Page 156 - 320 News Today

Suggested? but in a situation like this a pilot has an immense amount of power to really take care of the airplane. thats his job, and thats something pilots take very seriously. >> and you talked about this being a very popular route. what do we know about the surabaya airport where this flight began? >> well surabaya its a typical indonesian airport. good size. probably a lot of traffic, a lot of low-cost traffic going through there. so its going to be dealing with a lot of a-320s and 737s and...

And of course you know malaysia will be there as well. the ntsb can offer the assistance with the faa if requested, the united states of course, if they are requested, they can provide aerial assets and surface assets if they are in the area. >> lets focus in on this plane specifically the airbus a-3220. they got it in 2008 last scheduled maintenance in november. >> airbus put out some information today that said every two seconds an a-320 takes off or lands around the world. its a very widely u...

Indonesia. hello again, im natalie allen from cnn center. search and rescue operations under way right now for a missing air asia airplane. flight 8501 was en route from the indonesian city of surabaya. there it is at the bottom of your screen. to singapore. just a two-hour flight. when it lost contact with air traffic control early sunday morning. most of the planes flight path took it over open water. there were were told heavy thunderstorms in the area and the pilot asked to change the route ...

Its a little bit over six years old. which when you talk about an aircraft thats relatively young. airbus also says that this particular aircraft had 23,000 flight hours, and we do know from flight tracking website flight radar 24 on that same day of this incident it made five other trips according to that flight tracking website. five other short haul trips within this region without any incident. we also know that this a 320 according to airbus is the work horse. they give some interesting sta...

Asia. its a very popular airline. obviously, its a budget airline, many people wanting to fly them. they have according to reports im seeing online something like 100 destinations. so its a fairly widespread route plan that airasia has. and as i say, they are fairly popular within the asia clientele that want those budget flights. now, we know from airasia itself the flight was an airbus 320-200. and as i say, it was due to land at about three hours ago in singapore. beyond that we dont have man...

When the action is initiated, which is the search and rescue operations. >> right. we should say that the research that ive been given and this is the associated press and other information that has been given to me that it had lost contact about three minutes after making that request that they wanted to deviate from the scheduled flight plan and then one minute after that three-minute point, so four minutes after making contact and saying that we need to deviate, it dropped off the radar. so r...

We were all talking about this earlier, and despite the high-profile incidents of the three, when you consider how many takeoffs and landings and how many people travel every single day, this really is a small number of incidents when you look at the big picture. i mean the airbus 320, one takes off and lands every 20 second ss around the world, and this particular aircraft, only 17 to 20 inscidents, but with those kind of reps, that shows and puts it in kon texcontext. >> and the airbus, and fo...

Hours of experience or flight time, we dont know what the background was. we dont know how much time how much time did this captain and first officer actually have in the a-320 airbus. and here in the united states our legacy carriers, they have substantially more flight time than that. this is a new entrant type carrier, low-cost carrier. they dont have a big pilot pool to draw from. so for that airline and that part of the world, that you know is basically relative. they are experienced pilots...

Board. the airasia 320 was and hour into its flight when it disappeared prom the screen. they have been searching the area of the java sea before the search was suspended because of the poor weather. airasia says flight 8501 asked for a diversion in its path due to bad weather. the pilot asked for permission to climb to 38,000 people to avoid thick cloud. no distress call is reported to have been issued by the crew. anxious friends and relatives have gathered at both surabaya and singapore airpo...

Scenarios. airbus got the word out around the world. we learn from the accidents. i dont know if pitot tubes is a factor here. if airbus has done their due diligence, mary is a lawyer, she can talk to that. that shouldnt be a factor. the same thing with the training program about stay off the rudders. do not use the rudders to try to correct an upset situation. but ill let mary handle that. >> heres what we do know. after 447 went down, airbus did and the regulators did mandate that they change ...