Posted on 03/24/2015 3:55:35 AM PDT by Drago
30 minutes into distress signal, and little to no contact with air traffic. I got a bad feeling about this.
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.
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.
Planes crash, it happens. They aren’t 100% foolproof.
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.
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).
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’.
SKY News: A ‘very brief’ distress call was made when the Airbus A320 was at 6,800ft.
24/7 News will have pictures soon.
Thank you for the explanation and info.
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.
First thought: who was on the plane who dissed either Obola or Hitlery?
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.
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.
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).
“If it ain’t Boeing I’m not going!”
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’
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