Posted on 03/26/2015 5:25:15 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is recognizing Andreas Guenter Lubitz with inclusion in the prestigious FAA Airmen Certification Database.
The database, which appears on the agency's website at www.faa.gov, names Lubitz and other certified pilots who have met or exceeded the high educational, licensing and medical standards established by the FAA.
Pilot certification standards have evolved over time in an attempt to reduce pilot errors that lead to fatal crashes. FAA standards, which are set in consultation with the aviation industry and the public, are among the highest in the world.
Transportation safety experts strongly recommend against flying with an uncertified pilot. FAA pilot certification can be the difference between a safe flight and one that ends in tragedy.
The FAA recently announced that is it increasing the qualification requirements for co-pilots who fly for U.S. passenger and cargo airlines. These requirements mandate additional minimum flight time and training, as well as aircraft specific training.
"Safety will be my overriding priority as Secretary, so I am especially pleased to mark my first week by announcing a rule that will help us maintain our unparalleled safety record," said Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx in a press release. "We owe it to the traveling public to have only the most qualified and best trained pilots."
(Excerpt) Read more at aviation-business-gazette.com ...
Whoa!
Just found this on Facebook.
Soutien à Andreas Lubitz, héro de l’Etat Islamique
Support for Andreas Lubitz, hero of the Islamic State
I wonder if someone did this intentionally?!
Almost every word in this article about pilot certification is incorrect.
11 mins ago profile picture changed! There is a clue there, the SF Bridge.
I posted this on another thread too...makes you wonder what this young man was about. He was only 28. So bizarre.
That FB photo was changed only a few minutes ago.... curious.
Someone did that intentionally. There is no indication on Lubitz Facebook page that he has anything to do with IS or is a Muslim. (I’m not going to speculate like the MSM does, but I am not ruling anything out either.)
I had posted above that he is picture sitting with a view of the GoldenGate Bridge in SF. Perhaps a clue, like a target. I feel this guy was a muzzie.
It’s a fake page just created
I won’t click on any facebook links as they track every visitor. If you have a facebook account you are 100% directly linked as a viewer of the page.
What’s fake? The Aviation Gazette article? Or the Facebook?
And now the word "Facebook" is associated with "George from New England" in every search engine around the world.
You can live your life in fear or grab it by the balls and refuse to be a serf.
Liberals “feel”. Normal people “think”. I will reserve judgement until I see evidence.
It looked harmless when I saw it on Twitter, where fake FB creator prob found it.
The Facebook page. The picture was changed this morning so he couldn’t possibly have created this page himself.
Anyways, Peter Johnson is an ignorant, liberal a-hole with a below average IQ. He also acts like a fem. (You can ask me what I really think of him, if you like.)
Ok- I wasn’t referring to facebook. My link goes to an aviation Gazette article.
The reports of his number of hours is correct, hours of flight-time onboard the A320 that is.
He had to have been conscious to defeat the protocol that would have allowed the pilot to open the door from the outside, had the co-pilot been unconscious.
The remains of the day for the families is not going to pleasant, not for any who are involved with the forensics. The effects of this murder suicide will be reverberating through the lives of people for the next half-century, or more.
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