Posted on 03/25/2015 9:29:47 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
The New York Times is reporting that a pilot was locked out of the cockpit of the Germanwings A320 plane which crashed Tuesday.
Evidence from a cockpit voice recorder reportedly reveals that one of the pilots left the cockpit and was unable to return...
More at Fox News http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/03/25/nyt-pilot-locked-out-cockpit-ahead-french-alps-crash
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Have they released the name of the pilots?????
Abdul something... lol
Sounds like the co pilot had plans.
So... no names released and no statement as to which of the two was locked out, eh? Hmmmm......
Reminds me of EgyptAir Flight 990!
It is not odd that the door was locked. They always are locked while the plane is in the air. Why did the other pilot not let him back in is the question.
And this is the downside of those reinforced cockpit doors when the problem is inside the cockpit.
We’ll never know of course. But I suspect this is the same thing that happened on mh370.
Not on US flights. US requires two people in the cockpit at all times, so a flight attendant would have to come in if a pilot or copilot went out.
the pilot in the cockpit could have suffered a severe medical emergency OR he could have meant to lock the door and had terror on his mind...
do cockpit doors automatically lock?
if they heard the talk and the tapping, then they must have a time associated with it I think...so they could match that up with the start of the descent...
Someone took the plane off autopilot and aimed the plane at the mountain.
Needed now, is the overall identification of both pilots.
Oddly, they have yet to release names of pilot and co-pilot.
They haven’t found the other black box (data recorder). I thought these things had pingers.
This is a duplicate. There is a long thread at the top of breaking news with over 300 replies.
Sorry, the other thread is a little further down on thee right with BREAKING on it, over 300 replies.
A lot of names have been released, but not the Cap and 1st officer. Strange.
Revenge drove pilot to crash plane, killing 217
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Friday 15 March 2002 20.18 EST
The co-pilot of EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed off New England in 1999, killing 217 people, deliberately crashed the plane as an act of revenge, according to a source close to the investigation.
Gamil el-Batouty had earlier been reprimanded for sexual misconduct and the executive who told him he would not be allowed to fly US routes again was on board the plane.
The report by the National Transportation Safety Board is due to be published shortly. It will conclude that el-Batouty forced the New York-to-Cairo plane down. The report will not attribute motives to him as to why he took the action nor will it suggest that he deliberately crashed the flight.
However, sources close to the investigation paint a picture of el-Batouty as a man facing ruin in the light of a series of allegations of sexual misconduct, including exposing himself to teenage girls, propositioning hotel maids and stalking female hotel guests.
On board the doomed flight was Hatem Rushdy, the chief of EgyptAir’s Boeing 767 pilot group, who had just reprimanded el-Batouty. He told him that as a result of his sexual activities he would not fly transatlantic routes - which carry extra pay - again.
“Rushdy told him ‘this is your last flight’ and el-Batouty’s attitude was ‘this is the last flight for you too’,” the former EgyptAir captain Hanofy Taha Mahmoud Hamdy told the Los Angeles Times.
A high-ranking member of the US team agreed. He said: “It was more revenge against Rushdy than just a suicide.”
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