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Lufthansa Germanwings Airbus A320 Crashes In French Alps; 148 Feared Dead
Update: The plane's vertical height trajectory...
Moments ago, a Lufthansa Germanwings Airbus A320, flight 4U9525, on a Barcelona to Dusseldorf route, was reported to have crashed in the area of Digne, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France, an area which French president Hollande said is "very difficult to access." According to Plane Finder, the Germanwings plane, callsign D-AIPX, was a 24 year old A320 and part of the Germanwings fleet. Germanwings is a low-cost affiliate of German airline Lufthansa, which was created in 1997. Tuesday's Airbus A320 crash has been the first accident in the history of Germanwings.
French Interior Minister is heading to the crash site, Le Monde reported. The information was also confirmed by the local authorities of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
UPDATE CRASH The aircraft was delivered on 1991-02-05 to Lufthansa http://t.co/pFdVDioV0e pic.twitter.com/KqMiU7ctNq
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) March 24, 2015
Last few positions of the @germanwings flight plotted on a map pic.twitter.com/UX5G1gYGX7
— Plane Finder (@planefinder) March 24, 2015
According to initial press reports the plane had 142 passengers on board, with another 6 in the flight crew.
It appears the flight had sent out a distressed signal at 9:47 UTC, minutes before its final moments:
BREAKING Distress call was received by ATC at 9:47 UTC http://t.co/Ah5H6qxIRp pic.twitter.com/FBYoIWnYkD
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) March 24, 2015
Plane Finder data shows the last known location of the airplane:
And the same from FlightRadar:
Germanwings flight #4U9525 (registration D-AIPX) was lost from Flightradar24 at 6800 feet at 09.39 UTC time. pic.twitter.com/vZaQMUlLaZ
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 24, 2015
As Plane Finder also notes, below is the rate of descent of the flight in its last moments.
The weather conditions at the time of the crash were calm:
ALERT Weather conditions were calm at the time of the crash, French weather reports say - @la_chaine_meteo http://t.co/oP1Fmv2O2w
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) March 24, 2015
French president Hollande has added that it is unlikely there were any survivors in the crash.
#BREAKING No survivors expected in French Alps plane crash: Hollande
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) March 24, 2015
There is currently a French EC-135 flying above the crash site:
nearly perfect loop around crash area by @Armee_de_lair EC-135. #germanwings @Missilito pic.twitter.com/oedXpF89td
— nassime (@willambeIli) March 24, 2015
According to Sputnik.net, over 240 French firemen and 210 police officers are heading to the crash site. The flight was declared in distress at 10:47 local time near Barcelonnette, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
The wreckage of crashed Germanwings Airbus A320 is located at 6,500 feet in the mountains, the French Interior Ministry said.
This is the first plane crash on French soil since July 25, 2000 when Air France flight 4590 en route from Paris to New York City crashed in Paris suburbs, Gonesse. All 100 passengers and nine crewmembers on board the flight died.
Full coverage of the early news from AFP:
Lufthansa issued the following brief statement:
"We do not yet know what has happened to flight 4U 9525. My deepest sympathy goes to the families and friends of our passengers and crew 1/2
— Lufthansa (@lufthansa) March 24, 2015
"...on 4U 9525. If our fears are confirmed, this is a dark day for Lufthansa. We hope to find survivors.“ Carsten Spohr 2/2
— Lufthansa (@lufthansa) March 24, 2015
The Dusseldorf Airport website crashes:
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In time, we'll find-out who was on that plane. Surely some high-value Banker's were on the manifest. Another Rothschild/Rockefeller ordered hit. Curious though, they know exactly where this jet went down. Malaysia flight, not so much....
Was Tsipras on that flight? Maybe Varafaukis?
Put a coin in the douchebag jar please. 1000s of threads of ZH, you pick this one for that.
My favorite is the one way flight to mars. Isn't it fun to think of who you'd put on that list? Even though it's a laughable scam and a hoax.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/19/that-one-wa...
Bullish
148 less pension obligations for French gov
A baby eating "Dingo22"? What is that, some variety of isotope?
RIP - strength and courage to the families
Thanks, Obama!
12:13 - French civil aviation authories say a distress call was received at 1047 local time. The plane had been descending at 5,000 feet near the village of Bercelonnette about 100 km (65 miles) north of the French city Nice.
http://www.dw.de/live-germanwings-crash-in-alps/a-18336127
No claims of false flag yet? That's a ZH go-to in these cases.
First photos from Crash site
http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/etc/40451-4u9525-germanwings-fotos-vom-crash
hey look! there's luggage & fuselages & everything... I thought all that stuff was designed to disintegrate at impact... and leave only a smouldering black hole.
No. That only happens when there are Dancing Jews in New York. You need to study the rules better.
It didn't explode in flames, maybe there is hope for survivors.
Looks almost like it pancaked.
Sorry, that's a picture from a 2007 crash in Turkey:
http://www.haber32.com.tr/haber/kazadaki-belirsizlik-suruyor-haberi-4975...
What am I missing here?
You initiate a climb (with a negative descent rate?) from 10K to 38K and hit a mountain?
I don't think it works like that.
A German plane crashes in French territory.... German and France, EU big two.
Was Lloyd Blankfein or Jamie Dimon on board?
On board GS and JP Morgan. They are too big to fail. No crash landings there.
Why was the plane flying so far off the perfect circle route? The crash site is 140 miles to the east of the perfect circle route.
Look at the flight path for the previous days....this is why. It appears to be the normal route for the flight.
Surely this is a mistake ? Germany is not holding Iraq war crime trials. justice4germans.com
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When I first joined this board was the ratio of innate, mean spirited, dim witted comments this high?
God bless the victims on their journey
I wonder how many mid-level bankers were on that plane? Or other whistleblowers? It's amazing how many of those folks die in plane crashes.
Didn't take long for the Cult Of Putin to show up to dump on the West. I love watching them go full retard over anything.
a post about a plane crash but nothing about the huge political movement in the mid east with the surprise reelection of nutandyahoo.
just thought i'd call zh out on that bs.
4U9525? Germanwings:
NO emergancy call from pilots
Discussion about possible Terror-Attack:
http://tersee.com/#!q=germanwings&t=text
it happened on the safest phase of the flightpath
Telling comment from www.pprune.org:
"I am a licensed engineer on A320. Retired. Avionics.
From my lounge chair I am seeing a lot of things that look pitot static related ............... and each accident with airbus there is a shotgun fix ...... quick lets change the pitot probes and see if that worked ....... oh hang on it didn't ....."
Sure they are slow and use a lot of fuel and may well be less comfortable overall, and have different cockpits in every type, but I tend towards flying these days as pax with airlines who still fly Boeings to where I want to go just because I feel more at ease.
I know airbus have had some spectacular cases where the aircraft has outperformed any other in dire situations, it's just that it also has too many moments where it has demonstrated unexplainable prediciments.
On board were 16 students of my hometown. Haltern am See. I work for a farmer here in Germany and his niece was on it too...
Send your boss my deep condolences. I am certain that this is a dark day for him.
Flying over the Alps south of Geneva has always been risky due to the weather/wind patterns there.
Lufthansa has a very good safety record. I doubt if there was a mechanical failure...maybe
it was an instrument failure.... or a sudden down draft. A horrific crash in the end leaving bits and
pieces of the plane no bigger than a Volkswagan bug.
We all know the odds are stacked on making your destination > 99.999% .... but for those whose fates place them as statistical outliers,
the final moments must be indescrible and there but for fate's cruel luck go us all. Peace a heartfelt peaceful offer of eternity for the paasengers & crew aboard.
Whatever happened affected both engines simultaneously then as these planes can maintain perfectly safe flight on one engine. Does anyone know what the distress signal indicated ?? Hopefuly the flight recorder will be recoverable. Its also possible the A320 sent automated status and error telemetry out, which will help the investigation
RT reported that they've identified the general location of the Plane's Black Box.
Just from the charts, looks like a case of rapid depressurization in the Cabin. Which can be caused by:
8 Minute Period from the beginning to the end of the descent. Since the newsfeed graphics show no course deviations for the plane, it "looks" like it went straight down to the ground while trying to counter the depressurization or simply driven there w/malice.
Since no more data (radio dialogue) has been released, we'll just have to wait.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/germanwings-plane-crash-pilot-locked-out-of-cockpit-20150326-1m7w5g.html
Very strange.