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Title: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Ptarmigan on March 24, 2015, 11:37:25 PM
Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minutes without issuing a distress signal?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germanwings-french-alps-crash-why-did-doomed-airbus-a320-descend-for-eight-minutes-without-issuing-a-distress-signal-10131005.html

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Airline officials say confusion continues to surround the final moments of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday morning.

All 150 passengers on board the plane are feared dead, as reports from the crash site suggest it could take “days” to recover the bodies of victims from an area of debris spanning kilometres.

President Francois Hollande has said there will be a full investigation into what caused the plane to plummet into the side of a mountain in a remote region 100 miles north of Nice, calling it “a tragedy on our soil”.

Another major airplane crash. This time in France.  :( :bawl:
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: obumazombie on March 25, 2015, 12:26:17 AM
The cause of the crash may never be known.
It almost makes me wish ptarmigans who may have witnessed the accident could speak.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: txradioguy on March 25, 2015, 04:02:36 AM
They've found the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR).  That will help shed light into what happened.

What they know right now:

No distress call.

Descended from 38 to 6 thousand feet in 8 minutes in what has been described as a "controlled manner".

Just passed a safety inspection Monday.

Terrorism has not been ruled out.


This is going to be a tough recovery effort.  No roads...the area is only accessable via helicopters or mountain guides.

Biggest pieces are about 10 sq ft in diameter.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Eupher on March 25, 2015, 09:35:18 AM
They've found the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR).  That will help shed light into what happened.

What they know right now:

No distress call.

Descended from 38 to 6 thousand feet in 8 minutes in what has been described as a "controlled manner".

Just passed a safety inspection Monday.

Terrorism has not been ruled out.


This is going to be a tough recovery effort.  No roads...the area is only accessable via helicopters or mountain guides.

Biggest pieces are about 10 sq ft in diameter.

"Controlled manner" or not, if the biggest pieces are that small, that's a serious auger-in. Of course, there ain't a whole lot of flat space in the French Alps.... :p
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: obumazombie on March 25, 2015, 12:44:56 PM
It will most definitely be categorized as CFIT.
I gotta believe there was hypoxia involved.
The TAWS would have been giving off all kinds of alarms.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Gina on March 25, 2015, 01:49:51 PM
How come the air traffic controllers didn't notice?
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: franksolich on March 25, 2015, 01:52:36 PM
Terrorism has not been ruled out.

I'm saying this without knowing the facts, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's it.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Gina on March 25, 2015, 01:54:35 PM
I'm saying this without knowing the facts, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's it.

That's right, piss off the Germans and Spainards  :yahoo:
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: thundley4 on March 25, 2015, 02:02:41 PM
How come the air traffic controllers didn't notice?

I think they did.  When the story was first breaking, there was a rumor of a distress call from the plane, but then they backtracked and said it was an emergency call from a control tower.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Ptarmigan on March 25, 2015, 10:56:25 PM
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?_r=0

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PARIS — As officials struggled Wednesday to explain why a jet with 150 people on board crashed in relatively clear skies, an investigator said evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane’s descent and was unable to get back in.

A senior military official involved in the investigation described “very smooth, very cool” conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf. Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” the investigator said. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”

This raises red flags.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: thundley4 on March 25, 2015, 11:16:07 PM
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?_r=0

This raises red flags.

Even some DUmmies are coming to that conclusion. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026415077
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: txradioguy on March 26, 2015, 05:23:53 AM
How come the air traffic controllers didn't notice?

IIRC they did and tried contacting the plane all the way until impact.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 26, 2015, 06:12:23 AM
Megyn Kelly had a former NTSB board member on last night.  Said guest said words to the effect that "there's a lot more that they know, but aren't telling anyone about, right now."  I'd be rather interested in finding out the identities of the pilots, their religions, their health histories (to include heart stress test results), etc.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: obumazombie on March 26, 2015, 07:03:35 AM
Megyn Kelly had a former NTSB board member on last night.  Said guest said words to the effect that "there's a lot more that they know, but aren't telling anyone about, right now."  I'd be rather interested in finding out the identities of the pilots, their religions, their health histories (to include heart stress test results), etc.

If one of the pilots was mohammed, he brought the mountain to him.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 26, 2015, 07:24:41 AM
If one of the pilots was mohammed, he brought the mountain to him.
Might be. One pilot was locked out of the cockpit and trying to break in when................


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germanwings-pilot-was-locked-out-of-cockpit-before-crash-in-france/ar-AA9Zy31?ocid=TSHDHP
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Gina on March 26, 2015, 09:02:54 AM
Just heard that the co-pilot purposely put the plane down and there are screams at the end of the recording.  He had been employed since 9/2013.  They are keeping his name under wraps.  ::)
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 26, 2015, 09:24:27 AM
On Drudge now.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012053/Andreas-Lubitz-Germanwings-flight-9525-French-alps-crash-French-alps-Germanwings-plane-crash-Airbus-A320-Barcelonnette.html

Apparently, the co-pilot was a 28-year-old German named Andreas Günter Lubitz.  He locked the pilot out of the cockpit.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: thundley4 on March 26, 2015, 11:28:36 AM
On Drudge now.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012053/Andreas-Lubitz-Germanwings-flight-9525-French-alps-crash-French-alps-Germanwings-plane-crash-Airbus-A320-Barcelonnette.html

Apparently, the co-pilot was a 28-year-old German named Andreas Günter Lubitz.  He locked the pilot out of the cockpit.

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Prosecutor says he does not believe disaster was terrorism or suicide
 

WTF does that mean? It was one of those or mass murder and suicide.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 26, 2015, 01:02:14 PM
 

WTF does that mean? It was one of those or mass murder and suicide.

Suicide . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11491587/Airbus-A320-crashes-in-French-Alps-with-148-people-on-board-live.html

He was effin' depressed.

So he flies a effin' Airbus full of innocent souls into the side of a mountain in the Alps.

What an asshole!
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: thundley4 on March 26, 2015, 01:39:11 PM
Suicide . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11491587/Airbus-A320-crashes-in-French-Alps-with-148-people-on-board-live.html

He was effin' depressed.

So he flies a effin' Airbus full of innocent souls into the side of a mountain in the Alps.

What an asshole!

Sounds like something a liberal would do. Make others suffer for their actions.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Gina on March 26, 2015, 02:27:23 PM
I would be so ashamed if I was his parent.  OMG What a horrible person.  Hope he rots in hell. :rant:
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: txradioguy on March 26, 2015, 04:13:36 PM
Just heard that the co-pilot purposely put the plane down and there are screams at the end of the recording.  He had been employed since 9/2013.  They are keeping his name under wraps.  ::)


(http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/video/876/493/032615_trs_pilot_640.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)


Andreas Lubitz, 28.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Gina on March 26, 2015, 04:20:46 PM
^ Looks like Tommy Hilfiger

so here is what I'm wondering......they knew his name and the news just said "they" scrubbed his facebook.   Why would they scrub his Facebook?  Shouldn't that be left out there so as to not let conspiracy theories begin? 

Also they say during the 10 minutes before the crash his breathing was steady and there was complete silence the whole time.  Guessing that means no movement or clicking of buttons, creaking of chairs etc....If he had passed out from hypoxia would his breathing be steady? 
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: txradioguy on March 26, 2015, 04:23:28 PM
^ Looks like Tommy Hilfiger

so here is what I'm wondering......they knew his name and the news just said "they" scrubbed his facebook.   Why would they scrub his Facebook?  Shouldn't that be left out there so as to not let conspiracy theories begin? 

Also they say during the 10 minutes before the crash his breathing was steady and there was complete silence the whole time.  Guessing that means no movement or clicking of buttons, creaking of chairs etc....If he had passed out from hypoxia would his breathing be steady?

The findings lead the investigators to believe that he was awake and alert and very calm during the entire episode.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 26, 2015, 05:54:25 PM
If you kill yourself, that's suicide....if you take 150 people with you, that's genocide.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Gina on March 26, 2015, 06:19:30 PM
YeH just heard the murderer disabled the door code for 5 minutes after the pilot tried to get in.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Happy Fun Ball on March 27, 2015, 09:24:45 AM
GERMAN NEWS REPORT: Co-Pilot of Germanwings Airbus Was MUSLIM CONVERT (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/breaking-german-news-germanwings-airbus-co-pilot-was-muslim-convert)

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GERMAN REPORT —HE WAS RADICALIZED!

    GERMAN CO-PILOT WAS MUSLIM CONVERT–
    — STAYED AT Bremen Mosque

Police have reportedly found an “item of significance” at the apartment of the co-pilot who crashed the Germanwing passenger plane into the Alps this week.
The item was NOT a suicide note.
Andreas Lubitz
28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz trained in the Phoenix, Arizona and is pictured here in San Francisco.

A German news website claims Andreas Lubitz was a Muslim convert.
Speisa.com reported:

    According to Michael Mannheimer, a writer for German PI-News, Germany now has its own 9/11, thanks to the convert to Islam, Andreas Lubitz.

    Translation from German:

    All evidence indicates that the copilot of Airbus machine in his six-months break during his training as a pilot in Germanwings, converted to Islam and subsequently either by the order of “radical”, ie. devout Muslims , or received the order from the book of terror, the Quran, on his own accord decided to carry out this mass murder. As a radical mosque in Bremen is in the center of the investigation, in which the convert was staying often, it can be assumed that he – as Mohammed Atta, in the attack against New York – received his instructions directly from the immediate vicinity of the mosque.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Gina on March 27, 2015, 10:38:36 AM
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/breaking-german-news-germanwings-airbus-co-pilot-was-muslim-convert/

Is Gateway Pundit credible?

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All evidence indicates that the copilot of Airbus machine in his six-months break during his training as a pilot in Germanwings, converted to Islam and subsequently either by the order of “radical”, ie. devout Muslims , or received the order from the book of terror, the Quran, on his own accord decided to carry out this mass murder. As a radical mosque in Bremen is in the center of the investigation, in which the convert was staying often, it can be assumed that he – as Mohammed Atta, in the attack against New York – received his instructions directly from the immediate vicinity of the mosque.

(http://2-ps.googleusercontent.com/hk/9dO3E1tyAM9FEJoQjUgzLfLy1j/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/498x852xlubitz-facebook-muslim-page-575x984.png.pagespeed.ic.7kZ2KAhCHXp4zR8__j6U.jpg)
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Eupher on March 27, 2015, 11:30:55 AM
If it's true, Welcome, Germany, to your own 9/11.

Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 27, 2015, 04:11:21 PM
If it's true, Welcome, Germany, to your own 9/11.

The Germans tend to be more . . . 'efficient' in dealing with this sort of problem. :whistling: :zap:
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 27, 2015, 04:19:06 PM
The Germans tend to be more . . . 'efficient' in dealing with this sort of problem. :whistling: :zap:
Fire up the ovens, 'same solution', different religion.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: thundley4 on March 27, 2015, 04:28:58 PM
Fire up the ovens, 'same solution', different religion.

No need for that, half of the world should be supporting them, this time.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: obumazombie on March 27, 2015, 05:43:08 PM
So they did bring mohammed to the mountain.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 27, 2015, 05:55:11 PM
Another source says he was muslim.

http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.1086/the-co-pilot-of-the-germanwings-airbus-was-a-convert-to-islam.html
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: SVPete on March 27, 2015, 08:44:01 PM
Gateway Pundit - Jim Hoft - is generally quite good. In this case he is relaying a report from a German media source. Frankly, as credible as it sounds to me, I'm very cautious of early reports of things. Early reports tend to be very incomplete, and have a lot of "facts" that are not; when there's a political narrative in the mix - e.g. Ferguson - it's even worse.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Ptarmigan on March 28, 2015, 12:03:00 AM
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz kept deadly mental illness secret from bosses
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/germanwings-co-pilot-andreas-lubitz-kept-5416012

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Andreas Lubitz kept a deadly secret from bosses that could have prevented the needless deaths of all 150 on board Flight 9525.

The 28-year-old co-pilot was signed off sick by two separate doctors for the day he plunged the Germanwings Airbus 320 into a mountain after locking his captain out of the cockpit.

But he never told his superiors he had been deemed unfit to fly as he feared he would be stripped of his pilot’s licence because of a history of depression and kicked out of the job he lived for.

This one caught my attention.

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He was nicknamed “Tomato Andy” because they believed he didn’t know if he was a “fruit or veg” – a reference to his sexuality.

One ex-workmate said it was slang term for a “straight who was really gay”.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: thundley4 on March 28, 2015, 06:06:58 AM
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz kept deadly mental illness secret from bosses
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/germanwings-co-pilot-andreas-lubitz-kept-5416012

This one caught my attention.

He was nicknamed “Tomato Andy” because they believed he didn’t know if he was a “fruit or veg” – a reference to his sexuality.

One ex-workmate said it was slang term for a “straight who was really gay”.


Oh great, along with making excuses for mental illness, the left will blame it on bullies.  :banghead:
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: SVPete on March 28, 2015, 09:06:29 AM
Oh great, along with making excuses for mental illness, the left will blame it on bullies.  :banghead:

Not to mention the Germans = Nazis stereotypes.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Ptarmigan on March 28, 2015, 12:05:09 PM
Oh great, along with making excuses for mental illness, the left will blame it on bullies.  :banghead:

What I meant to say, I wonder he might be some repressed homosexual. Gays can bully and lot of them do.

Victims Of Gay Bullying
http://victimsofgaybullying.wordpress.com/
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: sargentodiaz on March 28, 2015, 01:41:37 PM
GERMAN NEWS REPORT: Co-Pilot of Germanwings Airbus Was MUSLIM CONVERT …’Hero of Islamic State’? @ http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/breaking-german-news-germanwings-airbus-co-pilot-was-muslim-convert/
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: Ptarmigan on March 28, 2015, 03:23:01 PM
I remember hearing that Jihadists like recruiting newly converts to Islam as they are very fervent.
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: sargentodiaz on March 29, 2015, 10:06:07 AM
The Germanwings Co-pilot’s Non-Existent ‘Muslim Conversion’ says it was all a blogger buzz that was completely unfounded. Read @ http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/germanwings-co-pilot-s-non-existent-muslim-conversion_901589.html
Title: Re: Germanwings French Alps crash: Why did doomed Airbus A320 descend for eight minu
Post by: SVPete on March 29, 2015, 10:44:55 AM
The Muslim-convert story had a very Just-So-story feel to it. Hopefully investigators will be able to figure out what seems - to me at least - an incongruity between a depressed person committing suicide and a mass-murder--suicide.