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Passenger plane crashes in French Alps (Airbus A320 - 148 Onboard?)
The Local - Fr ^ | 03/24/2015 | Oliver Gee

Posted on 03/24/2015 3:55:35 AM PDT by Drago

"An Airbus A320 has crashed in the southern French Alps, a security source has said." & "A Germanwings A320 has crashed in the southern French Alps, according to security sources."

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1; 4u9525; a320; airbus; airbusa320; alps; aviation; barcelona; crash; daipx; dusseldorf; europeanunion; france; french; germanwings; germany; lufthansa; nato; planecrash; spain; turkey
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Time of Useful Consciousness at 39,000 ft would be 15-20 seconds (approx., with no immediate supplemental oxygen) if there were a rapid depressurization. It would be extremely uncomfortable and immediately noticeable, and the cockpit would fill with condensation vapor (like smoke). Nonetheless, aircrew are trained to don readily available oxygen equipment immediately and they would begin "pressure breathing" and not pass out. If it were not a rapid decompression, there are cockpit warnings set up for when a certain cockpit altitude is reached an alarm would sound and warning lights display. They could then don their oxygen gear quickly.

It sounds as if the aircraft was in a controlled descent and the power must have been pulled back, possibly speed brakes used. "Somebody" was controlling the aircraft on the way down but "somebody" may have been the autopilot if it were set by the pilot at altitude for a controlled but rapid descent but it seems the pilot was perhaps no longer in control shortly thereafter. I suspect a pilot set the aircraft for an emergency descent, perhaps shortly after donning an oxygen mask.

However, the lack of radio communication with the ground is unusual. Notice of an emergency descent would have been given to Air Traffic Control by the pilot as soon as the situation was under control and the pilot had time to transmit, I would think. Therefore, it is probable the pilot(s) were incapacitated quickly after descent was initiated but before they could take other actions - either donning masks or calling ATC.

The debris field looks like a mid-air explosion. That is suspicious and does not look like the aircraft was flown uncontrolled into the ground but destroyed prior to impact at some altitude above it.

Methinks it is way too early to rule out terrorism, but the black box should tell the tale.

281 posted on 03/24/2015 1:31:50 PM PDT by Gritty (Obama is fighting on the side of our enemies, therefore, committing treason - David Meir-Levy)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Reading through the threads, I was wondering about this myself. Perhaps depressurizing by remote control, messing with the oxygen devices in some way, etc.

With all the talk about driverless cars being controlled remotely, and hacked... we certainly live in uncertain times.


282 posted on 03/24/2015 1:35:46 PM PDT by jacquej ("You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." (Mark Steyn))
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To: CivilWarBrewing

On planes I’m familiar with the pilot, or someone else in the cockpit, has control over both cabin heat and supplemental oxygen. If both heat and oxy go off at , say 30,000 feet, the passengers could be frozen stiff in a matter of minutes. I always suspected something like that happened with the Malaysian plane since none of the passengers seemed to try to get off a cell phone call. They were’nt out of range of civilization initially.


283 posted on 03/24/2015 1:39:15 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: All

Article with pics here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3009151/headlines-news-Germanwings-plane-crash-french-alps-crash-Airbus-A320-Barcelonnette-Barcelona-Dusseldorf-francois-hollande-Lufthansa-4U9525.html


284 posted on 03/24/2015 1:39:55 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Drago

was there any unusual cargo?

cash
gold
diamonds
artwork
thermite
mangosteens
?


285 posted on 03/24/2015 1:49:50 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Gritty
That's why I said a sudden decompression of the passenger cabin is a real possibility. Remember what happened on the private jet Payne Stewart was flying on in 1999--the decompression happened so fast that the flight crew had no chance to quickly react to get the plane to a safer altitude.

If the Germanwings flight crew had one member donning an oxygen mask (mandatory for all flights above 30,000 feet according rules for international civil aviation organizations), even if the cockpit had a sudden decompression the flight crew member wearing the oxygen mask would easily have time to safely bring the plane down to around 12,000 feet altitude, which is the upper limit for passengers flying in an airplane with an unpressurized cockpit. That is unless both crew members did not wear an oxygen mask when the decompression occurred, which would incapacitate both crew members within 15-20 seconds flying above 30,000 feet.

286 posted on 03/24/2015 1:50:06 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Eva
"I read that there was an alert from an air traffic controller who saw the plane veer off course in his screen. Others said that the normal route should have been over the Pyrhanees, not the Alps."

The route varies due to weather/traffic...this link has previous days routes plotted, here is March 18 & they went over central France that day: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GWI9525/history/20150318/0835Z/LEBL/EDDL

287 posted on 03/24/2015 1:54:35 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Gritty

Sure does look to me, from these pics, like it came apart in the air. The debris field is like it fell thru a sifter. I don’t see a skid mark. And fron seven miles up it still would take five or more minutes for it all to hit the ground. If it had started down before it got shredded that would explain the apparent nine minute descent.


288 posted on 03/24/2015 1:57:24 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Rebelbase

Hovering at 10K can be.


289 posted on 03/24/2015 2:09:42 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: cherokee1

No, it got obliterated on impact, pile-driving into the rocky mountain face.

This is not shocking.

1956 Grand Canyon crash - although that involved 2 planes in midair first. THEN the debris field mostly (except what was damaged in the midair collison) in close proximity on the slopes. And basically, slower speeds.

http://www.lostflights.com/Grand-Canyon-Aviation/63056-Trans-World/4906723_95VsW3


290 posted on 03/24/2015 2:10:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: amorphous

Interesting and thanks for your thoughts.


291 posted on 03/24/2015 2:20:36 PM PDT by milford421 ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke))
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To: jimbo123

The Obama administration has positively ruled out terrorism. I wonder how anyone can do that without all the black box parameters and data in hand and a detailed study of the aircraft from the moment it started its path downward. I rule out nothing and, I trust the Spanish, French and German investigators will come up with the real truth, rather quickly, because all three countries have very large aviation industries and excellent regulatory agcenies for airline operations!!!

I believe the aircraft was controlled in descent, and the high speed it impacted the mountain, crated the wide range debris field. Just don’t know who was controlling the aircraft, the crew or hijackers. Or, possibly the crew was passed out, and the aircraft just descended and flew directly into the mountain!!! We shall know, shortly!!

May all who perished R.I.P. in our Lord’s heaven of paradise!!! Prayers for all of them and their families & friends!!!


292 posted on 03/24/2015 2:24:28 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I don’t understand how the “Obama administration” can so confidently rule out terrorism at this early stage of the investigation. Makes me think someone knows something and this is an attempt to cover it. Tinfoil hat, yes - but Obama and anyone associated with him are not to be trusted.


293 posted on 03/24/2015 2:36:12 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog ("Islam is Islam. There are no modifiers. It's a political movement masquerading as a religion.")
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To: amorphous
So then why wasn't any of the passengers able to use their cell phones to call love ones during the long (8 min) decent.

Lack of cell towers in the middle of nowhere maybe?

294 posted on 03/24/2015 2:42:21 PM PDT by Eaker (You are really amazing Eaker. - Swordmaker 02/14/15)
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To: fivecatsandadog
I don’t understand how the “Obama administration” can so confidently rule out terrorism at this early stage of the investigation. Makes me think someone knows something and this is an attempt to cover it. Tinfoil hat, yes - but Obama and anyone associated with him are not to be trusted.

There were 39 on board with Turkish passports. One, two or more could have caused a problem, maybe with a cohort on the ground in Barcelona participating in an inspection or servicing the plane. But even if it was a technical problem, why would the Obama folks come out immediately with "nothing to see here" if there was a chance they would have to walk it back if the black boxes show otherwise? It's just stupid.

295 posted on 03/24/2015 2:44:12 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 - If you have a 22-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good.)
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To: CedarDave
"why would the Obama folks come out immediately with "nothing to see here" if there was a chance they would have to walk it back if the black boxes show otherwise? It's just stupid."

Well, every thing they've done or said in the last 7 years has been a loaded statement just like this one. Remember: "If you like your health insurance, your can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Benghazi - it was all about a video. ISIS - give them jobs and they'll stop chopping off heads.

296 posted on 03/24/2015 2:54:10 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog ("Islam is Islam. There are no modifiers. It's a political movement masquerading as a religion.")
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

“I trust the Spanish, French and German investigators will come up with the real truth, rather quickly, because all three countries have very large aviation industries and excellent regulatory agcenies for airline operations!!!”

And guess who almost ALWAYS gets called in?

The US, because we are second to none and virtually no one has all the abilities our agencies have.

It is foolish to immediately “rule out” anything, BUT based on the circumstances that we know, nothing wrong with merely discounting it as unlikely.

Which I do. I do not think everything is Moslem, although I hate them and don’t put anything past them. Still, they have an MO and this is not it.


297 posted on 03/24/2015 2:55:09 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Eaker

Mountains? I lose the signal on my cell phone while driving through low foothills.


298 posted on 03/24/2015 2:56:55 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog ("Islam is Islam. There are no modifiers. It's a political movement masquerading as a religion.")
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

IF the odongo admin has “positively” ruled out terrorism and the odongo admin is a known pathological liar, then the only conclusion is “terrorism”.
IE” “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”...LMAO.......
I believe the very opposite of everything these liars say.


299 posted on 03/24/2015 2:57:49 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Gritty

Could have also been a murder-suicide in the cockpit by one of the pilots or a crew member.. I’m anxious to see the pilot’s names, especially.


300 posted on 03/24/2015 3:05:24 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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