Air Asia Flight QZ 8501 Missing
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Re: Air Asia Flight QZ 8501 Missing
AirAsia Flight 8501:Preliminary meteorological analysis - Weather Graphics
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Re: Air Asia Flight QZ 8501 Missing
Hmm, although it looks to be a contributory factor, the precise circumstances don't look like weather being a full explanation of such a massive behaviour.
AirAsia Flight 8501:Preliminary meteorological analysis - Weather Graphics
AirAsia Flight 8501:Preliminary meteorological analysis - Weather Graphics
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Re: Air Asia Flight QZ 8501 Missing
Other reports are saying that the aircraft suddenly "lost 200km/h in speed", creating the stall. If true that's a pretty severe effect for a storm alone, and doesn't explain why they failed to exit the stall, given their altitude.
My guess is still that its a combination of at least two things (which is usually the case anyway).
For others, coffin corner is as altitude increases the gap between the minimum, stall, speed and the maximum overspeed decreases - meaning you need to keep the aircraft within a narrower and narrower band of speeds (hence corner). Pay-to-Fly is an iniquitous situation where you can't get a job as a pilot without a reasonable number of hours, and you can't get those hours without flying, so some low-cost airlines ask for the pilot to pay *them* money to be allowed to fly and get the hours. That both decreases the pay/conditions of other, more experienced pilots (hence they hate it) and puts inexperienced first officers in charge of big jets - based on money, not capability.
In short, a 'career' in an industry where people so want to fly that they will pay to do it - you're going to have a bad time.