My Grey World

Prerequisite : the news of Adam Air flight 574.
Here I provide some links :

• Channel News Asia
• The Guardian
• Tempo Interactive

Okay. I assume that by now everybody already knows about the poor flight that disappeared on the way from Surabaya (East Java) to Manado (North Sulawesi/Celebes).

On my older post Condolences (hey why did it suspiciously disappear? Oh gosh. Oh. I set it into private. How come? I didn’t. Here’s the link.), I already talked about the poor flight. Just to give quick summary, I want to write the chronology.

• The plane disappeared from radar
• The whole Indonesia got panic. Especially the relatives of the passengers.
• Whispers said that Singapore, coincidentally the country I’m residing in now, has received emergency signal from the plane.
• The plane has been found, it said that 90 had been died while 12 survived. Knew this from Yahoo news that appeared when I open my Yahoo mailbox. The source was from AP. Hmm.
• Headline on Kompas on the following day said the plane hasn’t been found.
• What I just read from Channel News Asia, Indonesia is still trying to find the plane. And many airports reported to get the emergency signal, from different places.

See the strange thing? First they say it has been found. Complete with the statistics. Complete with the coordinate. Complete with the place. ( I read it fell on a some mountainous region kind of thing) The very next day (or the two days after, sorry I’m a bit bad in memorizing time) when I checked that day’s newspaper it was printed so big : “Pesawat Adam Air Belum Ditemukan”. (translation : Adam Air plane has not been found)

Tsk. Weird.

What I read from Kompas about the Singapore-got-the-signal thing was that Singapore got the signal from the plane’s ELBA (Emergency Locator Beacon Aircraft). The next line said that the ELBA will send signal if the plane touched the ground. Then you can get the conclusion that it fell on solid ground, right? They even published the coordinate. (Sorry can’t get you the accurate news though, I was just skimming through the newspaper) But I remember that they said the coordinate is somewhere near Polewali (South Sulawesi/Celebes).

Now it’s been said that Sam Ratulangi Airport also got the signal. Oh Sam Ratulangi Airport is in Manado, the plane’s should-be final destination. The signal was detected on Monday but only reported on Thursday, near Manado (North Sulawesi/Celebes).

In case you guys are curious, here’s the map of Sulawesi/Celebes.

The pink dot marks Polewali while the red dot marks Manado.

Hmmm… Strange? Yeah. Totally. Don’t you feel it too?

The wikipedia page about this flight that I read stated some speculations. Maybe you’re interested to read it. Just click the link. Much better if you open it in a new tab so you won’t leave this unfinished reading. If you don’t have a browser that has tabs (it’s so much better to browse with tabs, tell you),Get Firefox 2!

For those who are too lazy, just a quick summary. There is a speculation that speculates that the plane have exploded mid-air resulting in different ELBA readings.

Well, it’s wikipedia though. You know how it is.

Rumour has it that there had been found children shoes and some clothes on a beach at Majene, West Sulawesi/Celebes. (I still don’t know the correct English term. Sulawesi or Celebes?)

So.
I can conclude that some immoral people have lied and given false hopes to the relatives of the missing ones.
How immoral.
Tsk.
I hope the plane will be found soon… The people need to know about their beloved ones.

Oh come on.

Update

Even weirder.

There is another emergency signal detected near Kendari, South East Sulawesi. To compare, take a look at the following map of Sulawesi again. Purple dot marks Kendari.

Update

Reuters reported that the part of the plane had been found and also that they found a woman’s body. Please see the news. 

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