Posted on 03/26/2015 3:19:18 AM PDT by nikos1121
What we are hearing this morning is that one of the pilots left the cockpit and was unable to reopen the cockpit door. The voice recorder records the pilot outside the door at first tapping then banging on the door.
The plane apparently begins it's decent FOR 18 MINUTES, so I assume during this horrific time, the passengers and other crew are witnessing this. Perhaps passengers are also recording this. We shall see.
The door locks are activated or unactivated in the cockpit. The pilot can have the door unlocked, normal (which means access can be obtained by a passcode outside the door) or lock position whereby the passcode access is over ridden and the door cannot be opened for 20 minutes.
At this point there is no other explanation. The plane was at cruising altitude then it descends. This must have been deliberate because the plane otherwise was on auto pilot.
Does anyone know with certainty the names of the co-pilot and pilot?
Mohammed?
All the articles say the pilots names have not been released.
Isn’t it strange that they haven’t?
i found only this on the pilots:
Both pilots were trained at the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen.
The captain had over 6,000 flight hours’ experience. He joined Germanwings in May 2014. Previously he was a pilot with Lufthansa and Condor, a Lufthansa partner airline.
The first officer joined Germanwings in September 2013. He had about 630 flight hours. They were unable to confirm whether this was his first job as a professional pilot, or any previous experience.
David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of Flightglobal, said that normally a locked cockpit door could be opened with a code.
“But inside there is a simple switch on the control panel the pilot would turn to lock the door,” he said.
He cited the crash of a Mozambican Airlines flight in Namibia in 2013 in which the pilot is believed to have locked himself in the cockpit and put the plane into a nose dive.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32062278
Name? Name, yet, of pilot?
lemonde says it was the pilot in the cockpit, the copilot was locked out
the agencies say it is up to germanwings to release the names of the pilots.
Germanwings sent a twitter message less than an hour ago saying they will not release their names.
“Descent”. To spell descent “decent” is indecent.
CC
And what about our daring and oh-so-professional FREE PRESS?
Do you think they can knock off Cruz-bashing long enough to, oh, I don't know, do some INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM???
Or maybe they just don't want to know.
Authorities need to check the pilots personal computers ASAP
No last name given.
apologies posted this on another thread, according to the telegraph and bild
The pilots named as Patrick S and Andreas L
privacy laws in germany stop the release of the last name.
Shouldn't be too hard to figure out their last names from here.
This report kind of makes the administration’s claim of “no evidence of Terrorism” in the dumper. I know that officials don’t want to sow panic, but really?
That looks like a very well-made switch.
We don’t know who was in the cockpit for sure. Two Iranians on board. Could they have rushed the door and entered?
The whole thing sounds odd, because if the captain was in the cockpit, then it’s suicide?
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