Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
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Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
Just in case you haven't heard - An Airbus A320 Crashed in the Alps this morning;
Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps - BBC News
Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps - BBC News
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Re: Planespotting
The NY Times is reporting that the aircraft voice recorder is showing that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit before the crash. He is heard firstly knocking lightly, before harder and finally trying to break the door down. There is never a response from the cockpit. Yet another crash that is beyond the realms of strange. If the PIC passed out fr some reason, you would expect the aircraft to be on a/p during the cruise so the aircraft should have remained at its flight level. If it was pilot suicide, you would have thought a dive would have been performed rather than the reported 4,000 ft/min descent reportedbenign isn't exactly the descent of someone pushing forward on the stick to kill themsleves. Very strange.
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Re: Planespotting
The NY Times is reporting that the aircraft voice recorder is showing that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit before the crash. He is heard firstly knocking lightly, before harder and finally trying to break the door down. There is never a response from the cockpit. Yet another crash that is beyond the realms of strange. If the PIC passed out fr some reason, you would expect the aircraft to be on a/p during the cruise so the aircraft should have remained at its flight level. If it was pilot suicide, you would have thought a dive would have been performed rather than the reported 4,000 ft/min descent reportedbenign isn't exactly the descent of someone pushing forward on the stick to kill themsleves. Very strange.
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Re: Planespotting
The NY Times is reporting that the aircraft voice recorder is showing that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit before the crash. He is heard firstly knocking lightly, before harder and finally trying to break the door down. There is never a response from the cockpit. Yet another crash that is beyond the realms of strange. If the PIC passed out fr some reason, you would expect the aircraft to be on a/p during the cruise so the aircraft should have remained at its flight level. If it was pilot suicide, you would have thought a dive would have been performed rather than the reported 4,000 ft/min descent reportedbenign isn't exactly the descent of someone pushing forward on the stick to kill themsleves. Very strange.
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Re: Planespotting
It is, indeed, very strange. There are several scenarios being discussed, and none them are especially plausible, but presumably one of them happened. I wonder if there is enough left of the PIC to do any sort of drug/ tox analysis? Is it possible that there was someone else in the cockpit? Is it time to add video to the flight recorder data?
Now I think about it, I am also surprised that all this data isn't streamed and monitored in real time.
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Re: Planespotting
Dunno how reliable this is...
Germanwings co-pilot intended to destroy plane, says French prosecutor – live updates | World news | The Guardian
Germanwings co-pilot intended to destroy plane, says French prosecutor – live updates | World news | The Guardian
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Re: Planespotting
It's only a matter of time before it is streamed and monitored, ...... and connected to a flight computer that can take control of a pilotless plane, or override a suicidal pilot. The sooner this happens, the better.
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Re: Planespotting
I've heard everything from pilots not wanting their last moments on video to being afraid airlines will use to to get rid of pilots and pretty much everything in between.