Posted on 03/24/2015 3:55:35 AM PDT by Drago
"An Airbus A320 has crashed in the southern French Alps, a security source has said." & "A Germanwings A320 has crashed in the southern French Alps, according to security sources."
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Though the size of the debris field might indicate a mid-air explosion, I wonder if a similar effect would be observed if the plane flew straight into the hard rock face of a mountain at a high rate of speed. Compare with the crash of United 93 on 9/11 - that crash was into soft earth at speed with few large pieces but the debris field was relatively small.
Wouldn’t there be a crater or a blacked-out area from the explosion?
148 adults and two little babies...
It would be the same as an outside source accessing a gaming joystick which is hardwired to the game controller.
Wireless fly by wire is still in the development phase and not incorporated on this jet.
So as I understand it an outside source could not “take over” the jet.
However, I have been wrong before too.
If it walks like a Muslim, squawks like a Muslim it’s a Muslim...
I’m not aware that any fly-by-wireless system has yet been approved. Personally, I have some concerns about security. So far, the certification authorities agree.
Would the low altitude affect the size of the debris field?
If into a rock face, evidence of impact and fire (scorching) but no crater.
Not being a pilot, I have to ask if that descent speed could have been maintained through gravity alone if there was an engine flameout at altitude?
Another crash, compliments of Triple A airlines (Allah Akbar Airlines).
Maybe if a mid-air explosion occurred at a low altitude just above the observed debris field. But you would likely have larger pieces of the aircraft.
In the AF447 crash, the pitot tubes for the air-speed incidator iced over and read 0. That’s why the computer kicked offline. It was a storm and they couldn’t the horizon either.
That crash was due to the co-pilot’s inexperience with flying the Airbus A300 without the computer. He was confused by the ‘Pull up’ audible warning going silent whenever the computer faulted at an extreme AOT (the computer shut up because it decided the sensor inputs were crazy). So he kept pulling up the joystick up and up thinking the stall ended whenever the audible warning stopped. Whenever he eased the stick forward the computer reawakened and starting bitching again about a stall. Rinse and repeat. And so he belly-flopped right into the ocean.
Meanwhile the captain (who was sleeping) jumped into the right (co-pilot) seat and yelled WTF to the co-pilot as he pushed the joystick forward to stop the stall, but the captain’s joystick on the left overrode him, and he didn’t realize it. (Boeing uses wheels that are mechanically linked, so pushing one steering wheel forward always pushes the other.) The official determination in the AF crash was pilot error due to failure to understand how the fly-by-wire A300 behaved whenever the computer kicked offline and went into alternate (mostly manual) flight mode.
The 2008 crash was similarly due to lack of experience in flying without the computer (and likely the Air Indonesia crash too). In each event, the pilot wildly wrenched the joystick to try to keep the plane aloft. The flight recorder showed the plane going up and down with extreme maneuvers like a roller coaster.
However, that is not what we see in the radar altitude chart for this crash. The plane gradually descended over 18 minutes in a straight-line path right into the side of a mountain.
A mid-air explosion would show significant deceleration and rapid descent. We don’t see that here. That, plus the lack of communication with the flight crew, makes it more likely that the flight crew was somehow physically incapacitated. The autopilot tripped off, and then the plane slowly descended into the mountain.
A 9/11 style hijacking would show changes in direction and there’s no evidence of that either.
There was no distress signal (latest report), which is odd.
Supposedly pilot was a German . . .
Time to ‘vet’ the pilot???
Wasn’t there an Egyptian suicide pilot who flew plane in to
the Atlantic?
Did he have a ‘flight simulator at home’?
Well not all "Germans" are Aryan these days.
Good points. Based on the scene video, this was no midair incident, and it went right into the side of the mountain as if the pilots simply fell asleep and it kept descending until drove it right in.
I just turned your picture into an 11”x17” target to print.
Thanks,
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