BREAKING Russian Superjet-100 disappears in Indonesia during demo - Dozens of VIPs On-Board!!

Grandes and Grannys

But yet millions of other "elites" are still accounted for...Please, get off the crack train.

If it had run out of fuel there would have been time for the pilot/s and passengers to get the message out.

Likewise if it had simply run into the mountain there'd be locallers hearing so, the 2x mobiles destroyed (look at the A320 french crash into woodland to see the effect of such a crash even at low flight speed), not forgetting the plane would have already been at cloud base height anyway and would have taken avoiding action as it's last flight track is showing.

Definitely odd, but accidents in aviation are rarely (if ever) attributed to 1 factor alone.

In March, a Superjet 100 operated by Russia's Aeroflot Airlines was forced to abandon its flight to Astrakhan, Russia, and return to Moscow because of problems with the undercarriage, according to RIA Novosti.

A similar defect in another Aeroflot-operated Superjet 100 plane had to be fixed in Minsk in December.

Russia's state-run United Aircraft Corp. said the defect did not affect passenger safety.

[link to edition.cnn.com]

I think in the end we will find that the GPWS (ground proximity warning system) was turned off.
Why do i say that? Because if you look at my previous post on the crew requesting 6,000 ft would have set it off and taken over the plane to avoid the mountain.

so it's confirmed down in the terrain?

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Local reports here talk about Bogor (about 10miles from Mount Salak), and 3.30pm local time - I happened to be in Bogor at 3.30 local time. I would be surprised if the weather was very adverse as some above have mentioned - It was warm and dry at the foot of the mountains - and there weren't any reports of heavy rain/thunderstorms today.

Lucky? Or Mischievous? "...some of the invitees failed to go on board..."



“We have the passengers’ list, but we have to double check since some of the invitees failed to go on board and some others, who are on board, are not listed in the invitee list,” Sunaryo said.

[link to www.thejakartapost.com]

exactly

Not confirmed yet but it is well past it's fuel range so it's safe to say it's down.

Why the frack is Russia doing its test flights in Indonesia?

Why the hell would a plane request to descend in a mountain area?

What the hell is going on here?

A lot of people in these pics were most likely on board.

[link to gallery.me.com]

very VERY strange.

what's up with the dude in the poseidon outfit?

36 of the passengers.

1. Kornel M. Sihombing (Dirgantara Indonesia),

2. Edie Satiyo (Pelita Air),

3. Darwin Pelawi (Pelita Air),

4. Gatot Purwoko (Airfast),

5. Budi Rizal (Putra Arta Dirgantara),

6. Syafrudin (Carpedrem Mardin),

7. Peter Adler (Sriwijaya),

8. Herman Suladji (Air Maleo),

9. Donardi Rahman (Aviastar),

10. Eloni (Kartika),

11. Hurdiana Widjanda (Kartika),

12. Arief Wahyudi (TR),

13. Nam Tran (Snecma),

14. Ruli Dermawan (Indo Asia),

15. Ahmad Fazal (Indo Asia),

16. Insan Kamil (Indo Asia),

17. Edward Edo (Indo Asia),

18. Ismie (Trans TV),

19. Aditya Sukardi (Trans TV),

20. Indra Halim (PT KAI),

21. Rietyan S. (PT KAI),

22. Dody Aviantara (Angkasa),

23. Don Yusuf (Angkasa),

24. Femi (Bloomberg),

25. Stephen Kamaci (Indo Asia),

26. Capt. Aan (Kartika),

27. Yusuf Ariwibowo (Sky),

28. Maria Marcella (Sky),

29. Henny Stevani (Sky),

30. Mai Syarah (Sky),

31. Dewi Mutiara (Sky),

32. Sussana Vamella (Sky),

33. Nur Ilmawati (Sky),

34. Rossy Withan (Sky),

35. Anggi (Sky),

36. Aditya (Sky).

[link to www.thejakartapost.com]

Wow, these pictures gave me the chills... happy one minute, gone the next. So, so sad.

44 passengers onboard. 11 + 33. You get the picture...

sounds like a bunch of elites are, pardon the pun, taking off to go hide out.

Yeah that werided me out, too. I think it's Neptune? There's some interesting astrology links between Neptune and Indonesia as it goes. That picture was taken the day before, though. And the plane has different head rest covers. Maybe not the same flight..?

reports are fake. there's a russian blogger posting everything online in his twitter. you can follow up with the link below, still will require a translation for english-speakers: [link to sergeydolya.livejournal.com]

[link to twitter.com]

Its not unusual as a tradition on ships crossing the equator and obviously added as a bit of in-flight entertainment by the marketing squad. You get ice thrown down your shirt etc as a first time crosser of the equator. US Navy ships also do it.

strange

Can someone translate? Or can you expound on why the reports are fake?

I'm reading it, give me a minute :) would like to go from the beginning of his twitts, obviously this person is an insider to this. this is a picture he posted of himself in this plane yesterday [link to twitter.com]

this is the pilot of the jet, picture taken yesterday. [link to twitter.com]

[link to twitter.com]

pilots and crew... [link to twitter.com]

[link to twitter.com]

can we see the titanic...sorry I mean the jet passenger list?

...then we gonna decide if was technical or not

The plot thickens more...

A half-naked fat guy randomly dressed as Neptune is 'in-flight entertainment'??

Looks more like some sort of ritual being performed