How does the ground proximity warning work on this aircraft ? Which satellites does it navigate off? Russian or US GPS based ? Radar inop to determine terrain ?
all a bit scared, but the flight attendants take care of all professional, calm pic.twitter.com/dxi30I9P
(Name), we are on board, we can not communicate with anyone, just my work PPRuNe
(Name), everything is fine with the Superjet-100, I was on board, they say just a communication problem
The last one is just an hour old (as of now) so well after the Superjet was reported missing. So seems to be good news, if true. One of the comments on the latter photo suggests the interior shot is from a different type of aircraft.
Sergey Dolya @dolyasergey Trajectory of flight of the plane. It flew around the mountain and then abruptly changed a course and began sharp decrease where black arrows are
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all a bit scared, but the flight attendants take care of all professional, calm pic.twitter.com/dxi30I9P ... One of the comments on the latter photo suggests the interior shot is from a different type of aircraft.
That pic is certainly not consistent with other pics I've seen of the Superjet's interior. It appears to be more consistent with a 154 as mentioned in the comments.
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Sergey Dolya @dolyasergey Trajectory of flight of the plane. It flew around the mountain and then abruptly changed a course and began sharp decrease where black arrows are
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Without pre-empting anything experienced local pilots who know that area have come to grief in the past , there's some big mountains out there and the weather can change quickly and get violent.
Transportation Ministry air transport director general has not confirmed the Suhoi Superjet 100 to have crasjed because the body of the aircraft and it's passengers have not yet been found
Although close to a major town (Bogor) you can see on this map that the 2 mountains (Salak and Pangrango) are very remote and rugged. I've been off roading in this area (the much smaller mountain gunung bunder to the north) and there's some very wild country out there.
There's a major air force helicopter base 30kms away , if they weren't flying this afternoon looking for the aircraft it says something about the weather around those mountains.
The map posted before showed the aircraft lost contact in the vicinity of Mt Pangrango , the bigger of the 2.
