The storm wasn't the main cause of AF447's disaster, though. They would have been fine going through the storm if the pilots had reacted differently.

The air france situation was not the same as this, with the training those pilots had on the air france flight, they were doomed either way because the pitot tubes were clogged and not giving a accurate speed reading, so they kept lifting the nose up as the plane kept slowing down which caused the plane to stall and hit the ocean. Turning around would not make any difference halfway through a nearly 12 hour flight.

Not you guys saying it may be a triangle scare me :-/ I'll fly the same path, and def cross the location on Saturday.

That's true, but they should have diverted around the storm in the first place - it's always risky flying through storms.

It was the factor that then cause pilot error, which could very well be the same situation here.

I can't imagine being the family members right now

The weather radar of the Air France aircraft didn't detect the larger, more severe storm behind the one that they saw and attempted to fly around, I believe. It blocked the signal from going through to get reflected off of the next one. This was a major contributing factor to them failing to avoid the storm.

How is this the third airplane from this area to suffer some cataclysmic ending, and not be found!

Malaysian airlines lost, the other one shot down for reasons unknown TO THIS DAY, and now this one not far from Malaysia. I'm sorry this doesn't just happen 3 damn times in one year. Lightning rarely strikes in the same place, let alone three times in the same year! These arent small private planes but Jumbo jets!. Smoke is rising and we will find the one responsible for the fire. This is too fishy now.

Speaking of. Why was the black box from the one shot down not released? I'm sure the pilots said something.

Guys, its basically confirmed that this one crashed due to weather issues so stop with the conspiracy theories. Although Flight 370's crash was definitely suspicious, I doubt any of the crashes this year were connected.

The second Malaysian Airlines one (Flight 17, the one that crashed in July) was shot down in Ukraine, not in the Indian Ocean like the first Malysian Airlines one (Flight 370) and this one (Air Asia Flight 8501). Its believed that Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian separatists.

My mom told me that CNN has been pre-empted for the last few days because the anchors are on holiday which is why its not being reported that much. In general though, lots of aviation accidents attract disproportionate media attention. The two Malaysian Airlines crashes this year were widely reported but I literally just found out about Air Algérie Flight 5017, which crashed in the Mali desert about a week after the Malaysian one in Ukraine and killed 118 people. Although that one was found pretty quickly and wasn't considered "missing"/"disappeared" which is probably why not as many people cared.

No its not. They said its very likely, but no one has confirmed anything. Just speculations. No single wreckage from the plane has been found so nothing can be certain for now.

They found unusual things on the sea. Looks like a life vest to me.

Still nothing? Unbelievable

The debris have been confirmed from the missing airplane

Thank god they found some wreckage from it, as well as potentially avictim already. At least the families will get closure

Omg

Thank God at least they found the bodies. Poor MH370 and its unsolved mystery

This is heartbreaking the media should leave the family members alone