Search aircraft find the remains of Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 scattered all over...

www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Updated: 11:36 EST, 24 March 2015 | By Simon Tomlinson and John Hutchinson and Gerard Couzens, Richard Spillett, Fidelma Cook et al

[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.

[Red Badger]

[Zuben Elgenubi]

What’s the current over/under on Moslem deplaning?

[trisham]

Holy cow!

[dfwgator]

Something doesn’t add up, with the plane being so far off course.

[Pan_Yan]

That is a stunning picture.

[Red Badger]

Looks like it disintegrated before it hit the ground.............

[trisham]

Yes.

[4yearlurker]

So the aircraft exploded and rained down from the sky? My local news station told me today that this is NOT a terrorist act.

[Red Badger]

Doesn’t look like a impact crash...............

[Rennes Templar]

What a recovery nighhtmare that will be!

[Red Badger]

Is your local news station run by democrats, liberals, moslems or all of the above?.................

[Pan_Yan]

It might not show the impact point, just the debris field around / below it.

[gaijin]

ROP

[Gamecock]

Well there you have it!

[SkyDancer]

The ROP spreading peace again?

[4yearlurker]

Its out of Pittsburgh,PA. so there you go.

[trisham]

No kidding.

[PghBaldy]

I would have thought if it exploded at altitude, the parts would be scattered over miles. Not sure what to think on this one.

[Darksheare]

It became Mohammed Brand Confetti prior to littering said mountainside, I bet.

[cripplecreek]

Video from the scene.

http://www.airlive.net/2015/03/breaking-crash-of-a320-in-south-of.html