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Passengers screamed as captain took axe to cockpit door
www.thetimes.co.uk ^
| 03-27-2015
| Staff
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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: airplane; crash; germanwings
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Where did he get an AXE?................
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:15:10 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:15:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: ken5050
Must have been a Emergency Jihadi Kit..............
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:15:55 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:16:23 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: Red Badger
If that is the truth, then the Captain is a true hero.
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:16:30 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Red Badger
Never leave a muslim alone in a cockpit...
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:17:02 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: left that other site
He just didn’t realize quite fast enough what was actually going on. Not faulting him - who would think that that’s what was happening?
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:17:26 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Red Badger
So, you lock the door to the cockpit to prevent it from being hijacked, and force every (non-Muslim) passenger to get a cavity search before getting on board... and then you leave axes lying around to chop the door down?
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:17:37 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
To: ken5050
FROM OTHER INDEPENDENT UK LINK:
Germanwings has confirmed that an axe was on board for safety reasons, as is routine on all Airbus A320 models. Investigators would not comment on whether it was used to gain entry to the cockpit.
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:18:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
From the article:
“Germanwings has confirmed that an axe was on board for safety reasons, as is routine on all Airbus A320 models.”
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:18:06 AM PDT
by
KansasGirl
("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
To: caligatrux
Germanwings has confirmed that an axe was on board for safety reasons, as is routine on all Airbus A320 models. Investigators would not comment on whether it was used to gain entry to the cockpit.
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:18:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Cowboy Bob
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:19:17 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: caligatrux
So, you lock the door to the cockpit to prevent it from being hijacked, and force every (non-Muslim) passenger to get a cavity search before getting on board... and then you leave axes lying around to chop the door down?Heck, I'll add to this: Then you let a Muslim drive?
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:19:18 AM PDT
by
Noamie
To: Red Badger
Wouldn’t it have been better for the cap to get a bunch of guys together to ram the door down?
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:19:31 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: left that other site
In the wake of this kind of problem, people will be wondering why airlines can’t arrange to have ground crews take remote command of aircraft whose crews are in trouble or “misbehaving.”
It’s implementation issues. A remote control would make hijacking possible too in principle. Pilots would not like it any more than they liked the idea of “black boxes” that they could not erase on successful landing (i.e. the chance for being second guessed).
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:20:00 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: MrB
It takes a few seconds to think the unthinkable.
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:20:24 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Noamie
Has it been determined if the copilot was such? Sounds like nobody is talking about it in Germany.
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:21:14 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Red Badger
Yes, obviously I realize there was an axe on board. I'm just saying it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to lock the door and then have a convenient axe to bust it down with. Seriously, for what other "safety" reason would you need an axe on an airplane?
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posted on
03/27/2015 8:21:16 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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