Alps Plane Crash

In the alps skiing at the min. Earlier in the week I have been making some comments about how lucky we are to doing what we are doing when you think how much poverty there is. Only worry is the hangover and how good the piste and is.

This news is crazy. Anyone could be on that plane. Just a lottery where it took off and was going.

Rest in peace.
 
I am brutal. 2nd time and not great at turning right to left. Lots if nice people about giving me my skis back.

Avoiding black runs like the plague.
 
Beezerk said:
Doesn't look good, one of the pilots locked out of the cabin by the sounds of it!
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Not good if that's the case, There must a back up plan if one goes to the loo and comes back and cant get in, I know the security has been strengthened since 9/11 but to have only one lock is very strange,
 
Beezerk said:
Doesn't look good, one of the pilots locked out of the cabin by the sounds of it!
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I heard that this morning, makes it sound more deliberate now, or did the pilot have a heart attack as it took 8 mins of descent before the crash, or poison or, or......

After 911 these doors were made to resist outside force. After this new incident is there credence in establishing an override signal code that could be sent from air traffic control to unlock the door for just such a situation.

It's horrendous whatever they establish as the cause.
 
Very sad news and awful to hear that its not an accident.
 
Watching one of the why planes crash documentaries on discovery, they went through the whole diagnosis to fill an hour program, but in the end the conclusion on the programme was that the pilot had amounted a lot of debt, was depressed and committed suicide and well murder by purposely crashing the plane he was flying.

Not knowing the full circumstances of the German plane crash, but suicide by crashing your plane has been known to happen in the past.
 
CMAC said:
I heard that this morning, makes it sound more deliberate now, or did the pilot have a heart attack as it took 8 mins of descent before the crash, or poison or, or......

After 911 these doors were made to resist outside force. After this new incident is there credence in establishing an override signal code that could be sent from air traffic control to unlock the door for just such a situation.

It's horrendous whatever they establish as the cause.
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Normal practice is that when a pilot needs to leave the flight deck he/she is replaced by a flight attendant, in case anything does happen to the remaining pilot.
This certainly sounds like foul play. ASsuming there was just the one pilot on the FD if he had taken ill the plane would have just carried on at cruise altitude until it ran out of fuel. For it to descend like it did someone had to reset the flight computers manually. Absolutely awful, if you're going to off yourself, why kill so many innocent people:(
 
SaintHacker said:
Normal practice is that when a pilot needs to leave the flight deck he/she is replaced by a flight attendant, in case anything does happen to the remaining pilot.
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That happens on US flights, but not sure it is general practice elsewhere. Certainly not with Lufthansa.

I imagine new regulations will now be introduced. Unfortunately this is not the first time an airline has been deliberately crashed by a pilot.
 
I believe many (if not all) of us tread a pretty fine line between our sanity and madness and despair. And if something tips you over - and that may be something that has been completely hidden from others and that you have completely kept to yourself - possibly all of your life - you could just go...and norms of behaviour vanish
 
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