Wednesday, 31 December 2014
CAS uphold Barcelona transfer ban
The
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld the transfer ban on FC
Barcelona, rejecting their appeal filed against FIFA’s verdict. This means that
the Spanish outfit will not be able to sign any player in 2015.
AC Milan want US $17.8 million for El Shaarawy
Italian
club AC Milan have set a £11.5 million price tag for winger Stephan El
Shaarawy, who has been linked with a move to Premier League sides Arsenal,
Liverpool and Manchester United.
Transfer Rumours: Gareth Bale going nowhere, says Perez
Real
Madrid president Florentino Perez has squashed rumours linking winger Gareth
Bale to Manchester United, saying that the Welshman is not for sale at any
price. The world’s most expensive player was being linked with a move to Old
Trafford but Perez denied receiving any bid for the Welshman.
Transfer rumours: Manchester City inquire about Bony
Transfer
Rumours: Bony to City? Bale going nowhere and more...
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has
made inquiries about Swansea City marksman Wilfried Bony, linking the Ivorian
to a possible move to the Etihad. City are short of strikers due to injuries to
Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko, thereby making Bony a suitable replacement.
Manchester City inquire about Wilfried Bony
AirAsia crash: Pilot’s son ‘thinks daddy is still at work’
The eight-year-old son of the crashed AirAsia aeroplane pilot “thinks daddy
is still at work”, his uncle said today.
Arya Galih Gegana’s remaining family
are shielding the young boy from the news his father Captain Irianto will not
come home.
"I told Galih that his father will
not be coming straight home because he has another job to do," Budi
Sutiono, the pilot’s 55-year-old brother, told the Daily Telegraph.
"He thinks daddy is still at
work.”
It is the latest tragedy for the family
– Mr Sutiono’s other brother was buried last week after dying from a heart
attack.
Inside the home the TVs are kept off,
with mourners carefully avoiding discussing the catastrophe near the young boy.
His mother Widya Sukarti Putri remains in her bedroom, emerging only
occasionally to check the news and greet the friends gathering to express their
sadness.
The boy's 22-year-old sister Angela
posted on Twitter yesterday: "Papa come back, I still need you," with
pictures of the two together.
"Slowly
we will try to explain what has happened to his father,” Mr Sutiono said.
“But it
needs time. We still haven't worked out exactly how we will say it. I need time
myself to accept what happened to my brother."
Victims’
families are coming to terms with the loss and discovery of AirAsia Flight
QZ8501, which disappeared on Sunday with 162 people on board.
Read more: Pilot describes seeing victims 'holding
hands'
21 most powerful photos from the crash
First stories behind tragic victims
21 most powerful photos from the crash
First stories behind tragic victims
An
international search found debris and bodies off the coast of Borneo yesterday
morning, with a pilot reporting that he saw bodies “holding hands” as they were
pulled from the water.
A sonar
image has revealed what appears to be the outline of the aircraft lying upside
down roughly 30 meters under the water.
In
pictures: The 21 most powerful images from search for missing AirAsia flight
QZ8501
Seven
bodies, four men and three women, have been recovered so far. Two of the bodies
have been retrieved with their clothes intact and one body was found wearing a
life jacket.
The finds are significant as it may indicate that
the aircraft was intact when it hit the water, a theory supported by the
“fairly contained” accumulation of debris found so far.
AirAsia victim with life jacket raises questions
AirAsia victim with life jacket raises questions about plane's last moments
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an Indonesian search and rescue official said, raising new questions about how the disaster unfolded.
Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large, dark object beneath waters near where debris and bodies were found on the surface.
Ships and planes had been scouring the Java Sea for Flight QZ8501 since Sunday, when it lost contact during bad weather about 40 minutes into its flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.
Seven bodies have been recovered from the sea, some fully clothed, which could indicate the Airbus A320-200 was intact when it hit the water. That would support a theory that it suffered an aerodynamic stall.
The fact that one person put on a life jacket suggests those on board had time before the aircraft hit the water, or before it sank.
And yet the pilots did not issue a distress signal. The plane disappeared after it asked for permission to fly higher to avoid bad weather.
"This morning, we recovered a total of four bodies and one of them was wearing a life jacket," Tatang Zaenudin, an official with the search and rescue agency, told Reuters.
He declined to speculate on what the find might mean.
A pilot who works for a Gulf carrier said the life jacket indicated the cause of the crash was not "catastrophic failure". Instead, the plane could have stalled and then come down, possibly because its instruments iced up and gave the pilots inaccurate readings.
"There was time. It means the thing didn't just fall out of the sky," said the pilot, who declined to be identified.
He said it could take a minute for a plane to come down from 30,000 feet and the pilots could have experienced "tunnel vision ... too overloaded" to send a distress call.
"The first train of thought when you get into a situation like that is to fly the aircraft."
Most of those on board were Indonesians. No survivors have been found.
Hernanto, head of the search and rescue agency in Surabaya, said rescuers believed they had found the plane on the sea bed with a sonar scan in water 30-50 meters (100-165 feet) deep. The black box flight data and cockpit voice recorder has yet to be found.
Authorities in Surabaya were making preparations to receive and identify bodies, including arranging 130 ambulances to take victims to a police hospital and collecting DNA from relatives.
"We are praying it is the plane so the evacuation can be done quickly," Hernanto said.
Strong wind and waves hampered the search and with visibility at less than a kilometer (half a mile), the air operation was called off in the afternoon.
"We are all standing by," Dwi Putranto, heading the air force search effort in Pangalan Bun on Borneo, told Reuters.
"If we want to evacuate bodies from the water, it's too difficult. The waves are huge and it's raining."
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said his priority was retrieving the bodies.
Relatives, many of whom collapsed in grief when they saw the first grim television pictures confirming their fears on Tuesday, held prayers at a crisis center at Surabaya airport.
AirAsia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes has described the crash as his "worst nightmare".
EXPERIENCED PILOT
The plane was traveling at 32,000 feet (9,753 meters) and had asked to fly at 38,000 feet. When air traffic controllers granted permission for a rise to 34,000 feet a few minutes later, they received no response.
Online discussion among pilots has centered on unconfirmed secondary radar data from Malaysia that suggested the aircraft was climbing at a speed of 353 knots, about 100 knots too slow, and that it might have stalled.
Investigators are focusing initially on whether the crew took too long to request permission to climb, or could have ascended on their own initiative earlier, said a source close to the inquiry, adding that poor weather could have played a part as well.
The Indonesian captain, a former air force fighter pilot, had 6,100 flying hours under his belt and the plane last underwent maintenance in mid-November, said the airline, which is 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia.
Three airline disasters involving Malaysian-affiliated carriers in less than a year have dented confidence in the country's aviation industry and spooked travelers.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing in March on a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew and has not been found. On July 17, the same airline's Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
On board Flight QZ8501 were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain. The co-pilot was French.
The AirAsia group, including affiliates in Thailand, the Philippines and India, had not suffered a crash since its Malaysian budget operations began in 2002.
(Additional reporting by Cindy Silviana, Charlotte Greenfield and Michael Taylor in JAKARTA/SURABAYA/PANGKALAN BUN, Jane Wardell in SYDNEY and Anshuman Daga in SINGAPORE; Writing by Mark Bendeich and Robert Birsel; Editing by Nick Macfie)
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an Indonesian search and rescue official said, raising new questions about how the disaster unfolded.
Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large, dark object beneath waters near where debris and bodies were found on the surface.
Ships and planes had been scouring the Java Sea for Flight QZ8501 since Sunday, when it lost contact during bad weather about 40 minutes into its flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.
Seven bodies have been recovered from the sea, some fully clothed, which could indicate the Airbus A320-200 was intact when it hit the water. That would support a theory that it suffered an aerodynamic stall.
The fact that one person put on a life jacket suggests those on board had time before the aircraft hit the water, or before it sank.
And yet the pilots did not issue a distress signal. The plane disappeared after it asked for permission to fly higher to avoid bad weather.
"This morning, we recovered a total of four bodies and one of them was wearing a life jacket," Tatang Zaenudin, an official with the search and rescue agency, told Reuters.
He declined to speculate on what the find might mean.
A pilot who works for a Gulf carrier said the life jacket indicated the cause of the crash was not "catastrophic failure". Instead, the plane could have stalled and then come down, possibly because its instruments iced up and gave the pilots inaccurate readings.
"There was time. It means the thing didn't just fall out of the sky," said the pilot, who declined to be identified.
He said it could take a minute for a plane to come down from 30,000 feet and the pilots could have experienced "tunnel vision ... too overloaded" to send a distress call.
"The first train of thought when you get into a situation like that is to fly the aircraft."
Most of those on board were Indonesians. No survivors have been found.
Hernanto, head of the search and rescue agency in Surabaya, said rescuers believed they had found the plane on the sea bed with a sonar scan in water 30-50 meters (100-165 feet) deep. The black box flight data and cockpit voice recorder has yet to be found.
Authorities in Surabaya were making preparations to receive and identify bodies, including arranging 130 ambulances to take victims to a police hospital and collecting DNA from relatives.
"We are praying it is the plane so the evacuation can be done quickly," Hernanto said.
Strong wind and waves hampered the search and with visibility at less than a kilometer (half a mile), the air operation was called off in the afternoon.
"We are all standing by," Dwi Putranto, heading the air force search effort in Pangalan Bun on Borneo, told Reuters.
"If we want to evacuate bodies from the water, it's too difficult. The waves are huge and it's raining."
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said his priority was retrieving the bodies.
Relatives, many of whom collapsed in grief when they saw the first grim television pictures confirming their fears on Tuesday, held prayers at a crisis center at Surabaya airport.
AirAsia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes has described the crash as his "worst nightmare".
EXPERIENCED PILOT
The plane was traveling at 32,000 feet (9,753 meters) and had asked to fly at 38,000 feet. When air traffic controllers granted permission for a rise to 34,000 feet a few minutes later, they received no response.
Online discussion among pilots has centered on unconfirmed secondary radar data from Malaysia that suggested the aircraft was climbing at a speed of 353 knots, about 100 knots too slow, and that it might have stalled.
Investigators are focusing initially on whether the crew took too long to request permission to climb, or could have ascended on their own initiative earlier, said a source close to the inquiry, adding that poor weather could have played a part as well.
The Indonesian captain, a former air force fighter pilot, had 6,100 flying hours under his belt and the plane last underwent maintenance in mid-November, said the airline, which is 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia.
Three airline disasters involving Malaysian-affiliated carriers in less than a year have dented confidence in the country's aviation industry and spooked travelers.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing in March on a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew and has not been found. On July 17, the same airline's Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
On board Flight QZ8501 were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain. The co-pilot was French.
The AirAsia group, including affiliates in Thailand, the Philippines and India, had not suffered a crash since its Malaysian budget operations began in 2002.
(Additional reporting by Cindy Silviana, Charlotte Greenfield and Michael Taylor in JAKARTA/SURABAYA/PANGKALAN BUN, Jane Wardell in SYDNEY and Anshuman Daga in SINGAPORE; Writing by Mark Bendeich and Robert Birsel; Editing by Nick Macfie)
First stories behind tragic victims of crash emerge
Details are emerging
slowly of the lives of the tragic victims of AirAsia crash as recovery teams
work to retrieve the bodies off the coast of Borneo.
Ruth Natalia Puspitasari, her
fiance, Bob Hartanto Wijaya
Ms Puspitasari would have turned
26 yesterday had she not been on the flight with her fiancé and his parents,
ahead of celebrating her birthday in Singapore. The economics student, who met
her future husband while studying at Petra Christian University in Surabaya,
Indonesia, had recently moved to Guangzhou Province in China but her fiancé had
stayed behind after becoming co-owner of a toy shop in his home town of Malang.
Siau Alain Octavianus
Octavianus was enjoying a family
holiday before getting married to fiancé Louise Sidharta. Sidharta heard the
news of the flight’s disappearance as she travelled to the airport to pick him
up. "It was to be his last vacation with his family," she told CNN.
Sri Ratri Andriani
Worked as a travel agent and was
travelling to Singapore as a guide for local tourists. Two days ago her elder
brother Doni Nur Wahyu told the Wall Street Journal: ““I hope my sister is
still safe.” He will be among those hundreds mourning lost loved ones today.
Lindawati Anggara
Only a high school student, he was on a
family holiday with his father Rudy Soetjipto Lindawati Anggara mother, and his
brother Kevin Alexander Soetjipto. He told a teacher before he left he was
going to Singapore to celebrate the New Year.
Reggy Ardhi, Caroline Harwon
Lioe, Marianne Claudia Ardhi, Michelle Clemency Ardhi and Jayden Cruz
Ardhi
Travelling to Singapore to celebrate
New Year as a family, Jayden, Marianne and Michelle were students at a local
high school. Raven Limadinata told CNN he received a message from Michelle as
the plane took off, captioned: “by Surabaya.” He described her as a “smart
girl”.
Choi Chi Man, Zoe Man Suen Choi
The only British national on board the
AirAsia flight, he had just started a job as an executive. He was travelling
with his two-year-old daughter Zoe.
Nico Giovanni, Justin Giovanni
The 18-year-old scholarship student had
recently completed his first year at the Anglo-Chinese School. A friend told
the Straits Times Nico Giovanni was “very reserved” but “hard-working and
respectful”. It is believed he was with his parents and brother Justin on the
plane.
Feilensia Sularmo Go,
Mrs Sularmo Gos brother said she was
travellign with her family. He told the Wall Street Journal: “I’ve never felt
such [terrible] feeling like this before. I’m very close to my sister”.
Sukiatma Haripin, Hermanto
Tanus, Indahju Liangsih, Susiyah and Thejakusuma
Only 17 years old, Sukiatma Haripin was
travelling with his whole family – including his younger brother, nine-year-old
Thejakusuma.
The family were travelling to Singapore
in order to meet see their daughter Chiara Natasya Tanus who was studying in
the city.
Jo Indri, Charlie Gunawan, Jie
Steven Gunawan, Jie Stevie Gunawan, Kayla Audrey Gunawan, Kenneth Mathew
Gunawan, Hendra Gunawan Syawal
Jo Indri had decided to go to Singapore
with five other members of her family. Her daughter explained they were all too
busy to celebrate Christmas together. "There was not enough time to even
go to the cinema,” she told to Channel Asia two days ago. “I am not too
concerned but my nephew dreamt of Jo Indri wearing a very beautiful dress.
Hopefully, it is not a bad sign."
In pictures: Missing AirAsia flight
QZ8501
Gusti Made Bobbi Sidharta,
Donna Indah Nurwatie, Gusti Ayu Putriyana, Gusti Ayumade Keisah
The couple were travelling together
with their two children 16-year-old Putriyana and nine-year-old Keisah.Family
member, Dimas Ade Nurcahyo described the “whole family” as “very nice
people".
Jimmy Sentosa Winata Oei, Boby
Hartanto Winata, Ingrid Jessica Winata
The family were travelling together -
Jimmy Sentosa Winata Oei’s was at first relieved when she saw the news. “My
brother never flies AirAsia,” she told KPLR11. Then she saw his name and the
names of her nephew and niece on TV screen. Her nephew, Boby, was a Manchester
United and FC Barcelona supporter.
Chung Hei Sii
The only Malaysian on board the plane,
is believed to have worked for a timber company and frequently travelled
between Sinagpore and his home state of Sarawak.
Kevin Alexander Soetjipto,
Cindy Clarissa Soetjipto, Rudy Soetjipto
Brother and sister were seated next to
one another and a relative on the plane. Kevin Soetjipto was a student at
Monash University. A spokesperson for the school told the Herald Sun the
community was “deeply saddened to learn this news” of its “valued student”.
Florentina Maria Widodo
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