Pieces of AdamAir Jet Missing for 10 Days Located

[SamSagnella]

With echoes of the Sago Mine Disaster's tragic flurry of misinformation, Indonesian officials are now recanting their earlier statements that wreckage and 12 survivors of a missing Adam Air B737-400 had been found. The information indicating that the jet had been located was later identified as incorrect and came from rumors spread by villagers in the remote areas of Sumatra. The U.S. embassy in Jakarta is now confirming that three American citizens were in fact aboard the ill-fated two-hour flight from Java to Sulawesi. Though the embassy has yet to identify the Americans, The Oregonian newspaper has identified the three as a father and two daughters from the Bend, Oregon area. The two daughters, both reported to be University of Oregon students, were apparently visiting their father, who works for P.T. Fendi Mungil, an Indonesian manufacturing company (again, according to OregonLive.com).

My thoughts and prayers are with all passengers and families involved in the mystery surrounding the fate of Adam Air Flight 574.

[JonathanBelles]

this is a tragic story.

[SamSagnella]

We're now six days into this mystery, and rescue crews (numbering in the thousands) are scouring hundreds of square miles of land and water. I can't imagine what these families are going through, and hopefully some news breaks soon for their sake.

AllHeadlineNews- Indonesia Steps Up Search For Missing Passenger Plane
Yahoo! News- Indonesia beefs up search for missing airliner
Jakarta Post- Adam Air families vent frustration at VP

[Rainband]

Sad Prayers on the way to the families.

[Brent]

This is just horrible, to not know what happened to the plane so many days later.

[SamSagnella]

MAKASSAR, Indonesia — An Indonesian navy ship has detected metal on the ocean floor that might be the wreckage of a jetliner that disappeared one week ago with 102 people on board, a top commander said Monday.

FOX News: Metal on Sea Bed Detected in Search for Missing Indonesia Airliner

Hopefully this metal found is the first concrete evidence as to the whereabouts of this missing jetliner -- today is Day 7.

[fwbbreeze]

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Looks like the US Navy is lending a hand!!

The USNS Mary Sears, which has sonar and satellite imagery capabilities, has been called in to see if the metal is part of Adam Air Flight KI-574, which fell off radars in the area during 80 mph winds

fwbbreeze

[fwbbreeze]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_ ... esia_plane

Looks like the US Navy is lending a hand!!

The USNS Mary Sears, which has sonar and satellite imagery capabilities, has been called in to see if the metal is part of Adam Air Flight KI-574, which fell off radars in the area during 80 mph winds

fwbbreeze

[SamSagnella]

Finally...

Washington Post-- Wreckage of missing Indonesian airliner found