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German Lufthansa Airbus crash
MBK
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Creepy.
So do you get the impression it disintegrated in the air? Or when it hit the French mountainside?
So do you get the impression it disintegrated in the air? Or when it hit the French mountainside?
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Prayers for all involved asked from here..
With an 8 minute powered glide into the mountain, it's certainly a mystery. I would be inclined to think pressurization or loss of, but it seems with an 8 person flightcrew, someone would have recognized the symptoms in time to get to the flight station.
If it was a cabin pressure issue typically wouldn't the plane have continued on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel?
Terrible thing, all those people. Just terrible.
quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
With an 8 minute powered glide into the mountain, it's certainly a mystery. I would be inclined to think pressurization or loss of, but it seems with an 8 person flightcrew, someone would have recognized the symptoms in time to get to the flight station.
If it was a cabin pressure issue typically wouldn't the plane have continued on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel?
If autopilot had been set. CBS said they reached their flight altitude for exactly one minute and then began the downward path.
No one used a cellphone or aircraft radios, so the mystery deepens.
The shattered windscreen theory has some merit. If one shattered, there would be both an immediate loss of cockpit pressure, AND a 400-mph maelstrom of wind in the crew's faces. Probably no way for them to put on a mask, see, or communicate.
The debris field consisting of only tiny pieces indicates (to me) either an inflight complete breakup, or an initial impact at extreme speed.
Either is possible. If a windscreen did shatter, the inrush of air could have first blown out the crew compartment door, then burst the cabin like a balloon when airspeed got high enough in the rapid descent. OR, the plane could have hit a ridgeline right at the crest, causing instant and violent breakup that scattered debris over a wide area.
Lord help the families.
I would not be surprised or upset if all airlines immediately terminated any Muslim pilots.
I cannot grasp why a pilot would have left the cockpit before reaching altitude and activating the auto-pilot.
Don't they still carry fire axes onboard large aircraft?
Don't they still carry fire axes onboard large aircraft?
I'll ask some of my neighbors that are senior Delta Captains, but I think the axes are all locked up in the cockpit....
There already are some instances wherein a Muslim flight pilot, copilot or crew member has done it?
I seem to recall seeing a documentary about it on a foreign carrier.
Egyptair 990
The Malaysia 370 lost plane.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?_r=0
quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
Don't they still carry fire axes onboard large aircraft?
I'll ask some of my neighbors that are senior Delta Captains, but I think the axes are all locked up in the cockpit....
I contacted some old flyin' buddies. One is an instructer pilot at United and one is a stew at Southwest. They both told me the fire axes are in the cockpit only.
It appears someone is going to have to come up with a new procedure to enter the cockpit.
Another aviation rule written in blood. [xx(]