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Passenger plane crashes in French Alps (Airbus A320 - 148 Onboard?)
The Local - Fr ^ | 03/24/2015 | Oliver Gee

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1; 4u9525; a320; airbus; airbusa320; alps; aviation; barcelona; crash; daipx; dusseldorf; europeanunion; france; french; germanwings; germany; lufthansa; nato; planecrash; spain; turkey
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To: Drago

30 minutes into distress signal, and little to no contact with air traffic. I got a bad feeling about this.


21 posted on 03/24/2015 4:43:36 AM PDT by mware
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To: Riflema

I STAND CORRECTED. That flight seems to flies off the direct track every day. Still could be our pals, but nothing odd about its location.


22 posted on 03/24/2015 4:45:11 AM PDT by Riflema
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To: csvset

The dotted line is just a “point A to point B line” on FlightRadar24...that flight usually swings out “to the right” on the map plot...you can see prior days flight plots for that flight # here: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GWI9525/history/20150324/0835Z/LEBL/EDDL

Usually about a 1 hour 40 minute flight.


23 posted on 03/24/2015 4:47:12 AM PDT by Drago
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To: SW6906

Planes crash, it happens. They aren’t 100% foolproof.


24 posted on 03/24/2015 4:48:42 AM PDT by Monty22002
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BBC: Bodies of victims are being taken to an emergency morgue set up at a gymnasium in village of Seyne-Les-Alpes.

France’s DGAC aviation authority confirmed the A320 crashed near the town of Barcelonnette about 100 km (65 miles) north of Nice. The prime minister’s office said the crash happened in Meolans-Revel, a remote commune in the foothills of the French Alps.


25 posted on 03/24/2015 4:48:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Drago
Bodies and debris scattered over a wide area of ground.
26 posted on 03/24/2015 4:49:21 AM PDT by mware
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Map showing crash location and flight route
27 posted on 03/24/2015 4:49:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Associated Press saying debris from the crash has been located. The crash site in the Alps was at an altitude of 2,000m (6,560ft).


28 posted on 03/24/2015 4:51:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SW6906

I flew on an American MD80 that was pretty old, and I felt safer on it than the Airbus that I was on the way back. Just how it is sometimes. I really don’t like Airbus. They seem cheap inside and out and ‘disposable’.


29 posted on 03/24/2015 4:54:13 AM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Drago

SKY News: A ‘very brief’ distress call was made when the Airbus A320 was at 6,800ft.


30 posted on 03/24/2015 4:54:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: mware
Bodies and debris scattered over a wide area of ground.

24/7 News will have pictures soon.

31 posted on 03/24/2015 4:55:08 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker/Cruz 2016)
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To: Drago

Thank you for the explanation and info.


32 posted on 03/24/2015 4:55:38 AM PDT by csvset
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33 posted on 03/24/2015 4:55:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Drago
They're going to have to look at the black box data and find out if the recorders kept on recording right up to the time of the crash. If it did, they'll have to compare it against what happened to Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 late last year.

One intriguing possibility: the pitot tubes in the nose froze up and gave erroneous readings to the fly-by-wire computers, causing the plane to go out of control. That was what likely happened to Air France Flight 447 some years ago, an Airbus A330-200 airliner with a fly-by-wire system commonly used by Airbus.

34 posted on 03/24/2015 4:55:59 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Drago

First thought: who was on the plane who dissed either Obola or Hitlery?


35 posted on 03/24/2015 4:57:25 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: RayChuang88
... a fly-by-wire system commonly used by Airbus.

Boeing uses fly-by-wire also. There is nothing wrong with it.

The Air France A330 crash was due to crew stupidity, not the aircraft.

36 posted on 03/24/2015 4:58:24 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker/Cruz 2016)
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BBC: Captain Benoit Zeisser of the Digne-le-Bains police tells French TV network iTele the cloud ceiling in the crash area was not low and there did not appear to be turbulence.


37 posted on 03/24/2015 4:58:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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This site has the oldest A320s in Lufthansa’s current fleet delivered in 1989, and the oldest 737s in their fleet delivered in 1991.

http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Lufthansa

(They sell the older ones off, or get a few more years out of them on the “Germanwings” routes).


38 posted on 03/24/2015 4:58:45 AM PDT by Drago
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To: Monty22002

“If it ain’t Boeing I’m not going!”


39 posted on 03/24/2015 4:59:51 AM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Weather conditions were calm at the time of the crash, French weather reports say - @la_chaine_meteo

A resident of Prads-Haute-Bléone in southern France, described the plane crash location to @francetvinfo: ‘This is a difficult area to access. Only helicopters can go, or it takes several hours of walking, at least three’


40 posted on 03/24/2015 5:00:35 AM PDT by McGruff (Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency - Barack Obama 2009)
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