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Germanwings 9525 crash tragedy - March 2015; re-titled thread
Topic Started: Mar 24 2015, 10:07 PM (260 Views)
MSantor
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What a tragedy: :wow:

Yahoo News

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Live updates: Germanwings flight crashes in French Alps; 150 feared dead

Good morning. There is breaking news coming from France this Tuesday morning - an Airbus passenger jet carrying 142 passengers and six crew has crashed in the southern French Alps.

We'll provide minute by minute updates as we get them from this story.
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Edited by MSantor, Mar 24 2015, 10:07 PM.
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New York Times is reporting that one of the pilot's was locked out of the cockpit, and could not reenter. If this indeed the case, security measures to harden the cockpit taken after 9/11 may need a rethink to prevent situations like this in the future. Although, just listening to an interview with former pilot and member of an aviation safety group says that there are procedures in place that require a flight crew member to take the place of the pilot when leaving the cockpit, and apparently there are alternate means of entering the cockpit which he wold not reveal for security issues.

New York Times

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Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France

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.”

He said, “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”

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What a monster...a pilot suicide that killed so many. :wow:

Canadian Press

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Ignoring pilot and passengers' screams, Germanwings co-pilot deliberately destroyed plane
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PARIS - Ignoring the captain's frantic pounding on the door, the co-pilot of the Germanwings jet barricaded himself inside the cockpit and deliberately rammed the plane full speed into the French Alps as passengers screamed in terror, a prosecutor said Thursday.
In a split second, all 150 people aboard were dead.
Andreas Lubitz's "intention (was) to destroy this plane," Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said, laying out the horrifying conclusions French investigators reached after listening to the final minutes of Tuesday's Flight 9525 from the plane's black box voice data recorder.

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Reuters

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Germanwings crash co-pilot may have had detached retina: newspaper

By Maria Sheahan and Michael Nienaber

BERLIN (Reuters) - The co-pilot suspected of crashing a passenger jet in the Alps may have been suffering from a detached retina but investigators are unsure whether his vision problems had physical or psychological causes, a German newspaper said on Sunday.

Bild am Sonntag also reported how the captain of the Germanwings (LHAG.DE: Quote) Airbus had screamed "open the damn door!" to the co-pilot as he tried to get back into the locked cockpit before the jet crashed last Tuesday, killing all 150 on board.

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