[Yo-Yo]

Either sudden loss of pressurization, causing crew blackout, or autopilot failure causing slow descent that was unnoticed by crew during cruise phase of flight.

[maggief]

BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking

#Germanwings CEO gives details of nationalities of some of the victims from flight #4U9525 http://bbc.in/1N7AhgA

[txrefugee]

Now this does sound like a terror attack.

[gaijin]

Crew somehow INCAPACITATED.

[Celtic Conservative]

Oh crap, you mean the media screwed up again? That almost never happens!

/sarc>

CC

[bert]

—— dived——

or glided

[McGruff]

the crew had stopped responding to radio messages at 10.30am

So there was communications with the pilots. Next question, what were the last communications?

[PROCON]

I can’t imagine the horror and sheer terror the passengers must have been feeling.

[Tucker39]

What are the NAMES of the cockpit crew? I’m suspicious of foul play. Once the crew is cleared we can take a closer look at the two Middle Eastern passengers, or whatever they were, originally reported as Turks.

[Reno89519]

I’m curious if and when people my start noticing the string of Airbus crashes that are remarkably similar. Not just the Airbus 320, others have similar fall or dive without any contact endings. Too many.

[Clay Moore]

Reports were the plane just received an A-check the prior day.

What procedures are involved in an A-check?

[Gamecock]

1. Massive systems failure.
2. Decompression with failure of pilots O2. (A few years ago there was a plane where the pilot’s window blew out and he was partially sucked out. They had to hold on to him to keep him from going all the way out. Somehow he lived.)
3. Unemployed Muslum yoots.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I for one, never saw a plane turned into chaff.

[armydawg505]

At 10:30 the plane was flying normally over the Mediterranean and at 10:48 it crashed into a mountain side? Wait, we are dealing with the French here.

[Reno89519]

My question, are Airbus unsafe? While the percentage is obviously low, they do seem to have similar recurring problems and deadly crashes.

[Oldhunk]

The first thing I said to my wife when the crash was reported was that if this is terrorism, authorities will do everything possible to hide the fact.

This morning we learn that the black box is “damaged”. Hmmmm.

[zipper]

18 minutes, not 10, So somebody forged the FlightRadar24 plots?

I don’t think so.

[Lady Heron]

One article yesterday said the wreckage was spread out over kilometers. Is this still the case?

That usually means broke up in air.

[Gritty]

Well, one thing we know isn't the cause of this crash is "terrorism". The US government ruled that out before the helicopters were on the scene.

[RikaStrom]

ping