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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @09:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @09:20AM (#162282)

    I agree this news shouldn't be on a tech-centric site. /. pulls this crap too, sometimes it's even news about celebrities! The whole appeal of sites like SN and /. is that they are for a very specific audience, bringing news that you don't find on other news sites.

    Every other news site is already all over this crash, it's not like you're providing a community service to nerds who need to know what's happening in the world.

    Whether the crash had anything to do with technology is pure speculation at this point with no opportunity to draw any conclusions. An investigation into what caused the crash has only just begun and it'll be months before we get results.