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
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Jihadophrenia.
He’s German.
Pilot credentials can be stolen;see the link. If no one knew this copilot by sight perhaps he was killed and his credentials used by a flight trained terrorist. One of the passengers worked for an intelligence company that used satellite maps. Just thinking. About Lockerbie.
I remember when I finished reading Debt of Honor. I kinda stopped and thought "did he really just kill off the entire congress?" Then I went back to re-read the last few pages. There was something deeply satisfying about it.
Kinda like when Independence Day was first in theaters. When the White House was blown up, people in the theater cheered.
Airplanes kill people...
We need airplane control.....
Was Andreas Lubitz homosexual?
It was an apparent suicide.
I would characterize it more as a mass-murder-suicide.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why the Egypt Air 900 pilot was allowed to fly after being reprimanded and suspended. That makes absolutely NO sense.
Suspend, hand in credentials, send the dude home and keep him away from anything with wings and passengers.
Wow, I didn’t realize the other crew had timed out by a minute. In this case, thank you, FAA regs!
Paranoid schizophrenia (delusional behavior) or bi-polar disorder (suicidal behavior) was my guess as well, assuming Andreas Lubitz is his real name and he has no ties to Islamism or to some other radical cult or political party.
There was also another older movie, cannot recall it's name, about Air force One being hijacked for the same purpose.
There is only one problem with the concept of airliners being used as a missiles. Their engines compress air. Due to air density close to the ground, when they fly at very low altitude they can not fly faster than 250 knots. The only way to gain high speed at low altitude is to nosedive them from cruising speed at high altitude, but they would probably disintegrate mid-air. So airliners as missiles is is mostly Tom Clancy/F-X territory.
One of the pilots wrote a book called Hijacked.
I heard him on the radio describing the event.
The tapes of the communication to ATC are gripping.
It took about a half hour to get back to Memphis. The left seat pilot had been hit in the head with a claw hammer. He could barely see much less fly. The other pilot wrestled trying to subdue the perp. Pilot in command jerked the plane all over the sky to keep the perp from gaining advantage.
Highly recommended read.
Not true. United 175 was doing 469 knots when it hit WTC 2, about 87 knots faster than AA 11 hit WTC 1. That's according to NIST (see here (18mb PDF), page 38). Flight 175 made a rapid descent after it was hijacked (about 5000 feet/min — faster than Germanwings), but there was no "nosedive". It was in more or less level flight when it hit.
He got 67 years, but only served 20. Interesting story.
United 175 was Boeing 767-200.
According to published data top speed of B767-200 is Mach 0.86 (493 knots, 567 mph, 913 km/h at 35,000 ft cruise altitude.Typical Cruise Speed at 35,000 feet is Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 851 kph)
No doubt Boeing 76-200 can fly 469 knots at 35,000 ft, but can it fly at 469 knots at 1,000ft (approx. height of WTC2 impact)? That is question for Pratt & Whitney. Many pilots say it can not.
No, but he had a Muslim girlfriend
‘had a Muslim girlfriend. unclear if she was still dating Lubitz at the time of the crash’
http://stthomasaquinasversusnasa.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/muslim-convert-co-pilot-andreas-gunter.html
The question is not can? but did?
I don't know how NIST arrived at their number, but there were videos of its final approach, so it should have been a simple question of, how much time was this airplane taking to get out of its own way? Given we know the airplane's exact length, it shouldn't be much of a challenge for the likes of NIST to derive a reliable estimate of its velocity, Pratt and Whitney and pilots' folklore notwithstanding.
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