Not very secret.
(Hat tip to Grampa Dave)
Posted on 03/27/2015 8:14:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
As they plunged towards their deaths, one of the last things seen by passengers and cabin crew near the front of the Germanwings Airbus A320 was their captain, Patrick Sonderheimer, desperately trying to smash down the door of the cockpit.
For several minutes on Tuesday morning the airliner had been inexplicably descending from cruising altitude towards the Alps with its engines idle.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.co.uk ...
Are considering the impulse of Force? Those 50 people will not impart nearly the energy of a solid battering ram.
The people will have to be spaced a little as they run down the isle. They will not, at the same time, transfer their kinetic energy to the door.
“Never leave a muslim alone in a cockpit...”.
Better still, Never leave a muslim on an airplane OF ANY KIND!
My thoughts exactly. He went down fighting! Hoo ya Capt.
It is being reported on some Israeli blog sites now:
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/
It looks very likely that this guy was a Muslim.
imagine going to the head and while your in there your plane starts descending......Cant beigin to imagine the fear and anxiety.
Thank god he was probably so consumed with the door he wasn’t aware of how soon he was to disintegrate unlike the poor souls in the cabin watching the mountains come up at them...Geshhhh
Of course he was and a sick one..I cant wait to see what his doctor has to say......If he claims Dr patient prove he needs to be waterboarded
Graingers maybe
8^).................
You need a shaped C4 charge to open that door. The horror of parents with children watching this is unbearable to even think about no less experience. May God have mercy on their souls.
With competent authentication, nobody could hack the system. But competent authentication is not trivial.
I’d sooner trust somebody on the ground to be a good guy, because at worst, police can still burst in on them, something impossible for this copilot turned hijacker.
I’m sure He will................
I hope if the axe is not kept in the cockpit, the location is not made public, regardless of locking means.
Well, if it wasn’t common knowledge, it is now, regardless.................
I want to know what anti-depressents, “health supplements”, sleeping pills and other medication that peckerhead was on.
Not very secret.
(Hat tip to Grampa Dave)
The German police found a prescription he tore up and a doctor’s excuse to miss work for a while including that day.............he was ‘off his meds’.................... He may have viewed this as being reported to the authorities and would end his career as a pilot, that he dearly loved to do. So he thought, “I’ll show them!’....................
That is a website made by his “fans” not by him, as I understand it.
A320 Cockpit Door Panel
Cockpit Door Panel | Cockpit Door Switch
Cockpit Door Switch
UNLOCK
Unlocks door when raised above the detent and held in this position. Door must be pushed to open. UNLOCK is an override and reset selection of any previous action.
NORM
When NORM is selected, it allows the door to be locked when closed. It also allows the door to be opened after an emergency access code entry and 30 second delay in case of pilot incapacitation.
LOCK
Momentarily placing the cockpit door switch to LOCK illuminates the red cockpit access panel light, rejects keypad entry request, inhibits aural alerts, and prevents further access code entry for 20 minutes. The cockpit door switch returns to NORM when released, but remains in locked mode for 20 minutes or until UNLOCK is selected.
There is no cockpit indication when LOCK is selected; therefore, if the door is closed and the cockpit is unattended during a locked period, the door cannot be opened until the timer expires or power is removed from the airplane.
pprune.org
261 posted on 03/25/2015 6:51:16 PM PDT by Praxeologue ( ‘)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3272136/posts?q=1&;page=251
What actually seems more credible is that he lost his girlfriend, he was about to lose his job, he was on meds but quit taking them, he changed the route via the flight computer, he dropped altitude as quickly as flight control computers would allow, he dropped the engines to idle and rode it into the ground.
Sorry about that last paragraph. I didn’t conclude my line of thought.
I.E. He committed suicide.
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