Posted on 03/25/2015 9:29:47 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
The New York Times is reporting that a pilot was locked out of the cockpit of the Germanwings A320 plane which crashed Tuesday.
Evidence from a cockpit voice recorder reportedly reveals that one of the pilots left the cockpit and was unable to return...
More at Fox News http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/03/25/nyt-pilot-locked-out-cockpit-ahead-french-alps-crash
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
Nothing revealed so far. Only flight experience as noted in post #55. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung realtes the same facts but notes that the co-pilot was trained at the Lufthansa flight school in Bremen. Both pilots were male.
That makes no sense. If I'm a muzzy...once my buddy is gone to the bathroom (or whatever he was doing) I dive that sucker straight down and we're done...especially when I know he's trying to get back in.
That aspect of the terrorism angle doesn't make sense to me...which leads me to believe there is another explanation.
Could be the strikes....
Gonna be very interesting to see what this brings out.
Airbus flight control software prevents a full nosedive, the plane was descenting as fast as the software would allow.
Well, I’d say bully on the wise individual that came up with that policy. However, that too could be overcome. The only solution remaining is to send ALL muzzies back to the hell hole they came from, and that won’t be any more possible than sending other forms of illegals back to the country of origin. Oh...Remaining comments self censored.
The road to Hell is paved with new inventions.
Thanks. A post at Le Figaro via google translate:
Lufthansa, Germanwings parent company, did not confirm reports that one of the two pilots was found alone at the controls, the other remains locked out of the cockpit. The captain had more than 10 years of experience and more than 6,000 hours on Airbus aircraft, Germanwings indicated on Tuesday.
David Philippot, Berlin
Oddly? If I was a betting man, NOT.
Why did the pilot leave the cockpit? Don’t they have a bathroom in there?
It should never matter... but somehow, it always seems to matter.
As has been said, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case none necessary.
The long battle by the two pilots at saving their hides and those potentially in danger on the ground is worth “hero” status. We should know their names, and their story over the perp’s.
‘________severe medical emergency.’
Back in the 1990’s, flying from Tampa to Los Angeles on Southwest, an announcement came that we were making a medical emergency landing in Georgia. I was seated near the rear, and when the cabin attendant was in my area, I asked him to lean over. I said if the medical emergency person was alone, I would volunteer to sit with them. Cabin attendant did a kind of slow stare at me and walked off.
He came back minutes later, leaned over to me and said - (ready??!):
‘the emergency is the Captain!’ The co-captain was then at the controls, and did he ever book it to an airport!
When we got to L.A., I asked personnel in the airport if they knew about the captain of my plane, and I was told he was passing a kidney stone! Owwwwwww!
If one flies often enough, there must be similar incidents.
My guess is that at least one pilot is muslim. This is the same reason the criminal liberal news media doesn’t report the race of a suspect.
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“. This would make his family eligible for a $2.5 million life insurance policy paid by Federal Express”
I suppose this means his insurance was canceled.
***rim shot***
(Crickets)
No, they don’t. The cockpit is quite small. It is not unusual for a pilot to leave the cockpit to use the restroom. FAA regs require another crew member to be in the cockpit, if one of the pilots leaves for any reason. I don’t know if the regs for foreign carriers are the same.
What seems to be clear is that the door mode was intentionally changed to lock the other pilot out, with the keypad access deliberately disabled.
If not “terrorism”, then likely a murder/suicide.
Get rid of the fourth seat or something, but it would seem logical to somehow refit head facilities inside the cockpit.
Besides jihad - There is one illness that can strike in young people, seemingly without warning - schizophrenia. He was near the average age of onset.
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