WHAT HAPPENED IT (QZ8501) ✈️ Some experts suggest the pilot may have managed to make an emergency water landing, only for the plane to be overcome by high seas. The Airbus A320-200 left the Indonesian city of Surabaya early Sunday and disappeared from radar over the Java Sea during a storm, but it failed to send the transmissions normally emitted when a plane crashes or is submerged. Experts say this suggests the experienced former air force pilot, Captain Iriyanto, conducted an emergency water landing which did not have a destructive impact. “The emergency locator transmitter (ELT) would work on impact, be that land, sea or the sides of a mountain, and my analysis is it didn’t work because there was no major impact during landing,” said Dudi Sudibyo, a senior editor of aviation magazine Angkasa. “The pilot managed to land it on the sea’s surface,” he added. Sea landing ... Some theories suggest Flight QZ8501 landed smoothly on water before being Sea landing ... Some theories suggest Flight QZ8501 landed smoothly on water before being submerged by a wave. Picture: Robertus Pudyanto, Getty Images. Source: Getty Images The plane, carrying 162 people to Singapore, was cruising at a height of 32,000 feet when the pilot requested a change of course to avoid storms. But managing director of Ailevon Pacific Aviation Consulting, Oliver Lamb, was sceptical about the possibility of landing the plane smoothly on water. “Landing an aircraft on water is extremely difficult and extremely rare,” he told News Corp Australia. “Remember that landing on the Hudson, in New York? That was a very rare event. “In order to successfully land on the water, you need to have very calm seas, a very skilled pilot and you need to be in an area where all the technical conditions and atmospherics are easily managed. Otherwise, it’s like hitting concrete.” As for the transmission signals not being made, Mr Lamb said there were other explanations, such as: “the transmission could have been made but wasn’t picked up, or it was made but couldn’t get through.” “We’re going to have to wait for the black box to reveal what finally happened.”
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 03:18:46 +0000
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