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BREAKING: Germanwings Airbus A-320-200 Crashes in the French Alps

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly

morpheus writes:

A Germanwings (Lufthansa subsidiary) Airbus A-320-200 airliner has crashed in the French Alps. It is reported to have carried 154 people on board (including 6 crew members). Unfortunately, no survivors have been found so far. There were reports about the crew sending out distress calls shortly before the crash. The flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf was last registered on the radar at 6800 feet.

http://www.laprovence.com/article/actualites/3326948/un-airbus-a320-secrase-dans-les-alpes-de-haute-provence.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-france-crash-airbus-lufthansa-idUSKBN0MK0ZP20150324

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/24/german-a320-airbus-plane-crashes-french-alps

[Edit 16:35 UTC. janrinok. Source: BBC] The 'black box' has been recovered. The aircraft descent took place over a period of approximately 8 minutes, and communication between the crew and the French air traffic controllers was 'broken' when the aircraft was at an altitude of around 6000 feet. The TV pictures being broadcast show a large number of helicopters being deployed to a snow free landing-zone but the surrounding mountains have significant snow cover and there is a low cloudbase. French authorities have said that the recovery of the bodies will take 'several days'.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Tuesday March 24 2015, @04:32PM

    by zocalo (302) on Tuesday March 24 2015, @04:32PM (#162005)
    No, the word "it" definitely referred to the descent. The following part of the quote, that I dropped since it was obviously a crap platitude, stated that it was unlikely that the passengers were aware there was a problem. That's clearly bullshit since it's pretty obvious that any barring a catastrophic explosion or similar event that there is no way that anyone onboard an aircraft suffering a major incident at altitude resulting in a sudden descent is NOT going to be aware there is a problem of some kind - let alone when the descent takes several minutes as the source believed to be the case here. Even then there's a possibility of surviving the initial calamity - viz. the theory that some of the crew of Challenger might have survived the initial explosion and died in the impact with the ocean some minutes later, albeit most probably losing conciousness during the descent.
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