voice their beliefs.So they did, holding their hands high at times, holding each other's hands in prayers at others. They sang, the anguish in their faces starkly evident.Afterward, church members preferred not to talk to reporters. But Bunarto, who is a pastor to some of those on Flight QZ8501, did.He acknowledges the struggles these Mawar Sharon members, not to mention scores of other families, are facing. They may not understand why the plane went down. They may have trouble waiting for definitive word that their loved ones have been recovered, if that ever happens. And, despite their fervent faith, they might not grasp God's role in all of it.Bunarto says, "Some things that happen in our lives, sometimes we just don't understand what God really intends."That doesn't mean they lose faith.According to the pastor, "We just put our trust -- everything, completely -- in his will. Because he's going to bring everything (that is) the best in our life."
UPDATES-JAN 02,15-11:00AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-9:40am-Fisherman Mr Pendi saw a plane flying "really low" on Sunday (Dec 28), the day AirAsia QZ8501 went missing. He had been on the roof at the time. He is now in Jakarta trying to assist with investigations. Other fishermen our reporter Xabryna Kek spoke with said it was raining heavily that day, with strong gusts of wind from 5am. 10.30AM: There was a two-minute delay in response by Indonesia's air traffic control after the pilot of QZ8501 requested to fly at 38,000 ft, air traffic logs suggest, reports Bloomberg. 10.50 AM: Forty divers, including 20 deep sea experts arrived from Russia today, and the KNKT (National Transportation Safety Committee) chief voiced hope of a "significant result" in locating the body of the plane. 11.00AM: AirAsia confirmed the remains of #QZ8501 passengers and a crew member who were identified today, were returned to their families. One of them, Grayson Herbert Linaksita, was just 11 years old and he was travelling with his 12-year-old sister and parents for a holiday.
UPDATES-JAN 02,15-08:30AM
3 SHIPS ARE DEPLOYED TO LISTEN FOR THE PINGER FROM THE BLACK BOXES.SO THEY CAN GET THE BLACK BOX FROM QZ 8501-A320-200.The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) Bedok-class mine countermeasure vessel (MCMV) RSS Kallang has arrived at the search area and will focus on underwater search operations. This marks the arrival of all the assets the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has committed thus far at the search area. With the shift in focus to search efforts underwater, Victory-class missile corvette RSS Valour which has been focusing on surface search efforts, will depart for Singapore later today as part of the SAF’s rotational plan.To date, the Singapore Armed Forces has contributed more than 400 SAF personnel, two C-130 aircraft, two Super Puma helicopters, five navy ships and a 6-man Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team.FROM SINGAPORE DEFENCE MINISTRY. Indonesia's General Moeldoko says a total of 65 ships, 14 planes and 19 helicopters have been deployed in the multinational search operations for the AirAsia plane. BASARNAS says 30 bodies have been recovered - 10 bodies are en route to Surabaya, four are at Pangkalan Bun, eight are on board naval ships, and eight are in Surabaya. Waves reached as high as 5m today, making search operations challenging. Crew on board a South Korea P-3C Orion aircraft spotted six bodies in the QZ8501 search area, and three were still sitting in a row of plane seats with their seatbelts on, Detik reports.We have a radar screengrab from Indonesia's air traffic controller which showed the aeroplane climbing to 36,000 feet ... but its speed had dropped by about 200km/hr, which was not enough speed to sustain flight," Geoffrey Thomas, the Editor-in-Chief for Flight Ratings.com said to Channel NewsAsia. I dreamt that two of my teeth fell out. I searched on the internet to find out what it means and apparently it means that you will have a relative who will die," said a woman whose brother is on board QZ8501 to reporter Sumisha Naidu.
FUSELAGE PICTURES FROM QZ 8501-pic-Singapore Defence Ministry
UPDATES-JAN 02,15-07:30AM
Reddit small type from indonesia-#QZ8501 hunt to move underwater on Friday. 2:15am-Watching the live conference now. 3 more body identified. 3:25am-It is reported that America found 6 more bodies today.Until 4PM WIB, the search team have found and recovered 18 bodies. 4:00am-Live conference. Basarnas: We are now sure that the plane have crashed in Teluk Kumai. Head of Basarnas just referred to Russia as Uni Soviet (about them sending 2 planes to help). Basarnas asked civilians help to search the coast for any possible survivors. 6:10am-Total of body found until today: 22. 8 body have been evacuated, 10 still in Pangkalan Bun, 4 are still in the ships. 6:37am- South Korean's airplane spotted 3 bodies, still tied to the seatd.OK THEY OVIOUSLY FOUND THE PLANE NOW.SINCE THEY JUST FOUND 3 BODIES STRAPPED INTO THEIR SEATS.THIS SHOULD BRING THE TOTAL BODIES FROM THE QZ 8501-A320-200 TO 25 AND COUNTING.THERE IS A 2,000 SQUARE MILE AREA WERE THE AIR ASIA SEARCH IS GOING ON.EVEN THOUGH THE WEATHER IS STILL BBAD TODAY.THE SEARCH TEAMS ARE STILL FINDING BODIES ON SCENE.6:45AM-THEY JUST FOUND ANOTHER 5 BODIES BRING THE TOTAL TO 30 FOUND.THERE MUST BE ALL KINDS OF BODIES STRAPPED INTO THE SEATS.THE BODY COUNT SHOULD CLIMB QUICK FROM HERE ON IN.THEY SHOULD HAVE FOUND THE BLACK BOXES TO BY NOW.IF THE TAIL AND THE BODY OF THE PLANE ARE CLOSE TOGETHER.BUT SINCE ITS A 2,000 SQUARE MILE AREA.WHO KNOWS FOR SURE.Update on total number of bodies have been found: 30.AND REPORTS ARE SAYING THE SOUTH KOREANS HAVE FOUND PARTS OF THE FUSELAGE.
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_77.html
Scaries Black Box accidents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNyAWKydUuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlY5W7be5jU
fu·se·lage-noun-noun: fuselage; plural noun: fuselages-the main body of an aircraft.
PICTURE OF BLACK BOX.pic-businessinsider.com
WHAT IS A BLACK BOX? - national geogtaphic channel
Often one of the first pieces of techno-speak that springs to mind when we hear of an aviation disaster - and a catch-all phrase popular with the media - is ‘Black Box,’ but how much do you really know about these vital pieces of equipment? Any commercial aeroplane or corporate jet is required to be equipped with a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder. It is these two items of separate equipment which we commonly refer to as a ‘Black Box.’ While they do nothing to help the plane when it is in the air, both these pieces of equipment are vitally important should the plane crash, as they help crash investigators find out what happened just before the crash.Often, for example when a plane crashes into the sea, as happened with the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182 by Sikh terrorists over the Atlantic Ocean just west of Ireland, investigators have very little to go on – on this specific occasion the plane crashed before the pilot could even issue a mayday signal and much of the debris sank into the sea, leaving few clues.Today, the Black Box is still just as vitally important in helping piece together the causes of a plane crash, as seen by the discovery of the Black Box in the Mexico plane crash that killed fourteen, including the interior minister of Mexico on 4th November, 2008.To help locate the cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder in the aftermath of a plane crash that occurs at sea, each recorder has a device fitted to it known as an Underwater Locator Beacon (ULB). The device is activated as soon as the recorder comes into contact with water and it can transmit from a depth as deep as 14,000 feet. Also, to help investigators find them; a Black Box is not actually black at all, but bright orange.All recorders undergo countless tests. For example, one Black Box recorder, the L-3 FA 2100 underwent testing that includes exposure to a 1,110°C fire for an hour and 260°C heat for 10 hours. It is also able to operate between -55° to +70°C and it can carries a minimum 25 hours of flight data.
WHO INVENTED THE BLACK BOX?
The Black Box was first invented by a young Australian scientist named Dr. David Warren. While Warren was working at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory in Melbourne in the mid-1950s he was involved in the accident investigation surrounding the mysterious crash of the world’s first jet-powered commercial aircraft, the Comet. Realising that it would have been useful for investigators if there had been a recording of what had happened on the plane just before the crash, he got to work on a basic flight data recorder. The first demonstration unit was produced in 1957, but it was not until 1960, after an unexplained plane crash in Queensland, that Australia became the first country in the world to make the Black Box mandatory for all commercial aircraft.
THE COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER
The main purpose of the Cockpit Voice Recorder is, unsurprisingly, to record what the crew say and monitor any sounds that occur within the cockpit. While investigators might be interested in any witty banter between pilots that went on just before an explosion or plane malfunction, trained investigators are keen to pick up on sounds such as engine noise, stall warnings or emergency pings and pops. Investigators are so skilled that they are then able to work out crucial flight information such as the speed the plane was travelling and engine rpm and can sometimes pinpoint the cause of a crash from the very sounds the plane was making before it crashed. The Cockpit Voice Recorder is also extremely important for determining the timing of events as it contains information such as communication between the crew and ground control and other aircraft. The Cockpit Voice Recorder is usually located in the tail of a plane.
THE FLIGHT DATA RECORDER
Of equal, if not more significance to the Cockpit Voice Recorder, is the Flight Data Recorder. This piece of equipment is essential to the work of Air Crash Investigators as it records the many different operating functions of a plane all at once, such as the time, altitude, airspeed and direction the plane is heading. But these are just the primary functions of the recorder, in fact, modern Flight Data Recorders are able to monitor countless other actions undertaken by the plane, such as the movement of individual flaps on the wings, auto-pilot and fuel gauge. Information stored in the Flight Data Recorder of a plane that has crashed is invaluable for investigators in their search for determining what caused a specific crash. The data stored on the recorders helps Air Crash Investigators generate computer video reconstructions of a flight, so that they can visualise how a plane was handling shortly before a crash.The Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder are invaluable tools for Air Crash Investigators worldwide and will continue to play a major role in finding out the causes of aviation accidents, as well as offering plane manufacturers and government’s considerable ideas to help make air travel as safe as possible.
THE FUTURE OF THE BLACK BOX
As technology continues to develop it is likely that Black Boxes, or flight data recorders, will become more and more sophisticated and more reliable, giving Air Crash Investigators more to go on when painstakingly trying to piece together what caused a plane crash.Potentially, the humble MP3 player – adored by music fans the world over - could become part of the flight data recording software. In 2007, US light aircraft manufacturer LoPresti Speed Merchants announced that it planned to fully integrate the device as flight data recorder on all of its Fury piston aircraft. The company believes that if suitable software was used then MP3s would be capable of recording over 500 hours of flight time data.
http://natgeotv.com/uk/air-crash-investigation/black-box
Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck-Reuters-By Fergus Jensen and Gayatri Suroyo-JAN 2,14-YAHOONEWS
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, but bad weather was again hindering the search for the plane and the black box flight recorders that should reveal why it crashed. Officials said more than 30 bodies have now been recovered, along with pieces of the broken-up plane, in the Indonesian-led search for Flight QZ8501 that is concentrated on 1,575 square nautical miles of the northern Java Sea.Strong winds and heavy seas have stopped divers from looking for the fuselage of the Airbus A320-200, which plunged into the water on Sunday while en route from Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board."The waves could reach five meters this afternoon. Higher than yesterday," said air force Puma helicopter pilot Flight Captain Tatag Onne, who has been flying missions to recover bodies and debris from the sea."We look for breaks in the clouds where conditions improve so that we can approach. Yesterday, when we went to collect a body from the sea we couldn't because the body was being rolled by waves. Sometimes we could see it, sometimes we couldn't."The multinational search operation based in Pangkalan Bun, the town in southern Borneo closest to the search area, was bolstered on Friday by experts from France's BEA accident investigation agency, which attends all Airbus crashes.Officials said the French team's hydrophones - sophisticated underwater acoustic detection devices - and towed sonar equipment brought by other international experts could not be used on Friday because of high waves."The sea state has to be calm," General Sunarbowo Sandi of Indonesia's search and rescue agency said. "We cannot operate it in poor weather."But naval vessels from Indonesia, the United States and Singapore with in-built anti-submarine capabilities were using sonar to sweep the sea floor, he added.
STALL THEORY
The cause of the crash - the first suffered by the AirAsia group since the budget operator began flying in 2002 - is unexplained. Investigators are working on a theory that the plane stalled as it climbed steeply to avoid a storm about 40 minutes into a flight that should have lasted two hours.Officials earlier said it may take up to a week to find the black boxes, which investigators hope will unravel the sequence of events in the cockpit during the doomed jet's final minutes.Even in bad weather, however, the search for the AirAsia plane is less technically challenging than the two-year search for an Air France jet that crashed into deep Atlantic waters in 2009, or the fruitless hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that disappeared last year.Given Flight QZ8501 crashed in shallow seas, experts say finding the boxes should not be difficult if its locator beacons, with a range of 2,000 to 3,000 meters (6,560 to 9,800 ft) and a battery life of about 30 days, are working.Twenty-two bodies have been recovered from the sea, Supriadi, mission co-ordinator for the Indonesian search and rescue agency, told a news conference. Debris such as luggage, an emergency slide and a life jacket has also been found.The bodies are being taken in numbered coffins to Surabaya, where relatives of the victims, most of whom were Indonesian, have gathered. Authorities have been collecting DNA from relatives to help identify the bodies.The first funeral one of the crash victims was held on Thursday, and on Friday officials said the remains of three more had been identified, including a flight attendant.
"UNBELIEVABLY" STEEP CLIMB
The plane was traveling at 32,000 ft (9,753 meters) and the pilots had asked to climb to 38,000 ft to avoid bad weather just before contact was lost. When air traffic controllers granted permission to fly at 34,000 ft a few minutes later, they got no response.A source close to the investigation said radar data appeared to show the aircraft made an "unbelievably" steep climb before it crashed, possibly pushing it beyond the A320's limits."It appears to be beyond the performance envelope of the aircraft," he said.Online discussion among pilots has centered on unconfirmed secondary radar data from Malaysia that suggested the aircraft was climbing at a speed of 353 knots, about 100 knots too slow, and that it might have stalled.The Indonesian captain, a former air force fighter pilot, had 6,100 flying hours on the A320 and the plane last underwent maintenance in mid-November, according to Indonesia AirAsia, which is 49 percent owned by Malaysia- based AirAsia.Three airline disasters involving Malaysian-affiliated carriers in less than a year have dented confidence in the country's aviation industry and spooked travelers.Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew and has not been found. On July 17, the same airline's Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.On board Flight QZ8501 were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain. The co-pilot was French.(Additional reporting by Charlotte Greenfield, Cindy Silviana, Michael Taylor, Nilufar Rizki, Kanupriya Kapoor, Nicholas Owen, Adriana Nina Kusuma in JAKARTA, Jane Wardell in SYDNEY and Anshuman Daga in SINGAPORE; Writing by Jane Wardell and Alex Richardson; Editing by Michael Perry, Paul Tait, Robert Birsel)
AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501-AS OF 1 JANUARY 2015 20:00 HRS (GMT+7)-AIRASIA
SURABAYA, 1st JANUARY 2015 – AirAsia Indonesia wishes to update on the development of the on-going search and rescue mission of flight QZ 8501.The Disaster Victim Identification Police Department of Republic of Indonesia (DVI POLRI) today confirmed that the remains of one passenger on board QZ 8501 was identified as Hayati Luthfi Hamid (female). The confirmation was announced upon matching forensic and ante-mortem tests with the DNA evidence submitted by the families.Sunu Widyatmoko, Chief Executive Officer AirAsia Indonesia handed the remains to her family at a ceremony held at Bhayangkara Hospital, Surabaya.Sunu said, “On behalf of everyone at AirAsia, we extend our profound condolences to the family and friends of late Hayati Luthfi Hamid. AirAsia will support everything that the family may need during these difficult times.”Earlier today, BASARNAS also confirmed that a total of six out of seven remains of QZ 8501 passengers which were recovered in Karimata Strait had been transported in Bhayangkara Hospital this morning for immediate identification by Disaster Victim Identificiation Police Department of Republic of Indonesia (DVI POLRI).DVI team are now working on thorough identification which includes DNA check and forensics examination.Meanwhile, the search and rescue effort still continues. Indonesian Minister of Transportation has deployed 5 additional vessels to the searching area. To date, there are more than 90 vessels and aircraft from numerous countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, United States, involved in the operation.Further information will be released as soon as it becomes available.Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families and friends of our passengers and colleagues on board QZ8501.
QZ8501: Tough weather condition hampers fifth day of SAR mission-Astro Awani | Updated: January 01, 2015-ASTRO AWANI
KUALA LUMPUR: The Search and Rescue (SAR) mission of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 which entered into its fifth day on Thursday is expected to be tough based on the rough sea and weather condition.
Malaysian Chief of Navy Admiral Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Jaafar via his Twitter handle stated that the visibility was limited to only five nautical miles.Abdul Aziz had earlier informed that the search area which was set for KD Pahang is at Sector 2 while KD Lekir and Lekiu is at Sector 4.Abdul Aziz also informed that a helicopter had been provided by KD Lekiu for rescue mission at the designated sectors.He added that the search area had also been widened to 13,500 nautical miles on Thursday compared to 6,160 nautical miles on Wednesday.The northern sector has been divided into two sectors which are monitored by the Navy.The sector which is located nearest to Pontianak, Kalimantan meanwhile is monitored by the Republic of Singapore Navy.
QZ8501: Name tag found on a body wearing stewardess uniform-Astro Awani | Updated: January 01, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR: Among the seven bodies of AirAsia's flight QZ8501 retrieved so far, one was found with a name tag on her stewardess uniform.The body with the tag ‘Khairunisa Haidar’ was also wearing a ring and an Alexandre Christie branded watch.Meanwhile, AirAsia Indonesia chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko confirmed that of the seven bodies found, one is of a AirAsia stewardess.The identity of name of the stewardess could however not be confirmed.“It is true we had received the information that one of the bodies found is a crew member, a stewardess. On the identity, we are still waiting for identification from the authorities,” he told Kompas.com.He said, as of now, the issue of compensation has yet to be discussed as AirAsia is currently focusing on the search and rescue mission. Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi’s name is on the QZ8501 passenger manifest.The Airbus A320-200 carrying 162 passengers and crew members from Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday.It was scheduled to land in Singapore at 8.20am.There were 149 Indonesians passengers onboard together with three South Koreans, and one each from Singapore, Malaysia and United Kingdom.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: First victim positively identified as Surabaya teacher-January 1, 2015 - 9:56PM -Michael Bachelard-Indonesia correspondent for Fairfax Media-The Sydney Morning Herald
Disaster Victim Identification crews have positively identified victim 001 of AirAsia's crashed flight QZ8501.Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, 47, an elementary school teacher from Surabaya, was travelling to Singapore for a holiday with her daughter, husband and mother-in-law when the plane crashed with 162 people on board on December 28.Shortly after the positive identification, an ambulance backed up to the police morgue in Surabaya, the police chief said a few words, and Ms Hayati's body and possessions were handed over first to AirAsia chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko, who handed them directly to Ms Hayati's family.At that moment, the heavens opened and rain belted down as two female relatives stood pouring tears at the rear of the police station. They were comforted by the mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini. Another body was found late on Thursday, and was delivered from the boat to the port at Pangkalanbun, Borneo, the closest port to the crash site. This brings the total to eight bodies recovered from the crash. One has been identified, five are at the police morgue in Surabaya awaiting identification — two females and three males — and two have not yet been airlifted from Pangkalanbun to Surabaya.Police disaster investigation chief Budiyono announced late on Thursday that a meeting of forensic experts had made the positive identification of Ms Hayati based on fingerprint evidence, as well as items of jewellery and identity documents found on the body.Attempts to positively identify body 002 - a young man - have so far failed.A neighbour told local media that Ms Hayati and her husband, Djoko Suseno, a used car dealer, had planned to travel to Mecca with their daughter to fulfil the Haj pilgrimage, but that the fifth grade girl had wanted to take a holiday to Singapore first.Ms Hayati's daughter, husband and mother-in-law are now missing, presumed dead.
No news has emerged from the dive site about 105 nautical miles off Pangkalanbun the island of Borneo, where changeable weather may have thwarted once more hopes that divers would be able to access the site of the wreckage for the first time.A Singapore-based ship with sophisticated under-sea sonar also arrived on Wednesday and may have more luck mapping the dive site.Weather reports late on Thursday also suggested the weather was clearing up at the site.
AirAsia Flight QZ8501: Plane may have landed on water, overcome by high seas: experts-Published on Jan 1, 2015 7:12 PM-The Straits Times
JAKARTA (AFP) - As search teams hunt for the black boxes of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, analysts say the pilot may have managed to make an emergency water landing, only for the plane to be overcome by high seas.The Airbus A320-200 left the Indonesian city of Surabaya early Sunday and disappeared from radar over the Java Sea during a storm, but it failed to send the transmissions normally emitted when a plane crashes or is submerged.Experts say this suggests the experienced former air force pilot, Captain Iriyanto, conducted an emergency water landing which did not have a destructive impact."The emergency locator transmitter (ELT) would work on impact, be that land, sea or the sides of a mountain, and my analysis is it didn't work because there was no major impact during landing," said Dudi Sudibyo, a senior editor of aviation magazine Angkasa. "The pilot managed to land it on the sea's surface," he added.The plane, carrying 162 people to Singapore, was cruising at a height of 32,000 feet when the pilot requested a change of course to avoid storms.Although permission was granted to turn left, the pilot was not immediately allowed to ascend owing to heavy air traffic, and the plane disappeared from radar soon afterwards. Some analysts have suggested the plane stalled because it was travelling too slowly or climbed too steeply. It is unclear why there was no mayday distress signal from the cockpit.Indonesia's search team scoured the sea for more than 48 hours before the first debris was spotted off the island of Borneo after a tip-off from fishermen.So far the search team has found eight bodies which appear to be intact."The conclusions I have come to so far are that the plane did not blow up mid-air, and it did not suffer an impact when it hit a surface, because if it did so then the bodies would not be intact," Chappy Hakim, a former air force commander, told AFP.The fuselage is also thought to be largely intact after aerial searchers saw a "shadow" on the seabed, where operations are now being focused.An emergency exit door and an inflatable slide were among the first items recovered by the search team, suggesting the first passengers may have started the evacuation process once the plane landed on water.Former transport minister Jusman Syafii Djamal was convinced the discovery of the floating exit door meant "someone had opened it".Passengers may have been waiting for a flight attendant to inflate a life raft when a high wave hit the nose and sank the plane, Mr Djamal added."High waves may have hit the plane, the nose, and sunk the plane."Flight safety standards require that all passengers can be evacuated from a plane in 90 seconds. The cause and more details of the crash will remain unclear until investigators find the all-important black boxes, which will answer questions such as why the underwater locator beacon did not work.Experts from France and Singapore have joined Indonesian transport safety investigators in their hunt for wreckage of the plane operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysia-based AirAsia which previously had a good safety record.If found, the cockpit voice recorder should detail the conversations of the pilots for the whole of the short flight and reveal their last moments."We can only find out from the black box," said Sudibyo.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: final communications from pilot of missing plane revealed-December 30, 2014 -Michael Bachelard-Indonesia correspondent for Fairfax Media-The Sydney Morning Herald
Surabaya: The final communications between the pilot of ill-fated flight QZ8501 and air traffic control have been revealed as Indonesian naval vessels moved late last night to check new reports of an oil slick in the search zone.The strain meanwhile has begun to show on some families, who expressed frustration with AirAsia's chief executive Tony Fernandes and the chief pilot in closed meetings on Monday.Indonesian state navigation operator AirNav said late on Monday that the Airbus 320-200 captain, Iriyanto, had requested permission at 6.12am local time on Sunday to turn left to avoid a storm.The request was granted and the plane turned left seven miles. The captain then requested to be able to climb saying: "Request to higher level," according to AirNav standards and safety director Wisnu Darjono, as quoted by the Jakarta Post.The air traffic controller responded: "Intended to what level?", to which Iriyanto indicated he wanted to go to 38,000 feet.But there were six planes in the area at the time, another AirNav spokesman said, so, after consulting with the destination airport, Changi in Singapore, air traffic control told QZ8501 it could only go to 34,000 feet."But when we informed the pilot of the approval at 6.14am, we received no reply," Mr Wisnu said.According to earlier timelines, all communication between the plane and Jakarta was lost three minutes later, and at 6.18am, it went off the radar entirely. Indonesian search and rescue agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said yesterday the plane was likely "at the bottom of the sea".Indonesian navy vessel Pattimura was late last night making its way to a location near Bangka Belitung Island to check reports from an Indonesian air force plane of an oil slick on the ocean.It was one of a number of leads in the search zone on Monday, one of which came from an Australian PC-3 Orion dispatched from Darwin in a different part of the rescue area, closer to Kalimantan. Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said ships had checked that area out and had found nothing, and vice-president Jusuf Kalla said nothing conclusive had been drawn from the Australian aircraft's report. Australian Defence officials referred all queries to Indonesia.A list released by the Indonesian search and rescue agency on Monday shows five helicopters, 10 fixed-wing aircraft (including two Australian Orions — one possibly on standby only), and 16 ships have joined the search.At Surabaya airport, some of the relatives of the 162 people on the flight began to express anger at AirAsia executives over answers they considered inadequate. Relatives wanted to know why the departure time of QZ8501 had been brought forward from 7.20am to 5.20am on Sunday. They were told it was just a routine change.Some were seen gesticulating during a closed meeting with Mr Fernandes, and parents said outside that they did not know why, in the face of such bad weather, the flight had not been delayed or cancelled."It seems like the answer to a lot of the questions asked is just repeating 'We lost contact'," said Z. Effendy the uncle of 20-year-old trainee flight assistant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi."The replies were just to humour us," said the missing woman's father, Haidar Fauzi. "They give you the answer they think you want to hear just to keep you calm."Both men said they still hoped for the best, but were realistic enough to expect the worst: "We knew the risk our daughter was taking with this job, so we're prepared," Mr Haidar told Fairfax Media.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: 5 things about Java Sea, where search for plane is taking place-Published on Dec 28, 2014 11:31 PM-The Straits Times
AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 reportedly lost contact with air traffic control over the Java Sea, between the islands of Kalimantan and Java.The Indonesian air force said two of its planes had been dispatched to scour an area of the Java Sea, southwest of Pangkalan Bun in Kalimantan province.
Here are five things to know about the area:
1. Java Sea is a part of the western Pacific Ocean between the Indonesian islands of Java and Borneo. It is bordered by Borneo on the north, Java on the south, Sumatra on the west, and the Flores and Bali seas on the east. It is linked to the Indian Ocean by the Sunda Strait.
2. It has shallow waters, with an average depth of about 46 metres. It covers a total surface area of 167,000 square miles, or about 603 Singapores (Singapore's land area is about 277 square miles).
3. The area is mainly influenced by monsoon climate. The rainy monsoon, which occurs between mid-December and March, is characterised by very windy periods with frequent rainfalls lasting for days. The dry monsoon occurs from June to September.
4. There have been several incidents involving planes and ships in the area.
On Jan 1, 2007, a plane of the now-defunct Adam Air lost contact with air traffic control while it was flying over the Java Sea. The Boeing 737-400, which carried 102 people mostly from Indonesia, was on its way from Surabaya to Manado.Parts of the plane were found only 10 days later off the west coast of Sulawesi. Investigators found that the pilots had accidentally disconnected the autopilot system while trying to fix a problem in the navigation instruments.In May 2009, an inter-island ferry caught fire in the Java Sea. Some 350 passengers and crew were rescued by a passing cargo ship.In December 2006, a crowded ferry broke apart and sank in the Java Sea during a violent storm, killing more than 400 people.In 1981, 580 people were killed when Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas II caught fire and sank in the area.
5. Wrecks of ships are reportedly still in the Java Sea, which is also a popular underwater dive spot.
It was the scene of one of the costliest naval battles of World War II, dubbed the Battle of the Java Sea. The naval forces of the Netherlands, Britain, Australia, and the United States were nearly destroyed trying to defend Java from Japanese attack.In August this year, the US Navy confirmed that a wreck found at the bottom of the Java Sea is the USS Houston, a cruiser sunk by the Japanese in World War II. The wreck is the final resting place of as many as 700 US sailors and marines.Wreck of a ship called Indono that sank in 1955 is also still in the Java Sea, near the waters of Karimunjawa, said reports.
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NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way.html (D-5)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_31.html (D-4)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_77.html (D-3A)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_30.html (D-3)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_29.html (D-2)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way.html (D-1A)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz8501-missing-on-way-to.html (D-1)
ALL MH370 STORIES I DONE
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MH 777-17 STORIES-RUSSIA DOWNS JETLINER
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QZ 8501 A320-200 DEMENTIONS AND DATA
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NAMES OF PERSONS ON FLIGHT A320-200 QZ 8501
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A320-200 UPDATE-REDDIT
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LIVE UPDATES ON QZ 8501-FROM CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
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INDONESIA TIME = 12 HOURS AHEAD OF CANADA EST
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MISSING QZ 8501-A320-200 FOUND IN JAVA SEA-ALL DEAD-162-pic-gopixpic.com
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THE BODIES OF QZ 8501 VICTIMS KEEP COMING-TOT 30 SO FAR-channelnewsasia
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-happens-to-lost-and-christians.html
UPDATES-JAN 02,15-03:00PM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-11:10am-AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes and CEO of AirAsia Indonesia Sunu Widyatmoko flew to Palembang to attend the burial of one of their own, flight stewardess Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi., was 22 years old. 12:pm-OTHER IDENTIFIED PASSENGERS-Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, was 49 years old-Grayson Herbert Linaksita, was just 11 years old. Kevin Alexander Soetjipto, was 22 years old-Indonesian. 12.30PM: Our reporter Lam Shushan on the RSS Persistence says another journalist who joined an RSAF Super Puma sortie on Friday afternoon spotted what looked like a body in the QZ8501 search site. Two fast craft units were deployed between 9pm to 11pm to investigate the sighting, our reporter says, but the crew on board had no success due to bad weather. 1:35PM-WE FOUND OUT 46 MEMBERS OF ONE CHURCH WERE ON BOARD QZ 8501 FROM INDONESIA.
IDENTIFIED BODIES FROM QZ 8501-A320-200 CRASHED PLANE
Flight Attendants:Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, was 22 years old-Indonesian
PASSENGERS
Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, was 49 years old-Indonesian
Grayson Herbert Linaksita, was just 11 years old-Indonesian
Kevin Alexander Soetjipto, was 22 years old-Indonesian
NUMBER OF BODIES RECOVERED SO FAR-030
Indonesian - 155
South Korea - 03
Singapore - 01
Malaysia - 01
France - 01
Britain - 01
TOTAL 162 CITIZENS ON BOARD
SO WE KNOW AT LEAST 46 WERE PRAISING JESUS THE SECOND THEY CLOSED THEIR EYES IN DEATH.THE SECOND THEY DIED.THE NEXT SECOND THEY WERE IN HEAVEN WITH THEIR AND OUR JEWISH KING AND GOD AND MESSIAH-JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS FOR COMFORTING THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY MEMBERS LEFT ON EARTH.AND ALL THE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT HAVE DIED.BUT FOR THE 46 DEAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST ON BOARD.WE KNOW WE WILL BE SEEING THEM IN HEAVEN.WHEN WE DIE OR GET RAPTURED HOME ANY SECOND NOW. COME QUICKLY KING JESUS.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
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46 from same denomination on AirAsia jet-About one-third were of Protestant faith-UPDATED 11:37 AM CST Jan 02, 2015
SURABAYA, Indonesia (CNN) —The world's fourth-most populated country, Indonesia has about 250 million people. Any of them might have boarded AirAsia Flight QZ8501, never to come home.Seven crew members and 155 passengers were aboard -- almost one-third from the same Christian denomination.There was no single reason that members of Mawar Sharon, a Protestant faith with about 45,000 members around Indonesia, got on the AirAsia Airbus plane Sunday, beyond a common desire to get to Singapore in time for New Year's Eve. They weren't heading to one event. They didn't all necessarily know one another, having attended services at different churches mostly around Surabaya, the Indonesian city where the commercial airliner took off.Still, their religion tied them together. And pastor Lianggone Tejo Bunarto says he hopes that those shared beliefs help their loved ones cope now, as the search for more crash victims continues in the Java Sea.As Bunarto says, "We're putting trust in God's hands."Pastor: 'Put our trust' in God's will.About 50 people with relatives on QZ8501 spent part of Friday afternoon inside a special church for police officers in Surabaya. It wasn't a Mawar Sharon church; it was chosen because it's near the hospital where recovered bodies are being identified. But it served the same purpose: to allow the grieving to congregate, to reflect and to voice their beliefs.So they did, holding their hands high at times, holding each other's hands in prayers at others. They sang, the anguish in their faces starkly evident.Afterward, church members preferred not to talk to reporters. But Bunarto, who is a pastor to some of those on Flight QZ8501, did.He acknowledges the struggles these Mawar Sharon members, not to mention scores of other families, are facing. They may not understand why the plane went down. They may have trouble waiting for definitive word that their loved ones have been recovered, if that ever happens. And, despite their fervent faith, they might not grasp God's role in all of it.Bunarto says, "Some things that happen in our lives, sometimes we just don't understand what God really intends."That doesn't mean they lose faith.According to the pastor, "We just put our trust -- everything, completely -- in his will. Because he's going to bring everything (that is) the best in our life."
UPDATES-JAN 02,15-11:00AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-9:40am-Fisherman Mr Pendi saw a plane flying "really low" on Sunday (Dec 28), the day AirAsia QZ8501 went missing. He had been on the roof at the time. He is now in Jakarta trying to assist with investigations. Other fishermen our reporter Xabryna Kek spoke with said it was raining heavily that day, with strong gusts of wind from 5am. 10.30AM: There was a two-minute delay in response by Indonesia's air traffic control after the pilot of QZ8501 requested to fly at 38,000 ft, air traffic logs suggest, reports Bloomberg. 10.50 AM: Forty divers, including 20 deep sea experts arrived from Russia today, and the KNKT (National Transportation Safety Committee) chief voiced hope of a "significant result" in locating the body of the plane. 11.00AM: AirAsia confirmed the remains of #QZ8501 passengers and a crew member who were identified today, were returned to their families. One of them, Grayson Herbert Linaksita, was just 11 years old and he was travelling with his 12-year-old sister and parents for a holiday.
UPDATES-JAN 02,15-08:30AM
3 SHIPS ARE DEPLOYED TO LISTEN FOR THE PINGER FROM THE BLACK BOXES.SO THEY CAN GET THE BLACK BOX FROM QZ 8501-A320-200.The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) Bedok-class mine countermeasure vessel (MCMV) RSS Kallang has arrived at the search area and will focus on underwater search operations. This marks the arrival of all the assets the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has committed thus far at the search area. With the shift in focus to search efforts underwater, Victory-class missile corvette RSS Valour which has been focusing on surface search efforts, will depart for Singapore later today as part of the SAF’s rotational plan.To date, the Singapore Armed Forces has contributed more than 400 SAF personnel, two C-130 aircraft, two Super Puma helicopters, five navy ships and a 6-man Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team.FROM SINGAPORE DEFENCE MINISTRY. Indonesia's General Moeldoko says a total of 65 ships, 14 planes and 19 helicopters have been deployed in the multinational search operations for the AirAsia plane. BASARNAS says 30 bodies have been recovered - 10 bodies are en route to Surabaya, four are at Pangkalan Bun, eight are on board naval ships, and eight are in Surabaya. Waves reached as high as 5m today, making search operations challenging. Crew on board a South Korea P-3C Orion aircraft spotted six bodies in the QZ8501 search area, and three were still sitting in a row of plane seats with their seatbelts on, Detik reports.We have a radar screengrab from Indonesia's air traffic controller which showed the aeroplane climbing to 36,000 feet ... but its speed had dropped by about 200km/hr, which was not enough speed to sustain flight," Geoffrey Thomas, the Editor-in-Chief for Flight Ratings.com said to Channel NewsAsia. I dreamt that two of my teeth fell out. I searched on the internet to find out what it means and apparently it means that you will have a relative who will die," said a woman whose brother is on board QZ8501 to reporter Sumisha Naidu.
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UPDATES-JAN 02,15-07:30AM
Reddit small type from indonesia-#QZ8501 hunt to move underwater on Friday. 2:15am-Watching the live conference now. 3 more body identified. 3:25am-It is reported that America found 6 more bodies today.Until 4PM WIB, the search team have found and recovered 18 bodies. 4:00am-Live conference. Basarnas: We are now sure that the plane have crashed in Teluk Kumai. Head of Basarnas just referred to Russia as Uni Soviet (about them sending 2 planes to help). Basarnas asked civilians help to search the coast for any possible survivors. 6:10am-Total of body found until today: 22. 8 body have been evacuated, 10 still in Pangkalan Bun, 4 are still in the ships. 6:37am- South Korean's airplane spotted 3 bodies, still tied to the seatd.OK THEY OVIOUSLY FOUND THE PLANE NOW.SINCE THEY JUST FOUND 3 BODIES STRAPPED INTO THEIR SEATS.THIS SHOULD BRING THE TOTAL BODIES FROM THE QZ 8501-A320-200 TO 25 AND COUNTING.THERE IS A 2,000 SQUARE MILE AREA WERE THE AIR ASIA SEARCH IS GOING ON.EVEN THOUGH THE WEATHER IS STILL BBAD TODAY.THE SEARCH TEAMS ARE STILL FINDING BODIES ON SCENE.6:45AM-THEY JUST FOUND ANOTHER 5 BODIES BRING THE TOTAL TO 30 FOUND.THERE MUST BE ALL KINDS OF BODIES STRAPPED INTO THE SEATS.THE BODY COUNT SHOULD CLIMB QUICK FROM HERE ON IN.THEY SHOULD HAVE FOUND THE BLACK BOXES TO BY NOW.IF THE TAIL AND THE BODY OF THE PLANE ARE CLOSE TOGETHER.BUT SINCE ITS A 2,000 SQUARE MILE AREA.WHO KNOWS FOR SURE.Update on total number of bodies have been found: 30.AND REPORTS ARE SAYING THE SOUTH KOREANS HAVE FOUND PARTS OF THE FUSELAGE.
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PICTURE OF BLACK BOX.pic-businessinsider.comWHAT IS A BLACK BOX? - national geogtaphic channel
Often one of the first pieces of techno-speak that springs to mind when we hear of an aviation disaster - and a catch-all phrase popular with the media - is ‘Black Box,’ but how much do you really know about these vital pieces of equipment? Any commercial aeroplane or corporate jet is required to be equipped with a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder. It is these two items of separate equipment which we commonly refer to as a ‘Black Box.’ While they do nothing to help the plane when it is in the air, both these pieces of equipment are vitally important should the plane crash, as they help crash investigators find out what happened just before the crash.Often, for example when a plane crashes into the sea, as happened with the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182 by Sikh terrorists over the Atlantic Ocean just west of Ireland, investigators have very little to go on – on this specific occasion the plane crashed before the pilot could even issue a mayday signal and much of the debris sank into the sea, leaving few clues.Today, the Black Box is still just as vitally important in helping piece together the causes of a plane crash, as seen by the discovery of the Black Box in the Mexico plane crash that killed fourteen, including the interior minister of Mexico on 4th November, 2008.To help locate the cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder in the aftermath of a plane crash that occurs at sea, each recorder has a device fitted to it known as an Underwater Locator Beacon (ULB). The device is activated as soon as the recorder comes into contact with water and it can transmit from a depth as deep as 14,000 feet. Also, to help investigators find them; a Black Box is not actually black at all, but bright orange.All recorders undergo countless tests. For example, one Black Box recorder, the L-3 FA 2100 underwent testing that includes exposure to a 1,110°C fire for an hour and 260°C heat for 10 hours. It is also able to operate between -55° to +70°C and it can carries a minimum 25 hours of flight data.
WHO INVENTED THE BLACK BOX?
The Black Box was first invented by a young Australian scientist named Dr. David Warren. While Warren was working at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory in Melbourne in the mid-1950s he was involved in the accident investigation surrounding the mysterious crash of the world’s first jet-powered commercial aircraft, the Comet. Realising that it would have been useful for investigators if there had been a recording of what had happened on the plane just before the crash, he got to work on a basic flight data recorder. The first demonstration unit was produced in 1957, but it was not until 1960, after an unexplained plane crash in Queensland, that Australia became the first country in the world to make the Black Box mandatory for all commercial aircraft.
THE COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER
The main purpose of the Cockpit Voice Recorder is, unsurprisingly, to record what the crew say and monitor any sounds that occur within the cockpit. While investigators might be interested in any witty banter between pilots that went on just before an explosion or plane malfunction, trained investigators are keen to pick up on sounds such as engine noise, stall warnings or emergency pings and pops. Investigators are so skilled that they are then able to work out crucial flight information such as the speed the plane was travelling and engine rpm and can sometimes pinpoint the cause of a crash from the very sounds the plane was making before it crashed. The Cockpit Voice Recorder is also extremely important for determining the timing of events as it contains information such as communication between the crew and ground control and other aircraft. The Cockpit Voice Recorder is usually located in the tail of a plane.
THE FLIGHT DATA RECORDER
Of equal, if not more significance to the Cockpit Voice Recorder, is the Flight Data Recorder. This piece of equipment is essential to the work of Air Crash Investigators as it records the many different operating functions of a plane all at once, such as the time, altitude, airspeed and direction the plane is heading. But these are just the primary functions of the recorder, in fact, modern Flight Data Recorders are able to monitor countless other actions undertaken by the plane, such as the movement of individual flaps on the wings, auto-pilot and fuel gauge. Information stored in the Flight Data Recorder of a plane that has crashed is invaluable for investigators in their search for determining what caused a specific crash. The data stored on the recorders helps Air Crash Investigators generate computer video reconstructions of a flight, so that they can visualise how a plane was handling shortly before a crash.The Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder are invaluable tools for Air Crash Investigators worldwide and will continue to play a major role in finding out the causes of aviation accidents, as well as offering plane manufacturers and government’s considerable ideas to help make air travel as safe as possible.
THE FUTURE OF THE BLACK BOX
As technology continues to develop it is likely that Black Boxes, or flight data recorders, will become more and more sophisticated and more reliable, giving Air Crash Investigators more to go on when painstakingly trying to piece together what caused a plane crash.Potentially, the humble MP3 player – adored by music fans the world over - could become part of the flight data recording software. In 2007, US light aircraft manufacturer LoPresti Speed Merchants announced that it planned to fully integrate the device as flight data recorder on all of its Fury piston aircraft. The company believes that if suitable software was used then MP3s would be capable of recording over 500 hours of flight time data.
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Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck-Reuters-By Fergus Jensen and Gayatri Suroyo-JAN 2,14-YAHOONEWS
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, but bad weather was again hindering the search for the plane and the black box flight recorders that should reveal why it crashed. Officials said more than 30 bodies have now been recovered, along with pieces of the broken-up plane, in the Indonesian-led search for Flight QZ8501 that is concentrated on 1,575 square nautical miles of the northern Java Sea.Strong winds and heavy seas have stopped divers from looking for the fuselage of the Airbus A320-200, which plunged into the water on Sunday while en route from Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board."The waves could reach five meters this afternoon. Higher than yesterday," said air force Puma helicopter pilot Flight Captain Tatag Onne, who has been flying missions to recover bodies and debris from the sea."We look for breaks in the clouds where conditions improve so that we can approach. Yesterday, when we went to collect a body from the sea we couldn't because the body was being rolled by waves. Sometimes we could see it, sometimes we couldn't."The multinational search operation based in Pangkalan Bun, the town in southern Borneo closest to the search area, was bolstered on Friday by experts from France's BEA accident investigation agency, which attends all Airbus crashes.Officials said the French team's hydrophones - sophisticated underwater acoustic detection devices - and towed sonar equipment brought by other international experts could not be used on Friday because of high waves."The sea state has to be calm," General Sunarbowo Sandi of Indonesia's search and rescue agency said. "We cannot operate it in poor weather."But naval vessels from Indonesia, the United States and Singapore with in-built anti-submarine capabilities were using sonar to sweep the sea floor, he added.
STALL THEORY
The cause of the crash - the first suffered by the AirAsia group since the budget operator began flying in 2002 - is unexplained. Investigators are working on a theory that the plane stalled as it climbed steeply to avoid a storm about 40 minutes into a flight that should have lasted two hours.Officials earlier said it may take up to a week to find the black boxes, which investigators hope will unravel the sequence of events in the cockpit during the doomed jet's final minutes.Even in bad weather, however, the search for the AirAsia plane is less technically challenging than the two-year search for an Air France jet that crashed into deep Atlantic waters in 2009, or the fruitless hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that disappeared last year.Given Flight QZ8501 crashed in shallow seas, experts say finding the boxes should not be difficult if its locator beacons, with a range of 2,000 to 3,000 meters (6,560 to 9,800 ft) and a battery life of about 30 days, are working.Twenty-two bodies have been recovered from the sea, Supriadi, mission co-ordinator for the Indonesian search and rescue agency, told a news conference. Debris such as luggage, an emergency slide and a life jacket has also been found.The bodies are being taken in numbered coffins to Surabaya, where relatives of the victims, most of whom were Indonesian, have gathered. Authorities have been collecting DNA from relatives to help identify the bodies.The first funeral one of the crash victims was held on Thursday, and on Friday officials said the remains of three more had been identified, including a flight attendant.
"UNBELIEVABLY" STEEP CLIMB
The plane was traveling at 32,000 ft (9,753 meters) and the pilots had asked to climb to 38,000 ft to avoid bad weather just before contact was lost. When air traffic controllers granted permission to fly at 34,000 ft a few minutes later, they got no response.A source close to the investigation said radar data appeared to show the aircraft made an "unbelievably" steep climb before it crashed, possibly pushing it beyond the A320's limits."It appears to be beyond the performance envelope of the aircraft," he said.Online discussion among pilots has centered on unconfirmed secondary radar data from Malaysia that suggested the aircraft was climbing at a speed of 353 knots, about 100 knots too slow, and that it might have stalled.The Indonesian captain, a former air force fighter pilot, had 6,100 flying hours on the A320 and the plane last underwent maintenance in mid-November, according to Indonesia AirAsia, which is 49 percent owned by Malaysia- based AirAsia.Three airline disasters involving Malaysian-affiliated carriers in less than a year have dented confidence in the country's aviation industry and spooked travelers.Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew and has not been found. On July 17, the same airline's Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.On board Flight QZ8501 were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain. The co-pilot was French.(Additional reporting by Charlotte Greenfield, Cindy Silviana, Michael Taylor, Nilufar Rizki, Kanupriya Kapoor, Nicholas Owen, Adriana Nina Kusuma in JAKARTA, Jane Wardell in SYDNEY and Anshuman Daga in SINGAPORE; Writing by Jane Wardell and Alex Richardson; Editing by Michael Perry, Paul Tait, Robert Birsel)
AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501-AS OF 1 JANUARY 2015 20:00 HRS (GMT+7)-AIRASIA
SURABAYA, 1st JANUARY 2015 – AirAsia Indonesia wishes to update on the development of the on-going search and rescue mission of flight QZ 8501.The Disaster Victim Identification Police Department of Republic of Indonesia (DVI POLRI) today confirmed that the remains of one passenger on board QZ 8501 was identified as Hayati Luthfi Hamid (female). The confirmation was announced upon matching forensic and ante-mortem tests with the DNA evidence submitted by the families.Sunu Widyatmoko, Chief Executive Officer AirAsia Indonesia handed the remains to her family at a ceremony held at Bhayangkara Hospital, Surabaya.Sunu said, “On behalf of everyone at AirAsia, we extend our profound condolences to the family and friends of late Hayati Luthfi Hamid. AirAsia will support everything that the family may need during these difficult times.”Earlier today, BASARNAS also confirmed that a total of six out of seven remains of QZ 8501 passengers which were recovered in Karimata Strait had been transported in Bhayangkara Hospital this morning for immediate identification by Disaster Victim Identificiation Police Department of Republic of Indonesia (DVI POLRI).DVI team are now working on thorough identification which includes DNA check and forensics examination.Meanwhile, the search and rescue effort still continues. Indonesian Minister of Transportation has deployed 5 additional vessels to the searching area. To date, there are more than 90 vessels and aircraft from numerous countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, United States, involved in the operation.Further information will be released as soon as it becomes available.Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families and friends of our passengers and colleagues on board QZ8501.
QZ8501: Tough weather condition hampers fifth day of SAR mission-Astro Awani | Updated: January 01, 2015-ASTRO AWANI
KUALA LUMPUR: The Search and Rescue (SAR) mission of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 which entered into its fifth day on Thursday is expected to be tough based on the rough sea and weather condition.
Malaysian Chief of Navy Admiral Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Jaafar via his Twitter handle stated that the visibility was limited to only five nautical miles.Abdul Aziz had earlier informed that the search area which was set for KD Pahang is at Sector 2 while KD Lekir and Lekiu is at Sector 4.Abdul Aziz also informed that a helicopter had been provided by KD Lekiu for rescue mission at the designated sectors.He added that the search area had also been widened to 13,500 nautical miles on Thursday compared to 6,160 nautical miles on Wednesday.The northern sector has been divided into two sectors which are monitored by the Navy.The sector which is located nearest to Pontianak, Kalimantan meanwhile is monitored by the Republic of Singapore Navy.
QZ8501: Name tag found on a body wearing stewardess uniform-Astro Awani | Updated: January 01, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR: Among the seven bodies of AirAsia's flight QZ8501 retrieved so far, one was found with a name tag on her stewardess uniform.The body with the tag ‘Khairunisa Haidar’ was also wearing a ring and an Alexandre Christie branded watch.Meanwhile, AirAsia Indonesia chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko confirmed that of the seven bodies found, one is of a AirAsia stewardess.The identity of name of the stewardess could however not be confirmed.“It is true we had received the information that one of the bodies found is a crew member, a stewardess. On the identity, we are still waiting for identification from the authorities,” he told Kompas.com.He said, as of now, the issue of compensation has yet to be discussed as AirAsia is currently focusing on the search and rescue mission. Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi’s name is on the QZ8501 passenger manifest.The Airbus A320-200 carrying 162 passengers and crew members from Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday.It was scheduled to land in Singapore at 8.20am.There were 149 Indonesians passengers onboard together with three South Koreans, and one each from Singapore, Malaysia and United Kingdom.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: First victim positively identified as Surabaya teacher-January 1, 2015 - 9:56PM -Michael Bachelard-Indonesia correspondent for Fairfax Media-The Sydney Morning Herald
Disaster Victim Identification crews have positively identified victim 001 of AirAsia's crashed flight QZ8501.Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, 47, an elementary school teacher from Surabaya, was travelling to Singapore for a holiday with her daughter, husband and mother-in-law when the plane crashed with 162 people on board on December 28.Shortly after the positive identification, an ambulance backed up to the police morgue in Surabaya, the police chief said a few words, and Ms Hayati's body and possessions were handed over first to AirAsia chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko, who handed them directly to Ms Hayati's family.At that moment, the heavens opened and rain belted down as two female relatives stood pouring tears at the rear of the police station. They were comforted by the mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini. Another body was found late on Thursday, and was delivered from the boat to the port at Pangkalanbun, Borneo, the closest port to the crash site. This brings the total to eight bodies recovered from the crash. One has been identified, five are at the police morgue in Surabaya awaiting identification — two females and three males — and two have not yet been airlifted from Pangkalanbun to Surabaya.Police disaster investigation chief Budiyono announced late on Thursday that a meeting of forensic experts had made the positive identification of Ms Hayati based on fingerprint evidence, as well as items of jewellery and identity documents found on the body.Attempts to positively identify body 002 - a young man - have so far failed.A neighbour told local media that Ms Hayati and her husband, Djoko Suseno, a used car dealer, had planned to travel to Mecca with their daughter to fulfil the Haj pilgrimage, but that the fifth grade girl had wanted to take a holiday to Singapore first.Ms Hayati's daughter, husband and mother-in-law are now missing, presumed dead.
No news has emerged from the dive site about 105 nautical miles off Pangkalanbun the island of Borneo, where changeable weather may have thwarted once more hopes that divers would be able to access the site of the wreckage for the first time.A Singapore-based ship with sophisticated under-sea sonar also arrived on Wednesday and may have more luck mapping the dive site.Weather reports late on Thursday also suggested the weather was clearing up at the site.
AirAsia Flight QZ8501: Plane may have landed on water, overcome by high seas: experts-Published on Jan 1, 2015 7:12 PM-The Straits Times
JAKARTA (AFP) - As search teams hunt for the black boxes of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, analysts say the pilot may have managed to make an emergency water landing, only for the plane to be overcome by high seas.The Airbus A320-200 left the Indonesian city of Surabaya early Sunday and disappeared from radar over the Java Sea during a storm, but it failed to send the transmissions normally emitted when a plane crashes or is submerged.Experts say this suggests the experienced former air force pilot, Captain Iriyanto, conducted an emergency water landing which did not have a destructive impact."The emergency locator transmitter (ELT) would work on impact, be that land, sea or the sides of a mountain, and my analysis is it didn't work because there was no major impact during landing," said Dudi Sudibyo, a senior editor of aviation magazine Angkasa. "The pilot managed to land it on the sea's surface," he added.The plane, carrying 162 people to Singapore, was cruising at a height of 32,000 feet when the pilot requested a change of course to avoid storms.Although permission was granted to turn left, the pilot was not immediately allowed to ascend owing to heavy air traffic, and the plane disappeared from radar soon afterwards. Some analysts have suggested the plane stalled because it was travelling too slowly or climbed too steeply. It is unclear why there was no mayday distress signal from the cockpit.Indonesia's search team scoured the sea for more than 48 hours before the first debris was spotted off the island of Borneo after a tip-off from fishermen.So far the search team has found eight bodies which appear to be intact."The conclusions I have come to so far are that the plane did not blow up mid-air, and it did not suffer an impact when it hit a surface, because if it did so then the bodies would not be intact," Chappy Hakim, a former air force commander, told AFP.The fuselage is also thought to be largely intact after aerial searchers saw a "shadow" on the seabed, where operations are now being focused.An emergency exit door and an inflatable slide were among the first items recovered by the search team, suggesting the first passengers may have started the evacuation process once the plane landed on water.Former transport minister Jusman Syafii Djamal was convinced the discovery of the floating exit door meant "someone had opened it".Passengers may have been waiting for a flight attendant to inflate a life raft when a high wave hit the nose and sank the plane, Mr Djamal added."High waves may have hit the plane, the nose, and sunk the plane."Flight safety standards require that all passengers can be evacuated from a plane in 90 seconds. The cause and more details of the crash will remain unclear until investigators find the all-important black boxes, which will answer questions such as why the underwater locator beacon did not work.Experts from France and Singapore have joined Indonesian transport safety investigators in their hunt for wreckage of the plane operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysia-based AirAsia which previously had a good safety record.If found, the cockpit voice recorder should detail the conversations of the pilots for the whole of the short flight and reveal their last moments."We can only find out from the black box," said Sudibyo.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: final communications from pilot of missing plane revealed-December 30, 2014 -Michael Bachelard-Indonesia correspondent for Fairfax Media-The Sydney Morning Herald
Surabaya: The final communications between the pilot of ill-fated flight QZ8501 and air traffic control have been revealed as Indonesian naval vessels moved late last night to check new reports of an oil slick in the search zone.The strain meanwhile has begun to show on some families, who expressed frustration with AirAsia's chief executive Tony Fernandes and the chief pilot in closed meetings on Monday.Indonesian state navigation operator AirNav said late on Monday that the Airbus 320-200 captain, Iriyanto, had requested permission at 6.12am local time on Sunday to turn left to avoid a storm.The request was granted and the plane turned left seven miles. The captain then requested to be able to climb saying: "Request to higher level," according to AirNav standards and safety director Wisnu Darjono, as quoted by the Jakarta Post.The air traffic controller responded: "Intended to what level?", to which Iriyanto indicated he wanted to go to 38,000 feet.But there were six planes in the area at the time, another AirNav spokesman said, so, after consulting with the destination airport, Changi in Singapore, air traffic control told QZ8501 it could only go to 34,000 feet."But when we informed the pilot of the approval at 6.14am, we received no reply," Mr Wisnu said.According to earlier timelines, all communication between the plane and Jakarta was lost three minutes later, and at 6.18am, it went off the radar entirely. Indonesian search and rescue agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said yesterday the plane was likely "at the bottom of the sea".Indonesian navy vessel Pattimura was late last night making its way to a location near Bangka Belitung Island to check reports from an Indonesian air force plane of an oil slick on the ocean.It was one of a number of leads in the search zone on Monday, one of which came from an Australian PC-3 Orion dispatched from Darwin in a different part of the rescue area, closer to Kalimantan. Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said ships had checked that area out and had found nothing, and vice-president Jusuf Kalla said nothing conclusive had been drawn from the Australian aircraft's report. Australian Defence officials referred all queries to Indonesia.A list released by the Indonesian search and rescue agency on Monday shows five helicopters, 10 fixed-wing aircraft (including two Australian Orions — one possibly on standby only), and 16 ships have joined the search.At Surabaya airport, some of the relatives of the 162 people on the flight began to express anger at AirAsia executives over answers they considered inadequate. Relatives wanted to know why the departure time of QZ8501 had been brought forward from 7.20am to 5.20am on Sunday. They were told it was just a routine change.Some were seen gesticulating during a closed meeting with Mr Fernandes, and parents said outside that they did not know why, in the face of such bad weather, the flight had not been delayed or cancelled."It seems like the answer to a lot of the questions asked is just repeating 'We lost contact'," said Z. Effendy the uncle of 20-year-old trainee flight assistant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi."The replies were just to humour us," said the missing woman's father, Haidar Fauzi. "They give you the answer they think you want to hear just to keep you calm."Both men said they still hoped for the best, but were realistic enough to expect the worst: "We knew the risk our daughter was taking with this job, so we're prepared," Mr Haidar told Fairfax Media.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: 5 things about Java Sea, where search for plane is taking place-Published on Dec 28, 2014 11:31 PM-The Straits Times
AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 reportedly lost contact with air traffic control over the Java Sea, between the islands of Kalimantan and Java.The Indonesian air force said two of its planes had been dispatched to scour an area of the Java Sea, southwest of Pangkalan Bun in Kalimantan province.
Here are five things to know about the area:
1. Java Sea is a part of the western Pacific Ocean between the Indonesian islands of Java and Borneo. It is bordered by Borneo on the north, Java on the south, Sumatra on the west, and the Flores and Bali seas on the east. It is linked to the Indian Ocean by the Sunda Strait.
2. It has shallow waters, with an average depth of about 46 metres. It covers a total surface area of 167,000 square miles, or about 603 Singapores (Singapore's land area is about 277 square miles).
3. The area is mainly influenced by monsoon climate. The rainy monsoon, which occurs between mid-December and March, is characterised by very windy periods with frequent rainfalls lasting for days. The dry monsoon occurs from June to September.
4. There have been several incidents involving planes and ships in the area.
On Jan 1, 2007, a plane of the now-defunct Adam Air lost contact with air traffic control while it was flying over the Java Sea. The Boeing 737-400, which carried 102 people mostly from Indonesia, was on its way from Surabaya to Manado.Parts of the plane were found only 10 days later off the west coast of Sulawesi. Investigators found that the pilots had accidentally disconnected the autopilot system while trying to fix a problem in the navigation instruments.In May 2009, an inter-island ferry caught fire in the Java Sea. Some 350 passengers and crew were rescued by a passing cargo ship.In December 2006, a crowded ferry broke apart and sank in the Java Sea during a violent storm, killing more than 400 people.In 1981, 580 people were killed when Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas II caught fire and sank in the area.
5. Wrecks of ships are reportedly still in the Java Sea, which is also a popular underwater dive spot.
It was the scene of one of the costliest naval battles of World War II, dubbed the Battle of the Java Sea. The naval forces of the Netherlands, Britain, Australia, and the United States were nearly destroyed trying to defend Java from Japanese attack.In August this year, the US Navy confirmed that a wreck found at the bottom of the Java Sea is the USS Houston, a cruiser sunk by the Japanese in World War II. The wreck is the final resting place of as many as 700 US sailors and marines.Wreck of a ship called Indono that sank in 1955 is also still in the Java Sea, near the waters of Karimunjawa, said reports.
