Posted on 03/25/2015 5:24:23 AM PDT by maggief
NEW evidence has emerged that the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in southern France yesterday dived for 18 minutes, and not eight as previously thought.
Frances Transport Minister Segolene Royal said this morning that the crew had stopped responding to radio messages at 10.30am, with the plane flying over the Mediterranean sea.
The aircraft crashed into the side of a mountain in the French Alps at 10.48am, suggesting that the plane had descended from 28,000ft to 2,000ft without signalling an emergency.
Ms Royal added that events in the cockpit in the 60 seconds between 10.30am and 10.31am were crucial and could shed light on what caused the disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at scotsman.com ...
I would hope too that the analog instrumentation is fed by separate pitots, which would seem to make sense.
Anyway aren't "average airline pilots" notoriously known to be bad investors? You've heard the jokes. And their picks of women (a.k.a. future ex's?) ;)
I think our opinions on this accident are probably close to the same, so really our disagreements are tangential. The crew was (likely) somehow incapacitated and therefore the airplane crashed. The rest is up for more debate and speculation, we need more facts.
From the story: 10.30am - when the pilots were apparently chatting away - and 10.31am when contact was lost.
Well, at least we know both crewmembers were in the cockpit when it happened (whatever it was). I wondered if there was only one pilot in the cockpit at the time (restroom break for the other one, etc).
Those windows are very thick and laminated -- if one pane cracks the window should stay structurally intact. Not that it's impossible, it's just down the list of likely possibilities.
One does not need to be a pilot to pick a bad future ex.
Trust me.
No, but it helps.
Not at all! You called Captain Sullenberger "an average pilot", and I defended him. You're playing games with semantics. The fun I was poking at your term "average pilots", posed as questions had to do with their stereotyped life choices, an obvious tongue-in-cheek reference that had nothing to do with aviation skills. One would think it's not a slight to your profession to praise the extraordinary accomplishments of another pilot, but your personal tone toward him indicates otherwise.
Chesley Sullenberger -- ex-Air Force fighter pilot, Red Flag mission commander, safety investigator, civilian instructor at US Airways, Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman and accident investigator. Two master's degrees, founded his own safety consulting firm Safety Reliability Methods, Inc. after retirement. Not to mention the "miracle on the Hudson". Accomplished, sought-after public speaker.
No, he is not, and probably never was "an average pilot". And by calling him that -- let's just say your ego is writing checks your body can't cash!
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Good point. That MH370 is an ongoing mystery, and most serious.
Yes, indeed. The airbus which crashed recently in Indonesia had just such a pattern.
And with the plane shot down over the Ukraine, we are still waiting for the unedited tape of the black box.
There is something going on.
I am former B 36 pilot USAF & retired air traffic controller. . The world is full of problems in aviation that are coming out.
Ah hah! So, you are the one who flew over our house on Lake Worth opposite the end of the runway at Carswell AFB and vibrated all of the china out of the kitchen cabinets.
It only took 65 years, but I've found you...
We did fly in from Roswell. I was there before they invented flying sausers..
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