More stories will come out .. including some indication that the ATC denied permission for the flight to change course !the lynx wrote:Just returned from a trip within the region using Jetstar. I flew about 4 hours after that missing flight was reported. I tell you, the weather is not to be messed with. My plane had serious turbulence on my way to Singapore due to heavy clouds. There were times I clenched on my seat arm rests because the shaking was terrifying.
It is said they denied it because there was another plane nearbye flying at 38k. ID ATC talked to ATC in SG to check how high they coul let them go (34k) and after it tried to contact the plane back with no response already.ecureilx wrote:More stories will come out .. including some indication that the ATC denied permission for the flight to change course !the lynx wrote:Just returned from a trip within the region using Jetstar. I flew about 4 hours after that missing flight was reported. I tell you, the weather is not to be messed with. My plane had serious turbulence on my way to Singapore due to heavy clouds. There were times I clenched on my seat arm rests because the shaking was terrifying.
Bit of tough times for flying ..
Airline Industry has it's ups and downsWd40 wrote:Quite scary! I wonder if this will make people take fewer vacations by air and restrict travel to only when absolutely essential, especially people from this part of the world.
At a time when oil prices have fallen by half, you would have thought the airline industry is going to boom, but nope.
RIP, though with the gathering forces, the recovery will be faster !!the lynx wrote:Body sighted with debris. S&R team seen preparing body bags in anticipation.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asi ... 57034.html
RIP.
glad you arrived safely, lynx.the lynx wrote:Just returned from a trip within the region using Jetstar. I flew about 4 hours after that missing flight was reported. I tell you, the weather is not to be messed with. My plane had serious turbulence on my way to Singapore due to heavy clouds. There were times I clenched on my seat arm rests because the shaking was terrifying.
What are your (x9200 & ecureilx) takes on the TigerAir fleet?ecureilx wrote:not into the details, but the 320 series was built for shorter/high cycle life spanx9200 wrote:Well could be as Airbus even did not comment on this only saying it was a hardworking machine, but I would never expect something like this is even possible from the logistic POV.
Besides, it may be some differences to the material fatigue depending whether it happens over longer or shorter periods of time.
And material fatigue is nowadays extremely rare, as the C and D checks are more detailed now
plus the plastic bus has proven to have been extremely reliable.
As for this plane, I suspect it was a repeat of AF447, as if it has disintegrated the ELTs on surface, the ELTs would have been activated !
TigerAir flies a total of 35 aircraft... all Airbus A319's and A320's. The average age of the fleet is 3.5 years, with the oldest plane being 9 years old. Compare this to the average age of Southwest Airlines (11.9 years) and Delta (16.9 years) and you see that TigerAir is much younger than most airlines.Brah wrote:What are your (x9200 & ecureilx) takes on the TigerAir fleet?
Sorry, I have never used the TigerAir. I generally avoid budget lines to minimize encounters like this one that effectively saved a number of people that otherwise boarded the QZ8501 flight.Brah wrote:What are your (x9200 & ecureilx) takes on the TigerAir fleet?
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