Germanwings co-pilot 'accelerated' plane before Alps crash

Yahoo News ^ | April 3, 2015 | Richard Carter, Djallal Malti

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Information from the second black box found in the wreckage of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps confirms the co-pilot acted deliberately and even accelerated as the doomed plane descended, investigators said Friday.

"A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to descend the plane towards an altitude of 100 feet (30 metres)," said the French BEA crash investigation office in a statement.

"Then, several times during the descent, the pilot changed the automatic pilot settings to increase the aircraft's speed," added the investigators.

[Aliska]

What I posted was about finding the FDR. I knew they found the CVR but it was about a day after finding the FDR with the missing card. I read about the cell phone video found just a day or two ago, and it was glossed over or denied in an abc story this am.

It's probably true about the cell phone, and others may come to light although if your are a passenger in a life-ending panic, maybe the last thing most people would think of was making a video. It's good for history accuracy if one did though.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Ahhh, ok. So you’re a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Got it. Have a nice night.

[softengine]

Comment of the day.


"There’s still plenty of room for the occasional millenial loser gay douchebag."

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There’s still plenty of room for the occasional millenial loser gay douchebag.

Millenial loser gay douchebags are much more likely to throw a hissyfit in the cabin and post it to facebook than fly an airframe into a mountain. That's a mooselimb thing.

[onedoug]

islamist facilitator, regardless of his other “reasons”.

[10mm]

There has been absolutely no information released about his religion. Zero. Zip. Nada. If he were a Christiam, we'd know. If he were Jewish, it would have been in the first reports.

"The dog didn't bark."