QZ8501 plane 'climbed too fast' before falling

AirAsia's QZ8501 increased too quickly before being stalled, and fell into the Java Sea, killing 162 people.

"In the last minute, the plane has risen at a speed beyond normal levels ," Telegraph quoted Indonesian Transport Minister, Ignasius Jonan, as saying to reporters after citing radar figures. "The plane suddenly increased in height with a speed exceeding the normal limit that it could reach. After that, it stopped."

At a previous parliamentary hearing, Jonan announced radar data that Air Asia's Airbus A320-200 had a time of elevation at more than 1.83km / min before the accident. There are several other planes in the area at the time.

Officials announced the cockpit recording device of AirAsia aircraft at Pangkalan Bun, central Borneo, Indonesia.(Photo: EPA)

"I think even combat jets are rarely high at 1.83km / min," he said. "For commercial aircraft, moving up to 0.3 km - 0.61km / min can be considered unusual, because it does not usually go up so fast at such speed."

Earlier, Reuters quoted aviation investigator Andreas Hananto as saying that his 10 investigators at the Indonesia National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) did not find any "threat" from the chamber recording device. drive QZ8501 flight. According to the expert, the evidence shows that no explosion occurred before the plane fell into the sea.

Flight number QZ8501 carrying 162 people disappeared from the radar screen on December 28, when it had not been able to fly halfway through the journey from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore. This Airbus A320-200 has fallen into the sea and no one survived. Currently divers have recovered the black boxes of the aircraft, along with some fragments and 53 bodies of the victims.

Indonesia Traffic Safety Commission (NTSC) said it did not detect signs that terrorism is the cause of the accident, and is currently considering other assumptions. Officials are expected to publish a preliminary report on the accident on January 28.