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AirAsia victim with life jacket raises questions about plane's last moments
Reuters ^ | 12/31/14 | By Gayatri Suroyo and Wilda Asmarini

Posted on 12/30/2014 11:33:46 PM PST by barmag25

SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an official with Indonesia's search and rescue agency said, raising questions about how the disaster unfolded.

Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large, dark object beneath waters near where debris and bodies were found on the surface.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airasia; qz8501
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To: Abathar

Deceleration trauma.


41 posted on 12/31/2014 5:34:54 AM PST by Toespi
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To: gleeaikin

Standard lapse rate for temperature is the same in the tropics. Every jet flying more than 100 miles is in potential icing temperature, on every flight.


42 posted on 12/31/2014 5:35:30 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: tflabo

Composite construction is a very new feature. The Boeing 787 has a compute fuselage. The Airbus A350XWB has a composite fuselage. No other large commercial aircraft have composite constructions, including the A320 and A330.


43 posted on 12/31/2014 5:39:02 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: driftdiver

Not always. Only if flights go beyond 50 miles from shore.


44 posted on 12/31/2014 5:39:46 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: zeestephen

No. EOW ( extended over water) planes are equipped with life rafts and life vests. If a plane flies, I think 50 miles from land, over water, flight attendants are required to demo how to don a life vest.

And NEVER inflate your life vest until you are out of the plane.


45 posted on 12/31/2014 5:44:05 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: 353FMG

Dark is not a color.


46 posted on 12/31/2014 5:51:25 AM PST by dmz
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To: ltc8k6

They said they could see the plane underwater.


47 posted on 12/31/2014 5:52:33 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: MMaschin

Dad used to do some search and recovery work from time to time. He indicated that as the plane broke up at altitude and speed it peeled clothes off very efficiently. Laced up shoes came right off.

At this point I’m waiting on the recorders. They will tell the story.


48 posted on 12/31/2014 5:55:31 AM PST by gfbtbb (Ladies and Gentlemen, we are on our own.)
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To: Abathar

I was looking for your sarcasm tag.

You’re in a plane going down and you strip down to your undies?


49 posted on 12/31/2014 5:59:09 AM PST by dmz
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To: barmag25

——some fully clothed-——

Hmmm guess they didn’t participate in the precrash orgy


50 posted on 12/31/2014 6:00:05 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Tzfat

Was this flight m ore than 50 miles from shore?


51 posted on 12/31/2014 6:10:29 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Abathar

I saw that horrible picture on drudge and I think it was a woman because it looked like a bra was pushed up towards the upper arms and over the face.


52 posted on 12/31/2014 6:10:41 AM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: fatima

“They said they could see the plane underwater.”

They have said a lot of things.

They thought coral reefs were an oil slick.


53 posted on 12/31/2014 6:18:58 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: zeestephen

We flew from San Antonio to Vegas last summer on Southwest. Attendant gave a life vest demo. Only body of water in the flight path was Lake Mead.


54 posted on 12/31/2014 6:31:25 AM PST by MisterArtery
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To: MisterArtery

Know what would be messed up? The “dark object” in the water is MHS370.


55 posted on 12/31/2014 6:42:27 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Groupthink is torture. Arrest liberal college professors.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I think MHS370 was taken out by 0 and put in his huge lock box.


56 posted on 12/31/2014 6:48:58 AM PST by mcshot ( He's hiding everything at the expense of our dying Republic but that is the plan.)
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To: dmz

That’s why I thought he might have made it out alive first, not knowing that losing clothes was common in high altitude “events” over water. I figured stripping on the way down was a little too over the top to be taken seriously.


57 posted on 12/31/2014 7:05:03 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: ltc8k6

This is crazy.I’m going to put the news on.


58 posted on 12/31/2014 7:11:03 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: All

Turns out this story is false.

https://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4AEgAUABgAmoCdXPYAQE&usg=AFQjCNGOldf1-WmlO3pL8WCA1wIGtzo9Lg&rt=STORY&url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/31/us-indonesia-airplane-idUSKBN0K900D20141231&ei=GBSkVPjUKoXngAf0-4GgDQ&sig2=1CNDhxEXIxQ0AMdVekVBEg


59 posted on 12/31/2014 8:13:27 AM PST by barmag25 (He's a good boy who just got in with the wrong crowd.He was turning his life around as an aspiring r)
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To: pepsionice

I read that they found 3 people floating in the water holding hands which would lead you to believe the pilot possibly ditched and some people actually got out into the water. Some super informed Freeper validate my belief that plane is the same model Sully whats his name ditched in the Hudson.


60 posted on 12/31/2014 8:31:00 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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