Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Terror in the Alps?
GatesofVienna: Terror in the Alps
Given the multiple terror threats issued recently by Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, whenever a major jetliner crashes one immediately suspects that jihad may be involved. And, given the Western political propensity to deny and cover up any planned Islamic terror attack, one suspects that the evidence of jihad will emerge slowly, if ever.
The A320 is designed to cruise at 37,000 feet for optimum fuel usage. The fact that it began a controlled descent at full speed without making radio contact with air traffic controllers is peculiar, to say the least.
A320 pilots association is saying crash was most likely caused by, quote, ‘pilot incapacitation’!
There were at least two Turks on the passenger list.
French air traffic controllers have reported that the aircraft did not initiate the Mayday call; they (ATC) did because they had lost touch with it (quote). No doubt they were watching its speed/altitude graph, calculating its “steep, controlled” rate of descent and failure to turn away towards the nearest airfield...
ALSO THIS:
Was The Germanwing Airbus Shot Down?
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The silence of pilots, crew and passengers during such a steady but sudden decent is unnerving. MH370, although a different model of plane, also went radio silent with a full passenger manifest.
pasted comment which is worth repeating from the linked article:
"You are never going to find out whether this is terror. Flying is too important to everyone. People will freak out. Leaders will go to any extreme to prevent this economic sector from collapsing ( which it would if a few of these were proved jihad.) The decision on the coverup story line, I bet, was made many years ago. It’ll be like the Manhattan Project secret–kept.
So it will be something like CO poisoning involving the entire crew or anoxia or cabin decompression or “who had the fish?”
hence the consistent, persistent and immediate declaration made by authorities around the Western hemisphere, every suspected terror event, although facts are yet to be determined, authorities are always certain each event is "...not related to terror".
The odd thing is, if flying is really so important to us, and it is, then you'd think we would do something about the problem.
Israel does something about the problem.
We don't.
IsraelMatzav: Is GermanWings hiding something?
with input from MFS - The Other News
Searchers find empty second 'black box' from doomed German jetliner
Empty?
Guardian: Voices heard on recorder from cockpit of Germanwings plane crash
The Airbus A320 that ploughed into an Alpine mountain flew “right to the end”, the investigators said, and did not explode mid-flight. It also appeared not to have suffered a sudden drop in pressure.
“We have an audio file we can use,” Rémi Jouty, a BEA spokesperson said.
The task of the investigators in the first instance is “a job … of understanding the sounds, the alarms, the voices, to attribute the voices to different people,” he added.
“The crash zone is two hectares, which is big but not massive. We are combing the site and we will find the flight data recorder, which is built to resist a severe crash. I am confident we will find out what happened.”
Asked about the aircraft’s apparently controlled descent before it crashed, he added: “The path is compatible with the plane being controlled by pilots, except it’s hard to imagine that a pilot would send an aircraft into a mountain, and it’s compatible with an autopilot.”
Via AP:
Two Iranian journalists died in the Germanwings plane crash.
They were identified as Milad Hojatoleslami, who worked for semi-official Tasnim news agency and Hossein Javadi, a journalist at the Vatan-e-Emrouz daily.
Also, "a woman who had got married in the town on Saturday and was moving to Duesseldorf with her Moroccan husband, also a crash victim.
In a statement on its website, La Llagosta town hall named the woman as Asmae Ouahhoud el Allaoui, 23. The husband's name wasn't made available."
NYT...Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
just curious...
Quote:
From the NY Times
A senior military official involved in the investigation described “very smooth, very cool” conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf. Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter.
“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” the investigator said. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”
He said, “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”
While the audio seemed to give some insight into the circumstances leading up to the Germanwings crash, it also left many questions unanswered.
"We don’t know yet the reason why one of the guys went out,” said the official, who requested anonymity because the investigation is continuing. "But what is sure is that at the very end of the flight, the other pilot is alone and does not open the door."
Why would a 'senior military official' be involved in the investigation?. link
ITV: Airbus pilot 'heard trying to smash cockpit door open' - ITV News
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