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 ...
This outcome is what a lot of us suspected yesterday. Intentionally crashed was the most likely reason.... Very sad.
There were a number of middle-easterners, especially Turks, in Bad Kreuznach, but I never recall seeing a mosque in my time there. Did you?
I had some Bad Kreuznach once...............was sick for days....................
French prosecutor Brice Robin said the passengers on flight 4U 9525 only realised “at the last moment” they were about to crash, because “we only hear the screams on the last moments of the recording”.
Opportunity.
He could not predict when the pilot would choose to use the restroom.
It would have been Nice or Monaco if the pilot had gone earlier, presumably.
Is there a criminal investigation already ? I’ll wait for a report from the trained investigators...
There is zero question that this was deliberate, as opposed to health-related. Airliners are not hand-flown at cruising altitude. This aircraft would have certainly been under the control of the autopilot/FMS at this point, and had the copilot been rendered unconscious for some reason it merely would have flown on in level flight until it ran out of fuel.
Or maybe he hated opera singers. There were two on board. (sheeeeesh)
Question is, had he become an ISIS sympathizer?
My thought in posting (that the action was a “country-song” suicide) hinges on the fact that the plane was clearly not directed toward an infidel suburb to eliminate as many non-muzz at the same time; not an ISIS/AlKIDA action).
This looks to me like a “depressive-state” suicide; and “I’ll take everyone with me!”
But, then-again, who am I? I ain’t no shrink and I certainly ain’t no DHS investigator.
An interesting twist might be that one aviator was locked out because he was schtupping the wife/girlfriend of the other? Juicy stuff, yes? Time will tell and, if the result is a “center fuel-tank spark”, well...you know that a Clinton was involved.
:-)
Well that accounts for the widespread debris. Those poor passengers were in absolute terror.......................
Probably not. The French prosecutor said it looks like he deliberately set the instruments to descend into the mountainside.
They thought he was certified. Turns out the was certifiable.
Correct. They’d have looked for a building to crash into.
Andreas Lubitz is the MASS murderer..................
Yes. I keep thinking about them.
(You know, I am an absolute genius! Either that or I've got ESP.)
I think you are correct.
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