News Broke apart in mid-air Germanwings - Page 4

**digger** · 03-24-2015, 04:08 PM

http://www.theguardian.com/world/liv...s-live-updates

**mdchiefsfan** · 03-25-2015, 04:41 AM

I read the thread title and got excited, thinking Daru had returned.

**loochy** · 03-25-2015, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by notorious

The fat lady has sung.

Going to hell, I am.

Sully · 03-25-2015, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Aries Walker

475 people died in airplane crashes all year in 2012, in the entire world. Statistically, you can fly in an airplane every day for 123,000 years before you crash and burn. (Source)

If only cars had that kind of safety record.

I wish this was the shit my brain switched to during every takeoff and landing.

Unfortunately, all I can think of is crashing with two opera singers.

Sully · 03-25-2015, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Rausch

For me this argument is about the lack of control.

If I (or someone on my roadway) makes a mistake I can correct it.

On a plane if something goes horribly bad it's over. I'm dead.

Hell, more people die every year sitting on recliners than will ever die in plane crashes. That doesn't make recliners unsafe...

I agree.

Lack of control, as well as a severe lack of even being able to see what's going on.

Also, in a car crash, it just happens. In a lot of plane crashes, there's warning and time, which is even more terrifying.

**gblowfish** · 03-25-2015, 08:22 AM

Well, I'm sure the headlong plunge to certain death was awful, but I bet the opera singers screams of terror were octaves and several decibels above the rest of the passengers.

**Rain Man** · 03-25-2015, 06:10 PM

Uh-oh. One of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit when the plane crashed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/europe...ain/index.html

• 7:51 p.m. ET: One of the pilots on board Germanwings Flight 9525 was locked out of the cockpit when the plane crashed Tuesday, a senior military official told The New York Times, citing evidence from the cockpit voice recorder.

However, I'm kind of liking the theory that they had a pressurization problem and were descending to get down to breathable air, forgetting that there are alps out there. Maybe the second pilot ran into trouble while the pilot was at the latrine and couldn't find time to get him back in.

booger · 03-25-2015, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Uh-oh. One of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit when the plane crashed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/europe...ain/index.html

• 7:51 p.m. ET: One of the pilots on board Germanwings Flight 9525 was locked out of the cockpit when the plane crashed Tuesday, a senior military official told The New York Times, citing evidence from the cockpit voice recorder.

However, I'm kind of liking the theory that they had a pressurization problem and were descending to get down to breathable air, forgetting that there are alps out there. Maybe the second pilot ran into trouble while the pilot was at the latrine and couldn't find time to get him back in.

On tv they quoted military official saying the pilot locked out spent that 8-10 minutes trying to beat the door down. Voice recording gonna play a big roll trying to figure it all out

**Rain Man** · 03-25-2015, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by booger

On tv they quoted military official saying the pilot locked out spent that 8-10 minutes trying to beat the door down. Voice recording gonna play a big roll trying to figure it all out

Well, this is going to be interesting. At least we'll likely have an answer. But that's weird if it was going on that long. It seems like the theories would be...

1. Terrorist pilot.

2. Copilot had a heart attack or something while the pilot was out.

3. Copilot got busy with a disaster and couldn't take time to get the door open.

Any other theories? Given what you said, I almost wonder if it was #2.

BWillie · 03-25-2015, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Why Not?

Most of those civilian crashes are small, privately owned and flown planes. The majority of the rest occur in foreign countries. How many commercial plane crashes occur per month in the USA?

Flying in a commercial airplane from a major airline based in the USA is literally safer than most other things you would do pre and post flight the day of your trip.

I can only imagine the horror of knowing you are in a plane about to crash. I can't imagine much worse. But the chances of that occurring to any of us or anyone we know(no offense if you happen to have lost some one this way, just making a point)is so minute, there would be almost no way to get a tangible percentage.

I would venture to say that flying on a commercial airplane is safer than sitting at a park in downtown Kansas City Missouri for a similar amount of time

**sd4chiefs** · 03-25-2015, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Any other theories? Given what you said, I almost wonder if it was #2.

Co-Pilot committed suicide.

booger · 03-25-2015, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Well, this is going to be interesting. At least we'll likely have an answer. But that's weird if it was going on that long. It seems like the theories would be...

1. Terrorist pilot.

2. Copilot had a heart attack or something while the pilot was out.

3. Copilot got busy with a disaster and couldn't take time to get the door open.

Any other theories? Given what you said, I almost wonder if it was #2.

Would be my mostly likely guess too. Seems like experts say protocol is for stewardess to come in, 2 in the cockpit rule at all times. But that may be something they don't follow as close over seas. I'd say though yeah probably heart attack or something. Who knows but they're gonna be debating all those things for days if not weeks

**Rain Man** · 03-25-2015, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sd4chiefs

Co-Pilot committed suicide.

Ah. Good theory.

booger · 03-25-2015, 06:32 PM

That's total hell on earth what all those people went through in that last 8-10 minutes.

**sd4chiefs** · 03-25-2015, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Sully

I wish this was the shit my brain switched to during every takeoff and landing.

Unfortunately, all I can think of is crashing with two opera singers.

For some reason the sound of the plane engine's makes me sleepy. Sometimes I fall asleep before the plane takes off.

booger · 03-25-2015, 06:37 PM

This is the discount airlines they pay pilots and attendants less than bigger companies. Hopefully they didn't hire someone with mental issues cause no one else would. Gonna go over and over their background and medical info for sure

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