MYSTERY IN THE SKY - WTF? - MH370 & MH17 & QZ8501 & More

[HairOfTheDog]

I think the pilot climbed too rapidly to avoid a storm and stalled the plane into an uncontrollable death roll into the ocean

I think the plane is at the bottom of the Java Sea too.

Luckily, it's much shallower than the Indian Ocean where MH370 is presumed to have gone down and aviation authorities know approximately where it dropped, so there's a decent chance of recovering QZ8501.

Here's some updated information on what the pilots did (and presumably did):

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The pilots requested a higher altitude because of weather.

Air traffic control approved the pilot's request to turn left but denied permission for the plane to climb to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet, Djoko Murjatmodjo, an aviation official at the Indonesian Transport Ministry, told the national newspaper Kompas.

The increased altitude request was denied because there was another plane flying at that height, he said.

Djoko suggested that Flight 8501 (the plane is an Airbus A320) ascended despite air traffic control denying it permission.

A screen grab purportedly leaked by an Indonesian air traffic controller appears to show that Flight 8501 was rising in altitude but was losing speed at a velocity that was too slow to sustain flight, said Geoffrey Thomas, managing director at the aviation industry site airlineratings.com.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/29/world/...?hpt=hp_t1