Plane, 150 on board crashes in southern France

Another tragedy, all lost it seems.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/german-passenger-jet-crashes-french-alps-150324104354907.html

Not sure if any Brits were on board. Anyone have friends, relatives skiing in the Alps?

http://i.imgur.com/uLuftbg.jpg

"Cancelled" is a bit inaccurate...

Another tragedy, all lost it seems.

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/german-passenger-jet-crashes-french-alps-150324104354907.html

 

 

Not sure if any Brits were on board. Anyone have friends, relatives skiing in the Alps?

It's awful news.

Another tragedy, all lost it seems.

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/german-passenger-jet-crashes-french-alps-150324104354907.html

 

 

Not sure if any Brits were on board. Anyone have friends, relatives skiing in the Alps?

Dont really see the relevance of the last bit, the plane was going from Spain to Germany and crashed in a relatively remote part of the Alps which isnt a skiing resort.

A320 again. They are having bad luck with those.

A320 again. They are having bad luck with those.

It is one of the most common commercial airlines out there, so it is likely to feature more.

Here's the flight as it was tracked by flightradar....It seems it lost altitude rather quickly and the last signal received was at 6,800 feet.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/4u9525/#5d42675

The German airliner that crashed in the French Alps appears to have been brought down deliberately.

The investigators have reported that the chief pitot had been locked out of the cockpit by his co-pilot and was desperately try to smash down the cockpit door when the plane crashed.

(Reuters) - One of the pilots on the German Airbus plane that crashed in the French Alps, killing everyone onboard, left the cockpit and was unable to return before the plane went down, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing evidence from a cockpit voice recorder.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” an unnamed investigator told the Times. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”

“You can hear he is trying to smash the door down,” the investigator added.

(Reporting by Peter Cooney in Washington; Editing by Eric Beech)

The German airliner that crashed in the French Alps appears to have been brought down deliberately.

The investigators have reported that the chief pitot had been locked out of the cockpit by his co-pilot and was desperately try to smash down the cockpit door when the plane crashed.

 

(Reuters) - One of the pilots on the German Airbus plane that crashed in the French Alps, killing everyone onboard, left the cockpit and was unable to return before the plane went down, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing evidence from a cockpit voice recorder.

 

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” an unnamed investigator told the Times. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”

 

“You can hear he is trying to smash the door down,” the investigator added.

 

(Reporting by Peter Cooney in Washington; Editing by Eric Beech)

It doesn't necessarily mean the pilot brought the plane down deliberately. The airliner cockpit are locked from the inside and fortified, so the pilot could have had a heart attack/stroke/seizure and been unable to let his colleague back into the cockpit.

It doesn't necessarily mean the pilot brought the plane down deliberately. The airliner cockpit are locked from the inside and fortified, so the pilot could have had a heart attack/stroke/seizure and been unable to let his colleague back into the cockpit.

Heart attacks/strokes/seizures are pretty common occurances. I do believe the CAA have rules to cover that. It would be pretty foolhardy to introduce a rule that resulted in the loss of a plane and the death of everyone on board every time a pilot had a problem of that nature.

Heart attacks/strokes/seizures are pretty common occurances. I do believe the CAA have rules to cover that.

What rules ...? How can you legislate against a pilot having a heart attack? How common are they amongst flight crew?

When I was on a plane a few weeks ago (OK, it was a Boeing 747) i was sat on the very first row just behind the cockpit door and there was a little keypad on it which one presumes has a combination to open the door in case of an emergency?

However throughout the flight, if anyone wanted to get into the cockpit they had to show their face to the camera and they were let in.