[livius]

That’s what I thought...18 minutes, in which case the French could probably have gotten jets up there because I’m sure by then ATC had sent out an alarm that the flight was not responding.

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re: "I’m sure by then ATC had sent out an alarm that the flight was not responding."-livius

• France's air force says it scrambled a Mirage fighter jet to the area when the Germanwings flight lost radar contact, but arrived too late to help via Stripes.com.

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  Another albeit subtle clue surfaces: TheAge: ...French investigators have contacted German authorities to find more information about the co-pilot.

• Andreas Lubitz was a German national, 28 years old, but the prosecutor did not know his ethnic origin."