Posted on 04/01/2015 10:58:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
French police tell Paris Match and Bild to hand over what the two media claim is a genuine mobile phone video taken inside the Germanwings plane.
A mobile phone clip purportedly filming the final seconds inside the cabin of the doomed Germanwings airliner minutes before it crashed is genuine, two European media insist.
French authorities initially firmly denied the existence of the clip, which allegedly relays in a few seconds scenes of chaos and passengers screaming My God in several languages. But they are now calling on anyone in possession of such a film to hand it over to investigators.
French magazine Paris Match and German daily Bild said the authenticity of the video is unquestionable and that it had been retrieved from the wreckage of last Tuesdays crash by a source close to the inquiry.
The magazines journalists added they had seen the video. We have checked and rechecked its authenticity, a Paris Match spokesman told the Telegraph.
The phone had not survived the crash, but the memory card on which it was stored had, the two publications insisted.
Its provenance leaves no room for doubt, wrote Paris Match.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Why would anyone object to it?
That’s an amazing graphic. It’s so true, and yet you don’t expect to see it so accurately addressed. It’s an amazing graphic.
Just curious..did parts of your life that you didn’t even think you remembered in your day to day normal living basis start to flash before you as you thought you were going to die?
Anyone who viewed the video on a device other than the original probably put it on a server-synched device. A PC for example, as a file. Backed up automatically. Shared with a few close friends in the lab. Sent to a personal email account. Etc.
It’s like Lois Lerner’s emails or Hillary’s server. The data is out there. It is highly unlikely that they have hermetically sealed off all possibilities of digital copies.
It’s either “oh man I’m gonna get a LOT of hits on YouTube” OR they simply wanted to help investigators see what really happened on that flight. A last good deed by one passenger.. What else COULD they do in that situation?
Interesting idea, but wouldn't you be ripped apart trying to exit an airplane flying at 550 mph assuming you didn't slam into the tail or some other part of it?
That’s assuming an awful lot. Even if it did go on a server, a properly built LAN wouldn’t allow access to the outside.
I have taken hundreds of GBs of photos and videos onto flash cards. I move them to my computer at home and to the NAS on my local home network, but that doesn’t mean they are out there in the cloud.
If you survived you'd die a slow death in the Alps.
While the terminal speed of a falling human is slower, that passenger would still leave the plane at 550 mph! Granted, they would slow relatively quickly (somewhere between the plane speed and terminal), but probably not before being flung into a mountain at a very high speed.
At times like that, it's good to know that your seat cushion can be used as a floatation device.
Who knows - I could land on a patch of thick snowpack (without not breaking my neck/spine) and then I would be howling like a wolf for about 15 minutes and be rescued by a St. Bernard with Brandy in a little keg under his chin.
I think about these things.
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