Indonesian officials find items resembling plane door, emergency slide in search for missing AirAsia

[1step]

Source: Raw Story

Agence France-Presse
30 Dec 2014 at 01:11 ET

Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted during an aerial search Tuesday for missing AirAsia flight 8501, Indonesian officials said.

“We spotted about 10 big objects and many more small white-coloured objects which we could not photograph,” Indonesian air force official Agus Dwi Putranto told a press conference.

“The position is 10 kilometres (six miles) from the location the plane was last captured by radar,” he said.
He displayed 10 photos of objects resembling a plane door, emergency slide, and a square box-like object.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/indonesian-officials-find-items-resembling-plane-door-emergency-slide-in-search-for-missing-airasia-flight/

---

No aliens, no CIA, no dark maneuvers here. Just three salient words: Oceans. Are. Big.

[davidpdx]

1. An emergency slide?

I have to wonder if that is on land that the slide and life jackets means that there were survivors. I hate to put false hope out there, but maybe that's a good sign. Now that there is an exact location they need to get some helicopters there pronto before the sunsets.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Hard to say.

Those things can auto-deploy in some impacts/conditions. The kinds of impacts that shatter spines, pelvises and everything else in the plane.

Might be a good sign, might not mean anything at all, unfortunately.

[davidpdx]

4. Very true

It's hard not to want to hope that at least some made it out alive. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[Contrary1]

2. One account I read said that there had been reports

of smoke coming from a nearby island. If it turns out to be true, it may indicate survivors.

[jakeXT]

6. the plane seems to be in one piece in 100ft deep water

http://abcnews.go.com/International/airasia-bodies-retrieved-search-missing-jet/story?id=27891534

[BlueEye]

5. I read a report that the bodies they have pulled out of the water DID NOT have life jackets on.

This may indicate a more catastrophic event, as opposed to a controlled ditching. Either way, the seas would have been pretty rough when they went down.

RIP to the victims