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Posted on 03/24/2015 9:51:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
FULL TITLE: Search aircraft find the remains of Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 scattered all over an alpine mountainside: Riddle over why pilots didn't send SOS despite taking eight minutes to fall 32,000 feet
The final moments of Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 were shrouded in mystery today after air traffic controllers claimed they received no SOS despite the jet nosediving 32,000ft in just eight minutes.
All 144 passengers and six crew were today presumed dead after the Airbus A320 crashed in a remote region of the French Alps en route from Spain to Germany.
Two babies were among 45 Spanish on board and 16 children from the same school on an exchange trip were among some 100 Germans also feared to have died.
Images from the first rescue helicopters to reach the crash site showed wreckage scattered across hundreds of metres of mountainside, with some debris the size of a car.
Earlier reports quoted aviation sources in France as saying the pilots issued a Mayday distress signal and requested an emergency descent minutes before it hit the ground.
However, civil aviation authorities later denied that air traffic controllers received any such call.
'The aircraft did not itself make a distress call, but it was the combination of the loss of radio contact and the aircraft's descent which led the controller to implement the distress phase,' a spokesman for the French civil aviation authority said.
Germanwings chief executive Thomas Winkelmann said the aircraft began descending at 10.45am, a minute after reaching cruising height of 38,000ft.
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Good Heavens!
We do not know what happened, but the government and the lap dog media, are very quick to say it is NOT terrorism. If they say that, then I am automatically suspect.
Botched hijack attempt?
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I don’t see anything even remotely resembling and aircraft part.........and I used to work for a company that made them.............
We have reports crashed #Germanwings #4U9525 plane has ‘disintegrated,’ and ‘largest debris is the size of a car’.
French officer at Germanwings crash site says no apparent survivors; recovery likely to take days.
From reports we have, #Germanwings #4U9525 The plane is completely disintegrated. Debris spread over more than 2 kilometers.
500mph plus into hard rock?
I suppose that could be the result.
Disintegrated in flight. Not by impact. Guaranteed. I am an Airbus Captain.
Most likely a catastrophic event (bomb) at altitude, with disintegration at mid level altitude. A moderate explosion near the flight deck could accomplish this.
She can tell you about the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye.
Is it possible they had no idea that the mountain was there? Trying to get below could cover to look for an emergency landing spot?................
If the aircraft exceeded the limits of the airframe (which it appears to have done) then it could break apart prior to arriving at earth. At the speed it was traveling, the parts could break apart, also.
I’m astounded.
Prayers for the families and for the recovery workers.
I don’t see anything in the pic?
Forget the plane wreck. The Alps? Where is the snow? GloBull warmists want to know. /sarc
I believe you.
That’s the point. It looks like litter after a democrat public event..............
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