Posted on 03/26/2015 5:21:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have deliberately crashed the plane after he was left alone in the cockpit, according to a French prosecutor.
The captain was intentionally locked outside minutes before the A320 crashed into an alpine mountain ridge, French Prosecutor Brice Robin said Thursday. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, a 28-year-old German national, was silent throughout the plane’s descent and was alive at the point of impact, according to the prosecutor.
Mr. Robin’s conclusions are drawn from the plane’s cockpit voice recorder, recovered at the crash site in the French Alps late Tuesday and analyzed by French accident investigators on Wednesday.
The recording contains screams believed to be from passengers, once they recognized the plane was crashing.
Investigators are now exploring why Flight 9525 went into its unauthorized descent from its 38,000-foot cruising altitude with one crew member absent. The descent led to the crash about 10 minutes later.
French air accident investigators said on Wednesday they extracted information from the jet’s cockpit voice recorder. The recording contained voices and other sounds, said Rémi Jouty, director of France’s aviation accident investigation office, which is leading the probe. He added that there was no explanation yet for why the plane went down.
Germanwings, the low-fare unit of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, hasn’t disclosed the identity of the pilots....
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
you’re the best....maggs..
It has emerged that one of the pilots on board the German Wings airbus was locked out of the cockpit. Here we examine how this could have happened and why safety procedures seem to have failed.
The co-pilot actively blocked the pilot's reaccess to the cockpit repeatedly by depressing a lever to block the keypad the pilot would use if needed.
Ditto.
I have been elucidated.
Presser
“for several months he interrupted his training.”
I can hear it now - his mom says, “He was such a kind and gentle boy... especially after those nice people from Syria taught him how to control his rage.” /sarc
Weeeeeell, that may be true... but getting inside the minds of certain people can be a terrifying thing.
I was there in 90-91. We were under the BK administrative umbrella.
“Dude, you know that ain’t true given the EuroWeenie ethos.”
Ah yes, those EuroWeenies and their gay friendliness.
Not like the big roughty-toughty good ol’ US of A, where people are regularly fired for being gay and no one ever gets summarily advanced for being gay, no siree not in the land of the free and the home of the brave, no promotion of gays or homosexuality in America.
Dude, have you being paying attention lately?
Officials say co-pilot in Germanwings crash trained in Goodyear, Ariz. - @abc15
Huh?
Independent:
Spohr says Lufthansa and Germanwings do not follow the procedure of ensuring there are always at least two people in the cockpit at any one time, as has become the norm in the US since the 9/11 attacks.
He says this is not observed in Europe, and wouldn’t have been done “by any of our competitors”.
4 minutes ago
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr is being asked about Lubitz’ training and psychological tests completed during the course of his time at flight school.
He says he passed all tests “with flying colours”.
Until they get the guy’s DNA and confirm it was him I would leave the possibility that a look-a-like terrorist killed him and used his ID to get into the cockpit.
My wife is always in a Bad Constadt...........
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Lufthansa CEO Spohr says the captain was “following his training exemplorarily” by waiting for the plane to reach cruising height before going to the toilet, addnig that the co-pilot was equally qualified to man the A320 on his own.
Must be his glider background.
“....Mr Robin said he had no known links with terrorism, adding: ‘There is no reason to suspect a terrorist attack.’
And asked whether he believed the crash that killed 150 people was the result of suicide, he said: ‘People who commit suicide usually do so alone... I don’t call it a suicide.’
Lubitz had just 600 hours of flying experience after joining Germanwings in 2013 straight from training.
He was, however, highly regarded, having won an award from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2013 for his outstanding flying skills.
A member of the LSC Westerwald flying club in Montabaur, he had a flat in Dusseldorf but also lived in Montabaur where he was raised, a town about 40 miles south east of Bonn.
His Facebook account lists his interests as aviation and music, including French DJ David Guetta.
In Montabaur, acquaintances today said Lubitz showed no signs of depression when they saw him last autumn as he renewed his glider pilot’s license.
‘He was happy he had the job with Germanwings and he was doing well,’ said a member of the glider club, Peter Ruecker, who watched Lubitz learn to fly. ‘He gave off a good feeling.’
Lubitz had obtained his glider pilot’s license as a teenager and was accepted as a Lufthansa pilot trainee after finishing a tough German college preparatory school, Ruecker said.
He described Lubitz as a ‘rather quiet’ but friendly young man.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012053/Andreas-Lubitz-Germanwings-flight-9525-French-alps-crash-French-alps-Germanwings-plane-crash-Airbus-A320-Barcelonnette.html#ixzz3VV2xjTzV
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The Nahe River runs through it and to the Rhine.
Well if that is the case, then obviously he committed mass murder. I guess now they will look into his history, if he had mental issues etc.
Independent:
Andreas Lubitz interrupted his training six years ago, we learn. But Spohr says that in any case where training is interrupted, the novice is tested upon their return before they are allowed to continue.
Lubitz went straight into work following his training with Germanwings in September 2013.
True. It is not a law in the US for 2 people to be in the flight deck. It is procedural. It has more to do with how the returning pilot gains access. The procedure permits access by visual identification, while the remaining pilot can stay strapped into their duty station.
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