[Bletch]

Still strapped in their seats

[stupid]

http://adminkumat.blogspot.com/2015/...a-qz-8501.html

[ocrage]

damn those bodies decomposed fast.

[Hunted]

Searchers saw the plane's main body, with one of its wings attached, via a camera carried by a remotely operated underwater vehicle.

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Members of Indonesia's National Search And Rescue Agency carry the airplane parts found floating in the water near the site where AirAsia Flight 8501


Indonesia police officer stands guard near the wreckage, which police officials and Indonesia's National Search And Rescue Agency identified as from AirAsia Flight 8501, at a warehouse at Kumai port in Pangkalan Bun, Monday. Jan. 19, 2015

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The Co-Pilot was flying at time of crash.

On Thursday, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, which has been analysing the plane's black boxes, said that prior to the crash, the aircraft had climbed fast in an area packed with cumulonimbus -- huge clouds that pilots try to avoid.

They also revealed that the Airbus A320-200's less experienced French co-pilot, Remi Plesel, was flying the plane when it went down, rather than Captain Iriyanto, a former fighter pilot who had around 20,000 hours of flying time.

"The second-in-command was the pilot flying," chief investigator Mardjono Siswosuwarno told reporters in Jakarta, disclosing details from a preliminary report into the crash.

He said the captain sat on the left and acted as "the monitoring pilot".

Gerry Soejatman, a Jakarta-based independent aviation analyst, said that while there was nothing unusual about the co-pilot being at the controls, the question was whether the captain took the right decision when the plane got into trouble.

- Sharp climb -

"The captain has a choice whether to let the co-pilot continue flying and he does the trouble-shooting, or he takes control of the aircraft and allows the co-pilot to do the trouble-shooting," he told AFP.

He said it would not be clear whether the pilot made the right choice until more analysis of the plane's black boxes -- the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder -- had been conducted and made public.

Investigators' comments that the plane climbed sharply before crashing echoed those made by Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan last week.

In 30 seconds, it rose from 32,000 feet to 37,400 feet, then dipped to 32,000 feet, before descending for around three minutes when the black boxes stopped, said investigator Ertata Lananggalih.

They also said the plane's stall alarms were going off for four minutes before the crash.

[ocrage]

i wonder when the black box recordings will be released

[minka1]

So sad. Very interesting to see these poor guys still in their seats. Heartbreaking.

[minka1]

I wonder if they become unconscious in the 3 minute plummet to the water. I just think of a whole 3 minutes, being terrified, bewildered, hoping to survive, being alive through all that time. So sad.

[Patriotpride16t]

Picture #2 is this a new version of "Deadliest Catch"?