Asiana Cargo 747-400 missing/crashed

[Flying Illini]

Asiana Cargo 747-400 crash

RIP fellas.

Cargo plane feared lost off South Korea


Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea's Coast Guard says it has found parts of a missing Asiana Airlines cargo plane off the southern island of Jeju but has not located the aircraft itself.
Controllers lost contact with the plane at 4:28 a.m. Thursday (3:28 p.m. Wednesday ET) and found the parts about three hours later, the Coast Guard said. Two people were aboard the aircraft, it said.
There was no immediate comment from Asiana executives.
Officials have not confirmed the plane has crashed but are working on the assumption that it has, based on the parts found in the ocean. Weather does not appear to have been a factor, the Coast Guard told CNN.

 

[Flying Illini]

http://www.flightglobal.com/article...-747-400f-missing-in-sea-off-south-korea.html

Asiana confirms 747-400F missing in sea off South Korea
By Siva Govindasamy


A Boeing 747-400F operated by South Korea's Asiana Airlines is missing in the sea off the country's Jeju Island.


The aircraft, with the registration HL-7604 (pictured below), took off on a regular cargo service from Seoul's Incheon airport to Shanghai Pudong airport in China at 03:05h local time. Around one hour later, some 76nm (140km) from Jeju, the crew reported "mechanical difficulties" and attempted to divert to Jeju's airport, said an Asiana spokesman.


Shortly after, radio contact was lost and the aircraft disappeared from radars. Asiana officials informed the South Korean coast guard, who deployed ships to the sea off Jeju to investigate.

"We are still waiting for a report from the coast guard and our staff," said the spokesman. "Some debris and oil has been spotted floating in the sea, but the aircraft has not been found yet."


The spokesman said that there were two crew, a pilot and co-pilot, in the missing aircraft.


The airframe was built in 2006 and has clocked 26,300h, as shown in Flightglobal's ACAS data. The aircraft is powered by four GE CF6-80C2 engines.


Asiana operates five 747-400Fs, four 747-400BDSFs, and two 747-400 combis.

 

[FO 4 Life]

Quote http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/07/2...

"Officials at Asiana and the transportation ministry said the crash may have been caused by an in-flight fire, noting that the plane was carrying inflammable materials in its 58-ton cargo."

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/9928327...

"The pilot radioed Chinese air traffic controllers in Shanghai that fire had broken out in the hold and that the plane had to divert to Jeju, a transport ministry official said."

http://www.just4airlines.com/j4_dox/email/rss.mv?s...

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

More batteries?

 

[LaGarbage Man]

More batteries?

That is what I am thinking as well.
Lithium Ion batteries = Great in my computer but crap in the hold of an aircraft.
Ship them by boat
Thought's and prayers for the crew and their families.

 

[aveator]

dammit,they took off shortly behind us on same route...RIP....very sad...

 

[wmuflyguy]

very sad to hear

 

[dispatchguy]

Lithium Batts should go by surface, just too damned dangerous (if that is ultimately the cause)

 

[DX747]

lithium batts should go by surface, just too damned dangerous (if that is ultimately the cause)

I don't care if its the cause or not!!!!!! It has been the cause and it will be the cause sooner or later.......................so ship the "g*$ dam" things by land and sea!!!..

Rip

 

[LongBeachTrijet]

I am willing to bet that this will only result in a ban on shipping Lithium Ion batteries in passenger aircraft. Cargo pilots be damned.