@airlivenet: #Germanwings CRASH Here is the 3D flight path from FlightAware
Posted on 03/24/2015 3:55:35 AM PDT by Drago
"An Airbus A320 has crashed in the southern French Alps, a security source has said." & "A Germanwings A320 has crashed in the southern French Alps, according to security sources."
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Spanish media reporting 20 German schoolchildren returning from an exchange among #4U9525 victims thelocal.de/20150324/germa…
Well, there are a lot of Muslims.
SKY News: Aviation journalist Anthony Davis says the Airbus A320’s rate of descent was “unprecedented”, suggesting a “catastrophic” event of some kind.
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Flightaware shows it was close to a normal descent, but unplanned, of course.
Independent:
15 of the victims were German students returning home after an exchange trip with Catalonia’s Giola Institute, a secondary school in Linars del Vallès, a staff member has reportedly told The Local.
a minute ago
Two Spanish TV channels say a group of German schoolchildren returning from an exchange were among the passengers on board, according to the AFP news agency.
It crashed high in a mountain range - helicopters are slow and struggle at high altitude. It’s why over a certain point rescue by helicopter becomes technologically impossible on Mount Everest.
Question: just looking at one of the graphics of FOX..seems to suggest that the flight path..out over the Med..diverges significantly from a near straight north heading to Dusseldorf...has this been confirmed?
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Flightaware shows it was a route similar to ones flown on previous days. Commercial aircraft fly on highways in the sky. They usually aren’t direct routes.
Hillary’s server was being shipped.
Some TV talking heads area saying that the plane had an orderly descent for 10-13 minutes. Cabin pressure problem? Auto pilot and incapacitated crew? Only one distress call? Weird.
It looks like the crash occurred near Digne, a town I visited in 1966 (we pronounced it “dig knee”). It’s located at the bottom of a deep valley in rugged terrain that reminds one of California’s San Gabriel Mountains.
Me: Perhaps not a bomb at altitude if “only” 5 acres?
Paris (AFP) - Colonel Jean-Pascal Breton, head of French air force information service SIRPA Air, explains the overflights by Mirage military planes, saying they went to the area of the crash to provide radio links between the various rescue services.
“At 1,700 metres, the radio doesn’t work as the mountains block signals. To coordinate the operation you need radio links. That is what the fighter aircraft are doing. So the helicopters talk via the airborne plane,” Breton says.
Other resources will be brought in this afternoon, possibly including an AWACS (surveillance) plane, he adds.
@airlivenet: #Germanwings CRASH Here is the 3D flight path from FlightAware
Dai Whittingham, from the UK Flight Safety Committee, told Sky News: “I suspect (the plane) was not at that altitude for the sake of being at that altitude. You don’t fly big airliners through the alps. You just don’t.
“So something has gone on…. The crew were clearly overwhelmed by whatever was going on.”
BBC: Flight #4U9525 initially climbed to 38,000 feet before it started to descend and lost signal at 6,800 feet.
Over 6 times the normal decent
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Germanwings flight 4U9525 received safety warning just four months ago after sister plane went into tailspin
Sister plane of that involved in today’s crash lost altitude late last year
Air safety agency sent out directive warning operators to be aware
Pilot in that incident pulled the plane out of the dive averting problems
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3009337/Germanwings-flight-4U9525-received-safety-warning-months-ago-sister-plane-went-tailspin.html#ixzz3VJJCRfib
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Naw. They are a religion of peace and love. Just ask Hussein Obama.
10,000’ altitude is not difficult for a helicopter.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/germanwings-airbus-a320-crash-live-5390012
The final words from the pilots on board the Germanwings flight were ‘emergency , emergency’.
It has been reported that the call came through just 45 minutes after the Airbus A320 took off from Barcelona on its way to Dusseldorf.
Earlier, the Airbus was in contact with Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Marseille, saying: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday”
According to the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAE) they also received a distress FA, which happens when a plane disappears from radars, or blacks out and all communications are cut with the cockpit.
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