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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: 3, Funny) by darkfeline on Tuesday March 24 2015, @05:59PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday March 24 2015, @05:59PM (#162049) Homepage

    >5000 fps
    What is fps? Fucks per second?

    That IS pretty fast. If I were cursing 5000 times per second something must have gone seriously wrong.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday March 24 2015, @10:03PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday March 24 2015, @10:03PM (#162149)

    I wonder why articles published to the general public sometimes seem determined to use annoying units. Is it so hard to put speeds in MPH or KPH? That way I don't have to do the unit conversions to have any idea how fast it was going. Just from looking at inches per second vs. miles per hour, the size of the number doesn't tell you anything.

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