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_2.html (D-6)
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
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-happens-to-lost-and-christians.html
MISSING FLIGHT QZ 8501 AIR BUS A320-200-pic-Indianexpress.com
SINGAPORE LOOKS FOR BLACK BOX OF QZ 8501-A320-200-pic-singapore defence ministry
SEARCH AREA AND QZ 8501 HAPPENINGS-pic-BBC
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-08:15PM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-8PM: Recap of what happened on Saturday - Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS confirmed that 30 bodies have been recovered, with six identified. Four parts of the missing QZ8501 airplane have also been found. Weather in the search and rescue area for Sunday (Jan 4) is expected to be much better, which should aid in the recovery process.8.15PM: Twenty-seven ships have been assigned search vectors for Sunday's search and rescue efforts. Four of them - KD Lekir, KD Lekiu, KN Mitra Utama and RSS Supreme - have been assigned to the "Most Probable Area", where the main plane wreckage could be, according to Malaysia's Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar in his tweet.
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-11:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-7:30AM-Channel NewsAsia's Lam Shushan is on board the RSS Persistence and gives a glimpse of the rough sea conditions #QZ8501 recovery teams are facing. 7.53AM: Channel NewsAsia's Lam Shushan is on board the RSS Persistence and gives a glimpse of the rough sea conditions recovery teams are facing. 8.25AM: Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS has been leading the search effort. We find out more about the agency that has been at the centre of the search operations in Indonesia. 8:30AM-Search efforts for #AirAsia flight #QZ8501 are ongoing, amidst stormy weather, strong winds and rough seas.Five RSN ships have been deployed for the search operation - a frigate RSS Supreme, missile corvette RSS Valour and landing ship tank RSS Persistence for surface search, a mine countermeasure vessel RSS Kallang, MV Swift Rescue, as well as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) team to conduct underwater search. 8.34AM: The RSS Valour is on its way back to Singapore. The navy ship was originally scheduled to return to Singapore yesterday, but was re-assigned after possible sighting by a serviceman on a Super Puma helicopter, according to a statement by the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. The RSS Valour is now on its way back to Singapore after being deployed for "about a week", the Republic of Singapore Navy said. We've recovered 30 bodies and identified 4 from #Airasia850. Slow process, hope we can speed the process ahead. 9.05AM: Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces General Moeldoko confirms that the number of bodies found remains at 30, while 4 have been identified. He hopes the search process ahead will be faster. 9.29AM: Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS confirms four parts of the aircraft have been found. 9.41AM: A luggage bag and a part of an aircraft overhead compartment were recovered this morning by RSS Persistence in the Singapore Navy's designated search area in the Java Sea, near Kalimantan. The part of the overhead compartment measured 102 x 75cm. 10.00AM: Investigations on what happened to the plane are focused on victims' autopsy results, but some families said they do not approve of autopsies on their loved ones. 10.50AM: In its latest statement, AirAsia said Disaster Victim Investigation experts from Singapore and South Korea will be supporting Indonesia in identifying victims. THE WEATHER IS TO BAD.THE REST OF THE DAY IS CALLED OFF FROM SEARCHING.
IDENTIFIED BODIES FROM QZ 8501-A320-200 CRASHED PLANE
FLIGHT CREW
Pilot:
Co-Pilot
Engineer:
Flight Attendants:Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, was 22 years old-Indonesian
Flight Attendants:
Flight Attendants:
Flight Attendants:
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
Hendra Gunawan Syawal, was 23 years of age-Indonesian
Meiji Thejakusuma, was 44 years of age-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
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-08:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-6:00AM-6.00PM: In response to media queries, Changi Airport Group (CAG) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) confirm that AirAsia Indonesia had approval to run daily flights from Surabaya to Singapore, even though the airline had flown on Sundays without authorisation from Indonesian authorities.CAAS and CAG say the approval was based on air traffic rights under an air services agreement and available slots at Changi Airport. The airline was plying the route four times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.Airlines need to get approval for flight schedules by civil aviation authorities at each end, separately, CAAS and CAG say. 8:07AM-THEY MAY HAVE FOUND THE MAIN PLANE PARTS NOW.THE REPORTS SAY THE SEARCH CREWS DISCOVERED 4 BIG OBJECTS IN THE JAVA SEA.EVEN THOUGH THE WAVES ARE RAGING AND THE SEA IS STURED UP BADLY.AND THERE SAYING THERE IS ALL KINDS OF GARBAGE IN THE JAVA SEA ALSO.ANOTHER REASON THIS HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE FINDING THE MISSING PLANES DEBRIS.
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-07:00AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-3.50AM: Two more passengers - Hendra Gunawan Syawal and The Meiji Thejakusuma - have been identified.AirAsia Indonesia has also confirmed that its Surabaya-Singapore route has been suspended at the government's request. The government is investigating and evaluating, and AirAsia has said it will fully cooperate, reports Channel New Asia's Sumisha Naidu. 4.04AM: A Russian amphibious plane - a BE-200 - which is designed for search and rescue and maritime patrol, has arrived in Pangkalan Bun to help in the search, reports Xabryna Kek.A Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team comprising six officers from the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and two forensic experts from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) departed earlier today for Surabaya to assist Indonesia in identifying victims of the recent AirAsia QZ8501 tragedy.Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Mr Masagos Zulkifli joined family members to send off the DVI team at Changi Airport.Superintendent (Supt) Sng May Yen, who was also part of the DVI team deployed to Phuket during the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami, said that the team will do our best and try to help as many families as possible. 4.06AM: A Disaster Victim Identification team comprising six officers from the Singapore Police Force and two forensic experts from the Health Sciences Authority left earlier today for Surabaya to assist Indonesia in identifying victims. 4.18AM: Russian authorities speak to the media after the arrival of the BE-200. The aircraft is equipped with instruments that can detect small debris on the surface and the borrom of the sea. The plane is also equipped with a special sonar and acoustic system which can detect beacons from the black box.The Russians will also deploy 22 of its deep water divers, and a submersible vehicle weighing 500kg. The submer sible vehicle will be able to operate under strong currents and high waves, they said. 4.49AM: Of 162 passengers and crew on board, almost a fifth have been found. 12 more bodies will be sent to Surabaya for identification soon, Devianti Faridz reports. 7AM: Air Asia Indonesia had approval to run daily flights from Surabaya to Singapore, even though the airline had flown on Sundays without authorisation from Indonesian authorities, CAAS and Changi Airport Group confirm.
AirAsia Didn’t Have Permission to Fly Route on Day of Crash-Airline Was Only Permitted to Fly From Surabaya to Singapore on Four Days of the Week, Indonesia Says-ByI Made Sentana And Ben Otto-Updated Jan. 3, 2015 12:55 a.m. ET-WALL STREET JOURNAL
JAKARTA, Indonesia— AirAsia didn’t have permission to fly from Surabaya to Singapore on the Sunday morning that Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea, Indonesian officials said Saturday.Shortly after Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said it had detected two large parts of the aircraft on the seabed, transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata said the airline was only permitted to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from late 2014 to early 2015.“So AirAsia has committed a violation of the route that has been given to them,” Mr. Barata told The Wall Street Journal. He said the company’s flights from Surabaya to Singapore had consequently been suspended on Friday.Tommy Soetomo, the head of state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I, said AirAsia had a slot to fly on Sundays. But Mr. Barata said that information was outdated and that AirAsia should have returned the slot to the government. Before October, AirAsia had permission to fly daily to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, he said. He didn’t say why the number of flights was cut.Indonesia’s acting director general of aviation, Djoko Murjatmodjo, added that the Transportation Ministry is investigating why AirAsia was flying the route outside its permitted schedule, which covers the period Oct. 26 to March 28. The probe will include an internal investigation of the ministry, he said.At a news conference in Surabaya on Saturday, AirAsia Indonesia’s chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko said the company would fully cooperate with the government investigation. He said the management of AirAsia won’t comment further until the investigation is complete.
Mr. Barata said the investigation will also cover other airlines.The Airbus A320, which had 162 people on board, lost contact with air traffic control early Sunday morning midway between Surabaya and Singapore. Saturday, the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, Bambang Soelistyo, said sonar scans had identified two objects in about 30 meters of water that represent the main part of the aircraft.“With the oil slick that we found and the discovery of the two big objects, I can confirm that this is the big part of the AirAsia plane we have been looking for all this time,” Mr. Soelistyo said, adding that a remotely operated vehicle would be sent to take pictures of the objects, though rough weather is hampering the deployment. Some bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea and a handful of burials and memorial services have taken place, but the majority of passengers and crew are still unaccounted for as rough weather has slowed the search and recovery process.Budi Sampurna, a professor at the University of Indonesia and member of the forensic team responsible for identifying bodies from the crash, said one autopsy had already taken place, but he didn’t comment on the cause of death. He also didn’t say how many other autopsies were planned. Mr. Soelistyo said Friday evening that a total of 30 bodies had been recovered. Earlier Friday, searchers brought the bodies of 10 victims to shore. Following a ceremonial military send-off, they were flown to Surabaya.The bodies were placed in white coffins with a bouquet of flowers on top. Each coffin had a sign bearing the recovery number of the body inside, 009 through 018. The coffins were brought by ambulance to the airport. Then, each was carried by eight men in military formation to a waiting Indonesian Air Force airplane.U.S. Navy vessels are involved in the search operation, with the USS Fort Worth joining the USS Sampson in the hunt for wreckage on Saturday. Twenty-two Russian divers, a small submarine and a Beriev Be-200 amphibious aircraft also arrived on Saturday, said Alexander Shilin, the country’s deputy ambassador to Indonesia.“This is the most sophisticated equipment that can search both the surface of the water and the bottom of the sea,” Mr. Shilin said of the Beriev Be-200.The USS Sampson has recovered at least a dozen bodies since it joined the search operation on Monday. The bodies were among those sent by helicopter to Pangkalan Bun on Friday.Lt. Lauren Cole, deputy public affairs officer for the 7th Fleet, said that weather conditions in the area where the Sampson has been operating have hampered operations but the ship’s two Romeo search-and-rescue helicopters have been able to operate daily.Lt. Cole reported waves of two to four feet in the Sampson’s operation area, significantly less than the waves of about 14 feet this week by Indonesian search and rescue officials.The AirAsia plane didn’t issue a mayday call before disappearing less than an hour into its trip near a group of intense storm cells.On Friday night, AirAsia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes traveled to the city of Palembang, South Sumatra, for the funeral of flight attendant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, whose body was among the first recovered. She was found wearing her uniform and a nametag.“I am arriving in Surabaya to take Nisa home,” Mr. Fernandes said on Twitter. “I cannot describe how I feel. There are no words.”—Richard C. Paddock, Anita Rachman, Jake Maxwell Watts and Gaurav Raghuvanshi contributed to this article.
Searchers find 'big parts' of crashed AirAisa QZ8501 plane-UPDATED: 03 Jan 2015 15:24-CHANNEL ASIA NEWS
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: Recovery teams have found two big parts of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which crashed into the sea last weekend with 162 people on board, Indonesia's top search official said Saturday (Jan 3).News of the discovery came after Indonesia's transport ministry said the plane had been flying on an unauthorised schedule when it crashed, and the airliner has now been suspended from flying the route from the city of Surabaya to Singapore.The parts of the plane were found in the Java Sea off the island of Borneo late Friday night, raising hopes that the remaining bodies and the black boxes, crucial to determining the cause of the crash, will soon be located. "With the discovery of an oil spill and two big parts of the aircraft, I can assure you these are the parts of the AirAsia plane we have been looking for," search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo told reporters.So far recovery teams have found 30 bodies of those killed when the Airbus A320-200 went down early Sunday during a storm, and Soelistyo said they were now sending divers to the spot where plane parts had been found to try to recover the remaining bodies. "The main focus today is to find and evacuate victims," he said.The director general of air transport, Djoko Murjatmodjo, said AirAsia's permit to fly the route of Flight 8501 had been frozen because the plane had been on an unauthorised schedule. "It violated the route permit given, the schedule given, that's the problem," Murjatmodjo told AFP, adding that the permit for the route would be suspended until investigations were completed.A statement from transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata said AirAsia had not been permitted to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route on Sundays and had not asked to change its schedule. It was unclear how the airliner, which has yet to officially respond to the ministry's statement, had been able to fly without the necessary authorisation.The plane was operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysia-based AirAsia, which previously had a solid safety record.Recovery teams, which have been hampered by rough weather in recent days, on Friday narrowed their search to an area of 45 by 35 nautical miles centred about 75 nautical miles southwest of Pangkalan Bun, a town in Central Kalimantan on Borneo.Search official S.B. Supriyadi in Pangkalan Bun said their Saturday operation would also comb coastal areas to see if bodies had drifted to shore, while their ability to send divers down would depend on sea currents and waves. "The visibility needs to be good as well because we need to pay attention to the divers' safety too," Supriyadi told AFP.Russia has sent in dozens of divers to help with the operations, as well as two planes, one amphibious, while French and Singaporean investigators are helping to locate the black boxes. The United States, Australia, South Korea and Malaysia are among other countries helping in the search effort.
HAMPERED BY STRONG CURRENT
Soelistyo said the larger of the two objects found on Friday night was about 10 metres by five metres. "As I speak we are lowering an ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) underwater to get an actual picture of the objects detected on the sea floor. All are at the depth of 30 metres," he said.He added however that the strong current was making it difficult to operate the ROV. Toos Sanitioso, an investigator from the KNKT (National Transportation Safety Committee), said he was hopeful they would find the black boxes in a few days. "It seems that they have found the major (plane) parts," he told reporters in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city.The families of victims have been preparing funerals as the bodies recovered are identified in Surabaya, where a crisis centre has been set up at a police hospital with facilities to store 150 bodies. Of the 162 passengers and crew on board, 155 were Indonesian, with three South Koreans, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman - co-pilot Remi Plesel. Ongko Gunawan, who lost his sister and brother-in-law and their child, expressed impatience as he waited for news. "We are exhausted and sick of it. Hopefully we can find the bodies quickly, now that there's also help from the foreign countries," he said.Before take-off, the pilot of Flight 8501 had asked for permission to fly at a higher altitude to avoid a storm, but the request was not approved due to other planes above him on the popular route, according to AirNav, Indonesia's air traffic control. In his last communication shortly before all contact was lost, he said he wanted to change course to avoid the menacing storm system.- AFP/by
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-02:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-12:20AM-Separately, the CEO of AirAsia Indonesia Sunu Widyatmoko declined to comment on the announced discovery of the wreckage of QZ8501. 1.00 AM: A transportation safety investigator says conflicting signals from too many ships may make the search for the QZ8501 black box harder, reports Channel NewsAsia's Sumisha Naidu. 1.25 AM: The health minister in Surabaya told a news conference at the crisis centre that forensics teams from across Indonesia are trying to identify the bodies retrieved so far from QZ8501, but only some are undergoing autopsies as some families have declined, citing religious or cultural reasons. 1.30AM: 12 bodies are leaving Pangkalan Bun for Surabaya - eight were flown in today, four from yesterday. Nine of the bodies are male, three female. 2.15AM: About 60 ships and 20 aircraft are involved in the search for QZ8501 debris and bodies today. A Russian amphibious plane will join the operation. The following map is from Malaysia's Chief of Navy.
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-12:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-8PM: A recap of what happened on Friday - 30 bodies have been retrieved so far; 65 ships, 14 planes and 19 helicopters have been deployed in a multinational search operation. The tail of the plane has been spotted at a depth of 29 metres said the commander of the Indonesian navy ship Bung Tomo. 8.10PM: The underwater search area as of Saturday measures 57 by 10 nautical miles, tweets Malaysia's Chief of Navy.#QZ8501:5 ships are tasked. 8.40PM: The search for bodies and debris has been repeatedly hampered by bad weather over the week and today is no different. Recovery teams are encountering rough seas with waves of up to 4 metres, and winds of 20 to 30 knots, Malaysia's Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar said on Twitter. 8.58PM: Late Friday, Indonesia's Transport Ministry announced it has suspended AirAsia's Surabaya-Singapore route for a violation of an agreement. AirAsia Indonesia is only allowed to ply that route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, but had done so on Sundays as well. The crashed flight had departed last Sunday (Dec 28).Affected passengers will have to be redirected via another flight, the ministry said. 9.09PM: The most probable cause of the AirAsia QZ8501 crash is icing in the cloud that damaged the plane engine, said the Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics in a 14-page report. 9.37PM: Spotted at the Pangkalan Bun airport - a reminder why hundreds from several countries are braving high winds and rough seas, combing the QZ8501 search site. A fifth of the people listed here have been found. 10:10PM-Here are photos of USS Fort Worth leaving Singapore to support AirAsia flight QZ8501 search efforts. USS Sampson is already on scene and has taken an active roll in the recovery efforts. So far the crew has pulled twelve bodies from the Java Sea and returned them to Indonesian officials in charge of the search operation. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Lauryn Dempsey/ Lt. Cmdr. Greg Adams). 10.13PM: The United States Navy's USS Fort Worth is expected to join the USS Sampson in the QZ8501 search area today. It left Singapore yesterday. 10.45PM: BREAKTHROUGH? The main wreckage of QZ8501 has been found, says the chief of Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS. Speaking in Jakarta, he said two big parts have been found at the bottom of the sea near Pangkalan Bun. The wreckage is lying at a depth of 30 metres. Oil spills have also been detected in the area. Search teams are currently deploying remotely operated vehicles to take a closer look at the wreckage before sending divers. High waves and strong current are still hampering search efforts. 10:50PM-Anxious family members at hotel asking why they weren't informed of briefings first.Rushing to crisis centre #QZ8501. 11.14PM: Relatives of people on board QZ8501 are asking AirAsia staff why they had to find out about the main wreckage discovery via television, Channel NewsAsia's Sumisha Naidu reports. 11.55PM: 7 bodies from QZ8501 have arrived at Pangkalan Bun airport. One more is on its way from a Malaysian ship, flown in by a Super Puma helicopter. Channel NewsAsia's Xabryna Kek who is on the scene says there appears to be debris being shifted from the choppers as well. 12.15AM: The strong current is making it difficult to control the remotely operated vehicle, lowered underwater to probe QZ8501 main wreckage find. The large objects detected measure 9.2m x 4.6m x 0.5m and 7.2m by 0.5m reports Detik. It has been a week since AirAsia QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic controllers with 162 people on board. Two big objects, believed to be the main wreckage of the plane have been detected.
QZ8501: Out of control-Geoffrey Thomas AirlineRatings.com-01 Jan 2015-New radar evidence shows QZ8501 was out of control and on a terrifying trajectory
Evidence is mounting that AirAsia flight QZ8501 encountered a freak weather event that sent it on a terrifying ride before it plummeted into the ocean.Radar play back of the plane’s flight path leaked by Indonesian authorities show it climbing at 9000ft a minute and then being slammed into a dive at 11,000ft a minute with bursts of up to 24,000ft a minute. But the plane’s forward speed was barely 100km/ hour.Earlier this week AirlineRatings.com broke the news that the plane was well above its assigned altitude and at a forward speed less than required to sustain flight.Controllers lost contact with the A320 just four minutes after its crew requested a deviation of their route to avoid storms.An A320 check captain told Airline Ratings.com that the leaked data was an accurate representation of Flt QZ8501. “If these figures are correct, QZ8501 was in a stall almost exactly equal to the parameters recorded on AF447,” he said. “The aircraft was out of control. It’s scary how similar to AF447 it looks.”Air France 447 was lost in the mid Atlantic in 2009. The French investigator found that the A330 crashed after inconsistencies between the airspeed measurements - due most likely to the A330’s pitot tubes being obstructed by ice – caused the autopilot to disconnect.It concluded that the crew reacted incorrectly and ultimately led the A330 to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover.AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes said that preliminary investigations suggest that the A320 encountered “very unique weather.”The Airbus A320 was flying between Surabaya and Singapore with 162 passengers and crew on Sunday when it disappeared off radar in 42 minutes into the flight.Indonesia navy divers have been searching the ocean floor for any sign of QZ8501 but bad weather hampered those efforts.And the outlook is getting worse with winds of up to 32km/hour whipping up 2 to 3 metre seas with white caps forecast over the next four days making spotting and recovery of debris difficult.On Wednesday an Indonesian official told CNN that a Navy ship using sonar diction equipment had found the plane but later Mr Fernandes discounted that claim.Separately French and Singaporean crash investigators have arrived to help in the recovery of the plane’s black boxes. Those investigators are using sensors to try and pick up a signal from the A320s emergency locator transmitter.A new passenger list released by the Indonesian Transport Ministry has revealed that 23 passengers, including two families, missed the flight – some due to a mix-up on the departure time.The original bookings for the flight totalled 177 made up of 157 adults, 20 children and four infants. Actual uplift was 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant.The crew were made up of two pilots, one engineer and four flight attendants.
Anxious wait for families as bodies of QZ8501 crash victims are identified-By Sumisha Naidu-UPDATED: 02 Jan 2015 21:28-cnasia
SURABAYA: As hours turn into days for the families of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash victims in Surabaya, bad news is better than none.Slowly, bodies are being brought to Surabaya and identified, and families are wondering whether their loved ones will be the next to arrive. The sister of QZ8501 passenger David Hartono said: "I hope we can find him soon. If we find him, we will bury him with my late father, (who passed away four years ago)."Police have asked family members to provide them with more information - anything that will help them quicken the Identification of the bodies retrieved from the Java Sea - where authorities suspect that the missing AirAsia flight had crashed.The sister of QZ8501 passenger David Hartono said she had premonitions of death in the weeks before the flight's disappearance. However, she never thought that her 23-year-old brother's trip to visit Singapore with his friends would end up like this. "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," she said.It is a difficult wait for them and other families here but many have no time for anger. Some have found solace in prayer, hoping divine intervention will bring them closer to closure.- CNA/ac
Recovery teams narrow AirAsia search-UPDATED: 02 Jan 2015 20:40-channelnewsasia
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 on Friday (Jan 2), hopeful they were closing in on the plane's crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.French and Singaporean investigators joined the hunt for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared from radar during a storm Sunday en route from Indonesia's second city of Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.The search teams have deployed side-scan sonar equipment to survey the seabed and pinger locators to fine-tune their search for the plane's black boxes, crucial to determining the why the plane crash into the Java Sea off Borneo.Rough weather has in recent days hampered the search for the plane's fuselage, which is believed to be in relatively shallow water of around 25-32 metres (82-105 feet).Search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said Friday's operation was focused on an area of 1,575 square nautical miles - a tenth of the size of Thursday's search - with 29 ships and 17 aircraft engaged in the operation."There are two main tasks in this priority sector: first, to locate the biggest part of the plane's body," he told a press conference. "The second task is to find the position of the black boxes, or flight recorders, which will be carried out by the KNKT (National Transportation Safety Committee) which start working today.""Divers are already on standby at the navy ship Banda Aceh to dive on that priority area to locate the body of the plane," he said, voicing hope for a "significant result". KNKT chief Tatang Kurniadi told AFP that 40 divers, including 20 deep sea experts, arrived on Friday from Russia to help, along with two planes, one amphibious.
EXTREME WEATHER
The search is now focused on an area of 45 by 35 nautical miles centred about 75 nautical miles southwest of Pangkalan Bun, a town in Central Kalimantan on Borneo.With the search area narrowing, Indonesian official S B Supriyadi said they were pressing on despite rough conditions, with high winds and 3-4 metre (10-13 foot) waves. "The search is still proceeding in systematic way, despite the extreme weather," he told a press conference.He said ships equipped with sonar may search through the night, but high waves were hampering the use of equipment to find the black boxes.Two South Korean Orion surveillance planes on Friday spotted six bodies, Indonesian air force spokesman Hadi Tjahjanto said in a press release. "After sweeping the area for more than two hours, at 11:58 the (Orions) found three bodies sitting in one row," he said, and another three just minutes later. They informed warships by radio and fired flares to indicate the location for retrieval, he said.
MORE VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
Relatives were preparing to hold funerals after three more victims were identified, including flight attendant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, who had recently posted an Instagram picture with the message "I love you from 38,000 ft" for her boyfriend."I'm arriving in Surabaya to take Nisa (Fauzi) home to Palembang. I cannot describe how I feel. There are no words," AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes tweeted.Also named was Grayson Herbert Linaksita, 11, who was travelling with his parents and 12-year-old sister for a holiday. His great-uncle Bagyono Linaksita, 73, told AFP was dreading breaking the news to the children's grandmother, who was on holiday in the Czech Republic."She doted on her two grandchildren and would send and fetch them from school every day," he said. "We have not told her the news that the whole family had died in a plane crash. Grayson was her favourite grandchild. She will certainly faint."A crisis centre for identifying the victims has been set up at a police hospital in Surabaya with facilities to store 150 bodies.Before take-off, the pilot of Flight 8501 had asked for permission to fly at a higher altitude to avoid a storm. But his request was not approved due to other planes above him on the popular route, according to AirNav, Indonesia's air traffic control.In his last communication, Captain Irianto, an experienced former air force pilot, said he wanted to change course to avoid the menacing storm system. Then all contact was lost, about 40 minutes after the plane had taken off.Of the 162 passengers and crew on board, 155 were Indonesian, with three South Koreans, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman - co-pilot Remi Plesel.The plane was operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysia-based AirAsia, which previously had a solid safety record. The crash came at the end of a disastrous year for Malaysian air travel.After the disappearance of Flight MH370 in March, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew, another Malaysia Airlines flight -- MH17 -- was shot down over Ukraine in July, killing all 298 on board.- AFP/ir
Airbus signs MoU with Honeywell and Safran to develop electric taxiing solution for the A320 Family
• Projected fuel savings and CO2 reductions up to four per cent per trip
• Providing A320 Family operators autonomy from pushback tractors
• Taxiing-related carbon and NOx emissions cut by more than half
18 December 2013 Press Release
As part of on-going research and development into future technology options, Airbus has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with EGTS International, a joint venture company between Safran and Honeywell Aerospace, to further develop and evaluate an autonomous electric pushback and taxiing solution for the A320 Family.The agreement marks the selection of EGTS International’s Electric Green Taxiing System to be evaluated as a new option on the A320 Family – referred to by Airbus as eTaxi. This option would allow the aircraft to push-back from the gate without a tug, taxi-out to the runway, and return to the gate after landing without operating the main engines.eTaxi will use the aircraft’s Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) to power electric motors fitted to the main landing gear wheels. The architecture will include the ability for pilots to keep full control from the cockpit over their aircraft’s speed and direction during taxi operations.Olivier Savin, EGTS Programme Vice President, Safran said: “We are extremely pleased to strengthen our relationship with Airbus, a key customer and industry leader in innovation. Through this agreement we are creating the ideal context to collaborate to best utilize our own landing gear systems expertise to develop a green taxiing solution for the A320 Family.”Brian Wenig, EGTS Programme Vice President, Honeywell Aerospace said: “Following our demonstration of the technology at this year’s Paris Airshow, this MoU marks the next critical milestone in the advancement of the Electric Green Taxiing System as an option for Airbus’ A320 Family, by securing Airbus’ support in the development of the system. Airbus will provide extremely valuable insight to facilitate a seamless integration into the aircraft.”Daniel Baubil, Airbus EVP, Head of A320 Family Programme said: “Today Airbus delivers the world’s most eco-efficient single-aisle aircraft – the A320 Family. This is the result of our permanent research for innovative enhancements to make our aircraft even more efficient and capable.” He adds: “We therefore look forward to working with our EGTS International expert partners – Honeywell and Safran – with whom we share the common view that the A320 Family is a natural fit for an electric taxiing capability.”The eTaxi option will offer several operational and environmental benefits for the A320 Family:· Per trip, the projected fuel savings and CO2 reductions would be approximately four percent;·It would contribute to significantly more efficient taxiing operations and save around two minutes of time on pushback; Taxiing-related carbon and nitrous oxide emissions would be cut by more than half.Over the next few months the partners will jointly develop and present a global commercial case and implementation plan to determine the feasibility of an electric taxiing solution for the A320 Family. To this end, Airbus and EGTS International are reinforcing their existing teams to finalize validation studies, define specifications and converge on market requirements for a fully tailored forward-fit and retrofit technological solution.To regularly enhance the A320 Family’s capabilities and performance, Airbus invests approximately 300 million euros annually in keeping the aircraft highly competitive and efficient. More than 10,000 A320 Family aircraft have been ordered and over 5,800 delivered to operators worldwide. With a record backlog of over 4,200 aircraft, the A320 Family reaffirms its position as the world’s best-selling single-aisle aircraft family.Safran is a leading international high- technology group with three core businesses: Aerospace (propulsion and equipment), Defence and Security. Operating worldwide, the Group has 62,500 employees and generated sales of 13.6 billion euros in 2012. Working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world or European leadership positions in its core markets. The Group invests heavily in research & development to meet the requirements of changing markets, including expenditures of 1.6 billion Euros in 2012. Safran is listed on NYSE Euronext Paris and is part of the CAC40 index. For more information please visit: www.safran-group.com-Honeywell is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; turbochargers; and performance materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the New York, London, and Chicago Stock Exchanges. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit: www.honeywell.com-Airbus is the world’s leading aircraft manufacturer of passenger airliners, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13,600 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Of these, more than 8,100 aircraft have been delivered. Airbus has design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain, and subsidiaries in the US, China, Japan and in the Middle East.
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_2.html (D-6)
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
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-happens-to-lost-and-christians.html
MISSING FLIGHT QZ 8501 AIR BUS A320-200-pic-Indianexpress.com
SINGAPORE LOOKS FOR BLACK BOX OF QZ 8501-A320-200-pic-singapore defence ministry
SEARCH AREA AND QZ 8501 HAPPENINGS-pic-BBC
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-08:15PM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-8PM: Recap of what happened on Saturday - Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS confirmed that 30 bodies have been recovered, with six identified. Four parts of the missing QZ8501 airplane have also been found. Weather in the search and rescue area for Sunday (Jan 4) is expected to be much better, which should aid in the recovery process.8.15PM: Twenty-seven ships have been assigned search vectors for Sunday's search and rescue efforts. Four of them - KD Lekir, KD Lekiu, KN Mitra Utama and RSS Supreme - have been assigned to the "Most Probable Area", where the main plane wreckage could be, according to Malaysia's Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar in his tweet.
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-11:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-7:30AM-Channel NewsAsia's Lam Shushan is on board the RSS Persistence and gives a glimpse of the rough sea conditions #QZ8501 recovery teams are facing. 7.53AM: Channel NewsAsia's Lam Shushan is on board the RSS Persistence and gives a glimpse of the rough sea conditions recovery teams are facing. 8.25AM: Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS has been leading the search effort. We find out more about the agency that has been at the centre of the search operations in Indonesia. 8:30AM-Search efforts for #AirAsia flight #QZ8501 are ongoing, amidst stormy weather, strong winds and rough seas.Five RSN ships have been deployed for the search operation - a frigate RSS Supreme, missile corvette RSS Valour and landing ship tank RSS Persistence for surface search, a mine countermeasure vessel RSS Kallang, MV Swift Rescue, as well as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) team to conduct underwater search. 8.34AM: The RSS Valour is on its way back to Singapore. The navy ship was originally scheduled to return to Singapore yesterday, but was re-assigned after possible sighting by a serviceman on a Super Puma helicopter, according to a statement by the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. The RSS Valour is now on its way back to Singapore after being deployed for "about a week", the Republic of Singapore Navy said. We've recovered 30 bodies and identified 4 from #Airasia850. Slow process, hope we can speed the process ahead. 9.05AM: Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces General Moeldoko confirms that the number of bodies found remains at 30, while 4 have been identified. He hopes the search process ahead will be faster. 9.29AM: Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS confirms four parts of the aircraft have been found. 9.41AM: A luggage bag and a part of an aircraft overhead compartment were recovered this morning by RSS Persistence in the Singapore Navy's designated search area in the Java Sea, near Kalimantan. The part of the overhead compartment measured 102 x 75cm. 10.00AM: Investigations on what happened to the plane are focused on victims' autopsy results, but some families said they do not approve of autopsies on their loved ones. 10.50AM: In its latest statement, AirAsia said Disaster Victim Investigation experts from Singapore and South Korea will be supporting Indonesia in identifying victims. THE WEATHER IS TO BAD.THE REST OF THE DAY IS CALLED OFF FROM SEARCHING.
IDENTIFIED BODIES FROM QZ 8501-A320-200 CRASHED PLANE
FLIGHT CREW
Pilot:
Co-Pilot
Engineer:
Flight Attendants:Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, was 22 years old-Indonesian
Flight Attendants:
Flight Attendants:
Flight Attendants:
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
Hendra Gunawan Syawal, was 23 years of age-Indonesian
Meiji Thejakusuma, was 44 years of age-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
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-08:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-6:00AM-6.00PM: In response to media queries, Changi Airport Group (CAG) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) confirm that AirAsia Indonesia had approval to run daily flights from Surabaya to Singapore, even though the airline had flown on Sundays without authorisation from Indonesian authorities.CAAS and CAG say the approval was based on air traffic rights under an air services agreement and available slots at Changi Airport. The airline was plying the route four times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.Airlines need to get approval for flight schedules by civil aviation authorities at each end, separately, CAAS and CAG say. 8:07AM-THEY MAY HAVE FOUND THE MAIN PLANE PARTS NOW.THE REPORTS SAY THE SEARCH CREWS DISCOVERED 4 BIG OBJECTS IN THE JAVA SEA.EVEN THOUGH THE WAVES ARE RAGING AND THE SEA IS STURED UP BADLY.AND THERE SAYING THERE IS ALL KINDS OF GARBAGE IN THE JAVA SEA ALSO.ANOTHER REASON THIS HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE FINDING THE MISSING PLANES DEBRIS.
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-07:00AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-3.50AM: Two more passengers - Hendra Gunawan Syawal and The Meiji Thejakusuma - have been identified.AirAsia Indonesia has also confirmed that its Surabaya-Singapore route has been suspended at the government's request. The government is investigating and evaluating, and AirAsia has said it will fully cooperate, reports Channel New Asia's Sumisha Naidu. 4.04AM: A Russian amphibious plane - a BE-200 - which is designed for search and rescue and maritime patrol, has arrived in Pangkalan Bun to help in the search, reports Xabryna Kek.A Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team comprising six officers from the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and two forensic experts from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) departed earlier today for Surabaya to assist Indonesia in identifying victims of the recent AirAsia QZ8501 tragedy.Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Mr Masagos Zulkifli joined family members to send off the DVI team at Changi Airport.Superintendent (Supt) Sng May Yen, who was also part of the DVI team deployed to Phuket during the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami, said that the team will do our best and try to help as many families as possible. 4.06AM: A Disaster Victim Identification team comprising six officers from the Singapore Police Force and two forensic experts from the Health Sciences Authority left earlier today for Surabaya to assist Indonesia in identifying victims. 4.18AM: Russian authorities speak to the media after the arrival of the BE-200. The aircraft is equipped with instruments that can detect small debris on the surface and the borrom of the sea. The plane is also equipped with a special sonar and acoustic system which can detect beacons from the black box.The Russians will also deploy 22 of its deep water divers, and a submersible vehicle weighing 500kg. The submer sible vehicle will be able to operate under strong currents and high waves, they said. 4.49AM: Of 162 passengers and crew on board, almost a fifth have been found. 12 more bodies will be sent to Surabaya for identification soon, Devianti Faridz reports. 7AM: Air Asia Indonesia had approval to run daily flights from Surabaya to Singapore, even though the airline had flown on Sundays without authorisation from Indonesian authorities, CAAS and Changi Airport Group confirm.
AirAsia Didn’t Have Permission to Fly Route on Day of Crash-Airline Was Only Permitted to Fly From Surabaya to Singapore on Four Days of the Week, Indonesia Says-ByI Made Sentana And Ben Otto-Updated Jan. 3, 2015 12:55 a.m. ET-WALL STREET JOURNAL
JAKARTA, Indonesia— AirAsia didn’t have permission to fly from Surabaya to Singapore on the Sunday morning that Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea, Indonesian officials said Saturday.Shortly after Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said it had detected two large parts of the aircraft on the seabed, transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata said the airline was only permitted to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from late 2014 to early 2015.“So AirAsia has committed a violation of the route that has been given to them,” Mr. Barata told The Wall Street Journal. He said the company’s flights from Surabaya to Singapore had consequently been suspended on Friday.Tommy Soetomo, the head of state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I, said AirAsia had a slot to fly on Sundays. But Mr. Barata said that information was outdated and that AirAsia should have returned the slot to the government. Before October, AirAsia had permission to fly daily to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, he said. He didn’t say why the number of flights was cut.Indonesia’s acting director general of aviation, Djoko Murjatmodjo, added that the Transportation Ministry is investigating why AirAsia was flying the route outside its permitted schedule, which covers the period Oct. 26 to March 28. The probe will include an internal investigation of the ministry, he said.At a news conference in Surabaya on Saturday, AirAsia Indonesia’s chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko said the company would fully cooperate with the government investigation. He said the management of AirAsia won’t comment further until the investigation is complete.
Mr. Barata said the investigation will also cover other airlines.The Airbus A320, which had 162 people on board, lost contact with air traffic control early Sunday morning midway between Surabaya and Singapore. Saturday, the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, Bambang Soelistyo, said sonar scans had identified two objects in about 30 meters of water that represent the main part of the aircraft.“With the oil slick that we found and the discovery of the two big objects, I can confirm that this is the big part of the AirAsia plane we have been looking for all this time,” Mr. Soelistyo said, adding that a remotely operated vehicle would be sent to take pictures of the objects, though rough weather is hampering the deployment. Some bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea and a handful of burials and memorial services have taken place, but the majority of passengers and crew are still unaccounted for as rough weather has slowed the search and recovery process.Budi Sampurna, a professor at the University of Indonesia and member of the forensic team responsible for identifying bodies from the crash, said one autopsy had already taken place, but he didn’t comment on the cause of death. He also didn’t say how many other autopsies were planned. Mr. Soelistyo said Friday evening that a total of 30 bodies had been recovered. Earlier Friday, searchers brought the bodies of 10 victims to shore. Following a ceremonial military send-off, they were flown to Surabaya.The bodies were placed in white coffins with a bouquet of flowers on top. Each coffin had a sign bearing the recovery number of the body inside, 009 through 018. The coffins were brought by ambulance to the airport. Then, each was carried by eight men in military formation to a waiting Indonesian Air Force airplane.U.S. Navy vessels are involved in the search operation, with the USS Fort Worth joining the USS Sampson in the hunt for wreckage on Saturday. Twenty-two Russian divers, a small submarine and a Beriev Be-200 amphibious aircraft also arrived on Saturday, said Alexander Shilin, the country’s deputy ambassador to Indonesia.“This is the most sophisticated equipment that can search both the surface of the water and the bottom of the sea,” Mr. Shilin said of the Beriev Be-200.The USS Sampson has recovered at least a dozen bodies since it joined the search operation on Monday. The bodies were among those sent by helicopter to Pangkalan Bun on Friday.Lt. Lauren Cole, deputy public affairs officer for the 7th Fleet, said that weather conditions in the area where the Sampson has been operating have hampered operations but the ship’s two Romeo search-and-rescue helicopters have been able to operate daily.Lt. Cole reported waves of two to four feet in the Sampson’s operation area, significantly less than the waves of about 14 feet this week by Indonesian search and rescue officials.The AirAsia plane didn’t issue a mayday call before disappearing less than an hour into its trip near a group of intense storm cells.On Friday night, AirAsia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes traveled to the city of Palembang, South Sumatra, for the funeral of flight attendant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, whose body was among the first recovered. She was found wearing her uniform and a nametag.“I am arriving in Surabaya to take Nisa home,” Mr. Fernandes said on Twitter. “I cannot describe how I feel. There are no words.”—Richard C. Paddock, Anita Rachman, Jake Maxwell Watts and Gaurav Raghuvanshi contributed to this article.
Searchers find 'big parts' of crashed AirAisa QZ8501 plane-UPDATED: 03 Jan 2015 15:24-CHANNEL ASIA NEWS
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: Recovery teams have found two big parts of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which crashed into the sea last weekend with 162 people on board, Indonesia's top search official said Saturday (Jan 3).News of the discovery came after Indonesia's transport ministry said the plane had been flying on an unauthorised schedule when it crashed, and the airliner has now been suspended from flying the route from the city of Surabaya to Singapore.The parts of the plane were found in the Java Sea off the island of Borneo late Friday night, raising hopes that the remaining bodies and the black boxes, crucial to determining the cause of the crash, will soon be located. "With the discovery of an oil spill and two big parts of the aircraft, I can assure you these are the parts of the AirAsia plane we have been looking for," search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo told reporters.So far recovery teams have found 30 bodies of those killed when the Airbus A320-200 went down early Sunday during a storm, and Soelistyo said they were now sending divers to the spot where plane parts had been found to try to recover the remaining bodies. "The main focus today is to find and evacuate victims," he said.The director general of air transport, Djoko Murjatmodjo, said AirAsia's permit to fly the route of Flight 8501 had been frozen because the plane had been on an unauthorised schedule. "It violated the route permit given, the schedule given, that's the problem," Murjatmodjo told AFP, adding that the permit for the route would be suspended until investigations were completed.A statement from transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata said AirAsia had not been permitted to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route on Sundays and had not asked to change its schedule. It was unclear how the airliner, which has yet to officially respond to the ministry's statement, had been able to fly without the necessary authorisation.The plane was operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysia-based AirAsia, which previously had a solid safety record.Recovery teams, which have been hampered by rough weather in recent days, on Friday narrowed their search to an area of 45 by 35 nautical miles centred about 75 nautical miles southwest of Pangkalan Bun, a town in Central Kalimantan on Borneo.Search official S.B. Supriyadi in Pangkalan Bun said their Saturday operation would also comb coastal areas to see if bodies had drifted to shore, while their ability to send divers down would depend on sea currents and waves. "The visibility needs to be good as well because we need to pay attention to the divers' safety too," Supriyadi told AFP.Russia has sent in dozens of divers to help with the operations, as well as two planes, one amphibious, while French and Singaporean investigators are helping to locate the black boxes. The United States, Australia, South Korea and Malaysia are among other countries helping in the search effort.
HAMPERED BY STRONG CURRENT
Soelistyo said the larger of the two objects found on Friday night was about 10 metres by five metres. "As I speak we are lowering an ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) underwater to get an actual picture of the objects detected on the sea floor. All are at the depth of 30 metres," he said.He added however that the strong current was making it difficult to operate the ROV. Toos Sanitioso, an investigator from the KNKT (National Transportation Safety Committee), said he was hopeful they would find the black boxes in a few days. "It seems that they have found the major (plane) parts," he told reporters in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city.The families of victims have been preparing funerals as the bodies recovered are identified in Surabaya, where a crisis centre has been set up at a police hospital with facilities to store 150 bodies. Of the 162 passengers and crew on board, 155 were Indonesian, with three South Koreans, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman - co-pilot Remi Plesel. Ongko Gunawan, who lost his sister and brother-in-law and their child, expressed impatience as he waited for news. "We are exhausted and sick of it. Hopefully we can find the bodies quickly, now that there's also help from the foreign countries," he said.Before take-off, the pilot of Flight 8501 had asked for permission to fly at a higher altitude to avoid a storm, but the request was not approved due to other planes above him on the popular route, according to AirNav, Indonesia's air traffic control. In his last communication shortly before all contact was lost, he said he wanted to change course to avoid the menacing storm system.- AFP/by
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-02:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-12:20AM-Separately, the CEO of AirAsia Indonesia Sunu Widyatmoko declined to comment on the announced discovery of the wreckage of QZ8501. 1.00 AM: A transportation safety investigator says conflicting signals from too many ships may make the search for the QZ8501 black box harder, reports Channel NewsAsia's Sumisha Naidu. 1.25 AM: The health minister in Surabaya told a news conference at the crisis centre that forensics teams from across Indonesia are trying to identify the bodies retrieved so far from QZ8501, but only some are undergoing autopsies as some families have declined, citing religious or cultural reasons. 1.30AM: 12 bodies are leaving Pangkalan Bun for Surabaya - eight were flown in today, four from yesterday. Nine of the bodies are male, three female. 2.15AM: About 60 ships and 20 aircraft are involved in the search for QZ8501 debris and bodies today. A Russian amphibious plane will join the operation. The following map is from Malaysia's Chief of Navy.
UPDATES-JAN 03,15-12:15AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-8PM: A recap of what happened on Friday - 30 bodies have been retrieved so far; 65 ships, 14 planes and 19 helicopters have been deployed in a multinational search operation. The tail of the plane has been spotted at a depth of 29 metres said the commander of the Indonesian navy ship Bung Tomo. 8.10PM: The underwater search area as of Saturday measures 57 by 10 nautical miles, tweets Malaysia's Chief of Navy.#QZ8501:5 ships are tasked. 8.40PM: The search for bodies and debris has been repeatedly hampered by bad weather over the week and today is no different. Recovery teams are encountering rough seas with waves of up to 4 metres, and winds of 20 to 30 knots, Malaysia's Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar said on Twitter. 8.58PM: Late Friday, Indonesia's Transport Ministry announced it has suspended AirAsia's Surabaya-Singapore route for a violation of an agreement. AirAsia Indonesia is only allowed to ply that route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, but had done so on Sundays as well. The crashed flight had departed last Sunday (Dec 28).Affected passengers will have to be redirected via another flight, the ministry said. 9.09PM: The most probable cause of the AirAsia QZ8501 crash is icing in the cloud that damaged the plane engine, said the Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics in a 14-page report. 9.37PM: Spotted at the Pangkalan Bun airport - a reminder why hundreds from several countries are braving high winds and rough seas, combing the QZ8501 search site. A fifth of the people listed here have been found. 10:10PM-Here are photos of USS Fort Worth leaving Singapore to support AirAsia flight QZ8501 search efforts. USS Sampson is already on scene and has taken an active roll in the recovery efforts. So far the crew has pulled twelve bodies from the Java Sea and returned them to Indonesian officials in charge of the search operation. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Lauryn Dempsey/ Lt. Cmdr. Greg Adams). 10.13PM: The United States Navy's USS Fort Worth is expected to join the USS Sampson in the QZ8501 search area today. It left Singapore yesterday. 10.45PM: BREAKTHROUGH? The main wreckage of QZ8501 has been found, says the chief of Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS. Speaking in Jakarta, he said two big parts have been found at the bottom of the sea near Pangkalan Bun. The wreckage is lying at a depth of 30 metres. Oil spills have also been detected in the area. Search teams are currently deploying remotely operated vehicles to take a closer look at the wreckage before sending divers. High waves and strong current are still hampering search efforts. 10:50PM-Anxious family members at hotel asking why they weren't informed of briefings first.Rushing to crisis centre #QZ8501. 11.14PM: Relatives of people on board QZ8501 are asking AirAsia staff why they had to find out about the main wreckage discovery via television, Channel NewsAsia's Sumisha Naidu reports. 11.55PM: 7 bodies from QZ8501 have arrived at Pangkalan Bun airport. One more is on its way from a Malaysian ship, flown in by a Super Puma helicopter. Channel NewsAsia's Xabryna Kek who is on the scene says there appears to be debris being shifted from the choppers as well. 12.15AM: The strong current is making it difficult to control the remotely operated vehicle, lowered underwater to probe QZ8501 main wreckage find. The large objects detected measure 9.2m x 4.6m x 0.5m and 7.2m by 0.5m reports Detik. It has been a week since AirAsia QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic controllers with 162 people on board. Two big objects, believed to be the main wreckage of the plane have been detected.
QZ8501: Out of control-Geoffrey Thomas AirlineRatings.com-01 Jan 2015-New radar evidence shows QZ8501 was out of control and on a terrifying trajectory
Evidence is mounting that AirAsia flight QZ8501 encountered a freak weather event that sent it on a terrifying ride before it plummeted into the ocean.Radar play back of the plane’s flight path leaked by Indonesian authorities show it climbing at 9000ft a minute and then being slammed into a dive at 11,000ft a minute with bursts of up to 24,000ft a minute. But the plane’s forward speed was barely 100km/ hour.Earlier this week AirlineRatings.com broke the news that the plane was well above its assigned altitude and at a forward speed less than required to sustain flight.Controllers lost contact with the A320 just four minutes after its crew requested a deviation of their route to avoid storms.An A320 check captain told Airline Ratings.com that the leaked data was an accurate representation of Flt QZ8501. “If these figures are correct, QZ8501 was in a stall almost exactly equal to the parameters recorded on AF447,” he said. “The aircraft was out of control. It’s scary how similar to AF447 it looks.”Air France 447 was lost in the mid Atlantic in 2009. The French investigator found that the A330 crashed after inconsistencies between the airspeed measurements - due most likely to the A330’s pitot tubes being obstructed by ice – caused the autopilot to disconnect.It concluded that the crew reacted incorrectly and ultimately led the A330 to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover.AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes said that preliminary investigations suggest that the A320 encountered “very unique weather.”The Airbus A320 was flying between Surabaya and Singapore with 162 passengers and crew on Sunday when it disappeared off radar in 42 minutes into the flight.Indonesia navy divers have been searching the ocean floor for any sign of QZ8501 but bad weather hampered those efforts.And the outlook is getting worse with winds of up to 32km/hour whipping up 2 to 3 metre seas with white caps forecast over the next four days making spotting and recovery of debris difficult.On Wednesday an Indonesian official told CNN that a Navy ship using sonar diction equipment had found the plane but later Mr Fernandes discounted that claim.Separately French and Singaporean crash investigators have arrived to help in the recovery of the plane’s black boxes. Those investigators are using sensors to try and pick up a signal from the A320s emergency locator transmitter.A new passenger list released by the Indonesian Transport Ministry has revealed that 23 passengers, including two families, missed the flight – some due to a mix-up on the departure time.The original bookings for the flight totalled 177 made up of 157 adults, 20 children and four infants. Actual uplift was 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant.The crew were made up of two pilots, one engineer and four flight attendants.
Anxious wait for families as bodies of QZ8501 crash victims are identified-By Sumisha Naidu-UPDATED: 02 Jan 2015 21:28-cnasia
SURABAYA: As hours turn into days for the families of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash victims in Surabaya, bad news is better than none.Slowly, bodies are being brought to Surabaya and identified, and families are wondering whether their loved ones will be the next to arrive. The sister of QZ8501 passenger David Hartono said: "I hope we can find him soon. If we find him, we will bury him with my late father, (who passed away four years ago)."Police have asked family members to provide them with more information - anything that will help them quicken the Identification of the bodies retrieved from the Java Sea - where authorities suspect that the missing AirAsia flight had crashed.The sister of QZ8501 passenger David Hartono said she had premonitions of death in the weeks before the flight's disappearance. However, she never thought that her 23-year-old brother's trip to visit Singapore with his friends would end up like this. "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," she said.It is a difficult wait for them and other families here but many have no time for anger. Some have found solace in prayer, hoping divine intervention will bring them closer to closure.- CNA/ac
Recovery teams narrow AirAsia search-UPDATED: 02 Jan 2015 20:40-channelnewsasia
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 on Friday (Jan 2), hopeful they were closing in on the plane's crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.French and Singaporean investigators joined the hunt for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared from radar during a storm Sunday en route from Indonesia's second city of Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.The search teams have deployed side-scan sonar equipment to survey the seabed and pinger locators to fine-tune their search for the plane's black boxes, crucial to determining the why the plane crash into the Java Sea off Borneo.Rough weather has in recent days hampered the search for the plane's fuselage, which is believed to be in relatively shallow water of around 25-32 metres (82-105 feet).Search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said Friday's operation was focused on an area of 1,575 square nautical miles - a tenth of the size of Thursday's search - with 29 ships and 17 aircraft engaged in the operation."There are two main tasks in this priority sector: first, to locate the biggest part of the plane's body," he told a press conference. "The second task is to find the position of the black boxes, or flight recorders, which will be carried out by the KNKT (National Transportation Safety Committee) which start working today.""Divers are already on standby at the navy ship Banda Aceh to dive on that priority area to locate the body of the plane," he said, voicing hope for a "significant result". KNKT chief Tatang Kurniadi told AFP that 40 divers, including 20 deep sea experts, arrived on Friday from Russia to help, along with two planes, one amphibious.
EXTREME WEATHER
The search is now focused on an area of 45 by 35 nautical miles centred about 75 nautical miles southwest of Pangkalan Bun, a town in Central Kalimantan on Borneo.With the search area narrowing, Indonesian official S B Supriyadi said they were pressing on despite rough conditions, with high winds and 3-4 metre (10-13 foot) waves. "The search is still proceeding in systematic way, despite the extreme weather," he told a press conference.He said ships equipped with sonar may search through the night, but high waves were hampering the use of equipment to find the black boxes.Two South Korean Orion surveillance planes on Friday spotted six bodies, Indonesian air force spokesman Hadi Tjahjanto said in a press release. "After sweeping the area for more than two hours, at 11:58 the (Orions) found three bodies sitting in one row," he said, and another three just minutes later. They informed warships by radio and fired flares to indicate the location for retrieval, he said.
MORE VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
Relatives were preparing to hold funerals after three more victims were identified, including flight attendant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, who had recently posted an Instagram picture with the message "I love you from 38,000 ft" for her boyfriend."I'm arriving in Surabaya to take Nisa (Fauzi) home to Palembang. I cannot describe how I feel. There are no words," AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes tweeted.Also named was Grayson Herbert Linaksita, 11, who was travelling with his parents and 12-year-old sister for a holiday. His great-uncle Bagyono Linaksita, 73, told AFP was dreading breaking the news to the children's grandmother, who was on holiday in the Czech Republic."She doted on her two grandchildren and would send and fetch them from school every day," he said. "We have not told her the news that the whole family had died in a plane crash. Grayson was her favourite grandchild. She will certainly faint."A crisis centre for identifying the victims has been set up at a police hospital in Surabaya with facilities to store 150 bodies.Before take-off, the pilot of Flight 8501 had asked for permission to fly at a higher altitude to avoid a storm. But his request was not approved due to other planes above him on the popular route, according to AirNav, Indonesia's air traffic control.In his last communication, Captain Irianto, an experienced former air force pilot, said he wanted to change course to avoid the menacing storm system. Then all contact was lost, about 40 minutes after the plane had taken off.Of the 162 passengers and crew on board, 155 were Indonesian, with three South Koreans, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman - co-pilot Remi Plesel.The plane was operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysia-based AirAsia, which previously had a solid safety record. The crash came at the end of a disastrous year for Malaysian air travel.After the disappearance of Flight MH370 in March, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew, another Malaysia Airlines flight -- MH17 -- was shot down over Ukraine in July, killing all 298 on board.- AFP/ir
Airbus signs MoU with Honeywell and Safran to develop electric taxiing solution for the A320 Family
• Projected fuel savings and CO2 reductions up to four per cent per trip
• Providing A320 Family operators autonomy from pushback tractors
• Taxiing-related carbon and NOx emissions cut by more than half
18 December 2013 Press Release
As part of on-going research and development into future technology options, Airbus has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with EGTS International, a joint venture company between Safran and Honeywell Aerospace, to further develop and evaluate an autonomous electric pushback and taxiing solution for the A320 Family.The agreement marks the selection of EGTS International’s Electric Green Taxiing System to be evaluated as a new option on the A320 Family – referred to by Airbus as eTaxi. This option would allow the aircraft to push-back from the gate without a tug, taxi-out to the runway, and return to the gate after landing without operating the main engines.eTaxi will use the aircraft’s Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) to power electric motors fitted to the main landing gear wheels. The architecture will include the ability for pilots to keep full control from the cockpit over their aircraft’s speed and direction during taxi operations.Olivier Savin, EGTS Programme Vice President, Safran said: “We are extremely pleased to strengthen our relationship with Airbus, a key customer and industry leader in innovation. Through this agreement we are creating the ideal context to collaborate to best utilize our own landing gear systems expertise to develop a green taxiing solution for the A320 Family.”Brian Wenig, EGTS Programme Vice President, Honeywell Aerospace said: “Following our demonstration of the technology at this year’s Paris Airshow, this MoU marks the next critical milestone in the advancement of the Electric Green Taxiing System as an option for Airbus’ A320 Family, by securing Airbus’ support in the development of the system. Airbus will provide extremely valuable insight to facilitate a seamless integration into the aircraft.”Daniel Baubil, Airbus EVP, Head of A320 Family Programme said: “Today Airbus delivers the world’s most eco-efficient single-aisle aircraft – the A320 Family. This is the result of our permanent research for innovative enhancements to make our aircraft even more efficient and capable.” He adds: “We therefore look forward to working with our EGTS International expert partners – Honeywell and Safran – with whom we share the common view that the A320 Family is a natural fit for an electric taxiing capability.”The eTaxi option will offer several operational and environmental benefits for the A320 Family:· Per trip, the projected fuel savings and CO2 reductions would be approximately four percent;·It would contribute to significantly more efficient taxiing operations and save around two minutes of time on pushback; Taxiing-related carbon and nitrous oxide emissions would be cut by more than half.Over the next few months the partners will jointly develop and present a global commercial case and implementation plan to determine the feasibility of an electric taxiing solution for the A320 Family. To this end, Airbus and EGTS International are reinforcing their existing teams to finalize validation studies, define specifications and converge on market requirements for a fully tailored forward-fit and retrofit technological solution.To regularly enhance the A320 Family’s capabilities and performance, Airbus invests approximately 300 million euros annually in keeping the aircraft highly competitive and efficient. More than 10,000 A320 Family aircraft have been ordered and over 5,800 delivered to operators worldwide. With a record backlog of over 4,200 aircraft, the A320 Family reaffirms its position as the world’s best-selling single-aisle aircraft family.Safran is a leading international high- technology group with three core businesses: Aerospace (propulsion and equipment), Defence and Security. Operating worldwide, the Group has 62,500 employees and generated sales of 13.6 billion euros in 2012. Working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world or European leadership positions in its core markets. The Group invests heavily in research & development to meet the requirements of changing markets, including expenditures of 1.6 billion Euros in 2012. Safran is listed on NYSE Euronext Paris and is part of the CAC40 index. For more information please visit: www.safran-group.com-Honeywell is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; turbochargers; and performance materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the New York, London, and Chicago Stock Exchanges. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit: www.honeywell.com-Airbus is the world’s leading aircraft manufacturer of passenger airliners, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13,600 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Of these, more than 8,100 aircraft have been delivered. Airbus has design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain, and subsidiaries in the US, China, Japan and in the Middle East.
