Plane crash: Germanwings A320 crashes in French Alps

I agree, the first thing I came across was a huge photograph of a poor man clearly distraught and crying. It's so intrusive. The last thing they must want is to be hounded and have cameras shoved in their faces.

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Sad to see yet more unnecessary deaths.

Really wish the international news media could restrain themselves a bit more though. Ascending like a pack of rabid vultures while families and friends attempt to grieve always makes me rather uneasy.

...and in attempting to point out 'idiocy', you've made yourself look like one as well. People say prayers because again, because they're offering their support in that manner along with their 'thoughts' and they feel that's one way to do it -- why should the altar that feeling because people like you get pissy for no reason? No one here is attempting to arrogant in any way with their regards to religion or trying to influence someone in that way. Not that difficult mate. There is literally no negative aspect behind the posts in this thread.

At least those guys are being considerate and / or thoughtful, unlike yourself who instead decided to call them out on it.

What an absolutely pathetic attempt to get one over on religion. Talk about creating an issue over nothing ffs

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RIP to all the lives lost. Thoughts and prayers for friends, families and everyone involved.

You can result to walking 800 miles if you wish.

We need to put God back into aviation, let the pilot lead a prayer, and God will bless the flight.

As far as I know, it's 150 passengers including 6 crew members and 2 babies. (67 Germans, 45 Spanish people).

It's a horrible ordeal and questions will have to answered as to why the "safest mean of transport" has left so many dead yet again.

There was distress signal as they plummeted for 8 minutes, so it's likely to be engine failure.

Thought about rapid decompression too, the descent took 8mins and oxygen tanks last 15 mins - so could have been an emergency decent - BUT a safe altitude to descend to is 10k, the plane went further below that ... Perhaps ruling any form of decompression out of the window.


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You seem to have entirely missed the point. Well done you.

I initially thought slow decompression - but the only other major example I can think of, Helios 522, deviated from course and ran out of fuel after fighter jets were scrambled to inspect the plane when it wasn't responding to ATC. This one crashed on its course, so it's highly unlikely it would have been under-fuelled.

What's confusing is that there was no 7700 squawk yet the pilots must have been aware of the descent rate as there was no real speed increase as the plane descended.

I know some discount the DM and obviously not sure how solid their line is, but if this is true then it could explain why no contact from the plane and a fairly controlled descent into a mountain...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012053/Pilot-doomed-Germanwings-jet-locked-cockpit-crash.html

I know some discount the DM and obviously not sure how solid their line is, but if this is true then it could explain why no contact from the plane and a fairly controlled descent into a mountain...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012053/Pilot-doomed-Germanwings-jet-locked-cockpit-crash.html

There is usually a way of gaining access through the door - via a code entered into a keypad.

This then triggers an alarm on the flight deck which allows the flight crew to "deadlock" the door if they fear something is amiss.

That's is true on Boeing aircraft and I don't see why airbus would not have a similar mechanism.

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