Lufthansa Germanwings airplane crash, scary and sad

[smokey the elder]

This was such a shame.

The pilot probably needed a bio break. How was he to know the copilot would lock him out?

[Lady's Human]

My sole question as details emerge is simple:

What was someone with a history of depression doing in command of an aircraft to begin with?

[cassiesmom]

I thought there was a rule requiring more than one person in the cockpit at all times.

[Lady's Human]

Not that I'm aware of, otherwise A 320s and the RJs (regional jets) would have been designed with cockpit spaces for three flight crew members. On any flight more than 1/2 hour or so there's a good chance someone's going to have to use the bathroom.

[RICHARD]

WAAAAAY before we, us regular folks, begin to think about the 'whys' of the accident?

Let's start to think about the people who lost family members on board?

I FN hate the media and their 'jumping' to conclusions about why someone decided to auger an aircraft into the side of a mountain.

Here are a few things to take into consideration....

IF this was an idiot with a death wish, he would have done it as soon as the pilot left the cockpit - the same with a 'terrorist action'.....I'd think that someone would have left some kind of message or made a comment that was able to be picked up on the CP audio. This is something more than a run-of-the-mill suicide. This was probably an action based on some kind of vengeance or retribution - This idiot has some kind of beef with his employers or the world.

Don't listen to the 'latest' news. It's too soon to try to figure out the what and whys.

(On a side note, MSNBC is already talking to the people who are lining up the criminal case against Lufthansa, Airbus and the people who put the peanuts on board the plane.)

[Lady's Human]

As to the people who were lost, prayers have already gone out.


When the German chancellor thinks she has enough evidence to run with, i think the case is fairly well closed. Details will emerge over time, but the 50000 ft view of the event is fairly clear, and as more information comes out it just looks more damning.

This isn't like other airline crashes where they had no physical evidence to work with. They got the black boxes fairly rapidly, and the airbus is fly by wire, so the telemetry and data recordings are direct inputs from the flight computers.

[RICHARD]

As to the people who were lost, prayers have already gone out.


When the German chancellor thinks she has enough evidence to run with, i think the case is fairly well closed. Details will emerge over time, but the 50000 ft view of the event is fairly clear, and as more information comes out it just looks more damning.

This isn't like other airline crashes where they had no physical evidence to work with. They got the black boxes fairly rapidly, and the airbus is fly by wire, so the telemetry and data recordings are direct inputs from the flight computers.

No question as to the general facts of the crash, someone 'allowed' a passenger jet to hit a mountain.

The 'whys' are what - if there is enough evidence left behind - need to be uncovered?
My questions are pretty simple, IF you wanted to crash a passenger airliner for revenge/religion/suicide, why would you fly it for 8 minutes AFTER you locked out the pilot?

The longer you fly a plane, with the idea that you want to destroy it, the longer you have to have your plot foiled or having someone or something intervene in you plans.

If you were going to try to pull off a terrorist attack, you have control of a plane that you can pretty much fly around and target a building or a town. As we saw on 9/11, you pretty much have to be Johnny-on-the-spot to defeat a terrorist attack by air.

People want to know the reason as to why this happened.

Something is off with this story - when you get certain clues or facts/behaviors as the story unfolds, you can say, "Oh, that makes sense...." Something is very off with this crash......But, that is my view about stuff - I tend to over analyze stuff like this.

[Catty1]

Very scary. I hope they install a small washroom in the cockpit!

By now we know that Andreas Lubitz had been treated for depression, and had torn up many "sick day" notes from his doctor so he could fly. Did he really think he would be fired if he took those days?

Not sure how much of this can be blamed on the "stigma" that mental illness carries and/or the possibly intense fear that Lubitz felt about being honest about his health. And the ire of many folks might rightly be raised when I state that Lubitz was also a victim of a very different kind.

It is all too, too - beyond words.