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Douraque schreef:N0a schreef:Ik las het vannacht. Verschrikkelijk. Dit is een dochterbedrijf van Malaysia Airlines. Die heeft het dit jaar wel heel zwaar te verduren..
Is geen dochterbedrijf, hebben enkel dezelfde thuisbasis
Vreselijk dat dit gebeurd is, sterkte voor de nabestaanden.
Citaat:BBC:
AirAsia's Chief Executive Tony Fernandes, who has flown to Surabaya, said: "We don't want to speculate but right now of course the plane has been missing for 12 hours and there's a deep sense of depression here. The captain had more than 20,500 flight hours, almost 7,000 of them with AirAsia.
The missing jet had requested a "deviation" from the flight path to avoid thick storm clouds, AirAsia said. Indonesia's transport ministry said the pilot had asked permission to climb to 38,000ft (11,000m). Ministry official Djoko Murjatmodjo said the request "could not be approved at that time due to traffic, there was a flight above
The plane in question was delivered to AirAsia in 2008, has flown 13,600 times, covering 23,000 hours, and underwent its last maintenance on 16 November.
AirAsia facts:* Low-cost airline group with main hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Founded in 2001
* AirAsia Group services now comprises eight affiliates, including AirAsia Indonesia
* Group employs more than 15,000 staff
* Operates fleet of more than 150 Airbus A320 aircraft with 200 more on order
* Flies to about 100 destinations in some 15 countries. Carried almost 8 million passengers in 2013
* AirAsia Indonesia operates domestic flights round the Indonesian archipelago as well as international services to Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and Thailand.
* AirAsia Indonesia, along with other Indonesian airlines, was banned from flying to the European Union in 2007 due to safety concerns but this was lifted in July 2010.
* The AirAsia group has previously had no fatal accidents involving its aircraft
purny schreef:Nou ik voel niet echt de pijn die ik voelde toen... Dit vliegtuig is door noodweer neergestort en het vliegtuig van juli is doelbewust of niet uit de lucht geschoten. Ik vind het wel erg voor alle nabestaanden die in onzekerheid zitten over hun familie. Maar ik vind het nog veel erger voor de nabestaanden van MH370. Die zitten al heel lang in onzekerheid over hun naasten
dito schreef:Op cnn rijst de vraag waarom kon piloot wel melden dat weer slecht was maar later niet een noodoproep doen. Zal vliegtuig dan toch geraakt zijn door bliksem waardoor alle instrumenten uitvielen?