Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
26-03-2015, 13:39
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
.. and if he'd wanted to kill more, he could have flown it into a populated area.
If it's true that the pilot asked to go to the toilet, it seems almost like an opportunist act, although I guess it wouldn't be uncommon for pilots to need a break even on fairly short flights so anyone intent of doing this sort of thing wouldn't need to wait too long before the chance arose.
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26-03-2015, 13:48
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
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.. and if he'd wanted to kill more, he could have flown it into a populated area.
If it's true that the pilot asked to go to the toilet, it seems almost like an opportunist act, although I guess it wouldn't be uncommon for pilots to need a break even on fairly short flights so anyone intent of doing this sort of thing wouldn't need to wait too long before the chance arose.
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I was reading that usually a flight attendant is meant to replace the pilot so that there is always two people in the cockpit but not sure if that's true and, even if it is, I imagine they occasionally forgo such procedures if they're inconvenient.
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26-03-2015, 13:53
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
You'd have thought that would be reasonable. According to one 'expert' on the BBC, apparently there are means by which to open a cockpit door if, for example, the pilots are incapacitated for some reason but, this can be prevented by someone on the flight deck which seems to be what happened here.
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26-03-2015, 13:57
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
Common procedure on modern aircraft is that the cabin door is locked when shut, but can be opened via a keypad. This allows the crew to come and go as required without needing to be let in all the time. But post 9/11 security changes have resulted in a manual lock being fitted on the inside of the door, so if there is a hijack in progress in the cabin, the door can be locked in such a way that none of the crew outside can be coerced into opening it.
Whether that's a good idea depends on which you think is more likely: a terrorist trying to force cabin crew to give them access to the cockpit, or one of the pilots going suicidal and locking everyone else out.
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26-03-2015, 14:21
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
We will probably find out about the co-pilots life situation in the coming days. Sadly it was the same situation on flight MH370.
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26-03-2015, 22:35
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
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I just can't process how horrible that is. That this was intentional and 'not a terrorist' attack. Some guy just decided to kill all those people?
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He's a murderous coward, wanted to take his own life and decided to take 140 people with him.
He's a coward because flying a plane into the side of a mountain at 570 mph to die instantly is a real cowards way out.
He didn't even have the guts to tie a noose around his neck, stick a blade in his wrist or throw himself off a bridge or in front of a train. Because they would need at least some conviction and pain. No, he sat in a comfy chair and obliterated himself instantly.
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27-03-2015, 16:35
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
Crazed pilot should not even have been at work: Families' fury at revelation killer nicknamed 'Tomato Andy' hid secret mental illness and had pile of torn-up sick notes - including one for fatal Tuesday
seems he wasn't stable for some time
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27-03-2015, 16:46
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
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Crazed pilot should not even have been at work: Families' fury at revelation killer nicknamed 'Tomato Andy' hid secret mental illness and had pile of torn-up sick notes - including one for fatal Tuesday
seems he wasn't stable for some time
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There are also some news stories that he was a recent muslim convert, but none of these stories are from reliable sources.
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27-03-2015, 16:49
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
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There are also some news stories that he was a recent muslim convert, but none of these stories are from reliable sources.
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To be honest if that was the case he would have been screaming ally snackbar or what ever it is they shout before killing for there god.
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27-03-2015, 17:36
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
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To be honest if that was the case he would have been screaming ally snackbar or what ever it is they shout before killing for there god.
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As I said unconfirmed because it has only been reported in unreliable news sources. Also unconfirmed was a report of a page being shut down by Facebook that had a few likes claiming to be from Islamic extremists taking the credit, which was also most likely a hoax.
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27-03-2015, 22:32
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
I read this comment.
"Who gives a crap about the scumbag co-pilot. TELL me the name of the hero pilot who tried until his dying breath to get back into the cockpit"
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27-03-2015, 22:37
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
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I read this comment.
"Who gives a crap about the scumbag co-pilot. TELL me the name of the hero pilot who tried until his dying breath to get back into the cockpit"
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29-03-2015, 16:09
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Re: Plane crashes in French Alps kills 150 people
An article on sky news about the captian trying to get into the flight deck and yet I cannot see his name.
http://news.sky.com/story/1454876/cr...-the-damn-door
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