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Another plane crash

Lurtz

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Bjornebye Grand Master

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I read something once where a BA pilot said even if all the engines fail, the plane is still very land-able and you have a certain amount of distance gliding (miles depending on altitude). Especially the big planes. This looks like he has nose-dived. I can only assume until it's confirmed otherwise that Godzilla threw something at it.

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Total Longo
Total Longo

There's your problem, right there, in a nutshell. Women flying planes?? What next, cats doing brain surgery?

Chip Butty
Chip Butty

A slow decline? Enclosed in the cockpit on his own? Pointing east-ish(in the direction of qibla)? Loads of time to pray to his god and end it all. You want to take a plane down, you go right down, ful

old skool tom
old skool tom

i'm alive and kicking Turds! after my heroics of boarding a 30 minute flight to Dublin and back...........i average a flight about once every 12 years so i wont be dying or getting on another of thos

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Aliens

 

 

http://aviationweek.com/blog/germanwings-flight-4u95625-what-we-know-so-far

 

 

  • Aircraft: Germanwings Airbus A320; MSN147, D-AIPX. Delivered to Lufthansa in 1991. 24 years old. 58,300 hr and 46,700 cycles. Powered by two CFM56-5A1 turbofan engines. Germanwings is a low-fare arm of Lufthansa. Source: Airbus
  • More airframe information is available in this blog from Aviation Week Intelligence Network's fleets team 
  • Captain: 6,000 hr. flight time. Airline pilot for 10 years. Source: Germanwings press conference
  • Takeoff: 10:00 am local time in Barcelona (GMT+1). Source: Flightradar24.com, FlightAware.com
  • Route: Barcelona to Dusseldorf – 144 passengers and six crew. Same route flown by 4U9525 (D-AIQP) the previous day. Graphic by Flightradar24.com

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  • Reached cruise altitude of FL380 (approximately 38,000 ft.) roughly 27 minutes after takeoff at 10:27 am local time. Cruise ground speed of 476 kt., similar to previous day’s flight. Source: Flightradar24.com
  • Began a descent from cruise altitude without clearance and with no communications from the crew to air traffic control at approximately 10:31 am local time. Transponder code throughout the flight remained on the initial assigned code of 5512 (the emergency code is 7700). Source: Germanwings press conference, Flightradar24.com, FlightAware.com
  • Descent continued relatively straight ahead for approximately 9 minutes at vertical descent rates from 2,000 – 5,000 feet per minute. Ground speed varied between 490 kt. and 378 kt. at time of last ADS-B signal received. Source: Flightradar.com
  • Last position picked up by a Flightradar24 ground ADS-B receiver at approximately 10:40 am local and 6,800 ft. altitude, either due to crash or loss of signal at the receiver site. Source: Flightradar.com
  • Lufthansa’s last fatal accident involved another one of its Airbus A320s registered as D-AIPN. The aircraft overshot the runway upon landing at Warsaw’s Chopin International Airport on September 14, 1993. Two people on board died. 
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The earth's magnetic field is changing. I can feel it in my waters

  

 

It actually does. Runway designators (Dublins main runway is "28" for example) are based on their position, and they change due to shifting magnetic fields. Recenty a runway in the UK was re-designated by 1 degree.

 

It's crazy how all these planes have been coming down lately, when it seems like the only major crash other than very recently was that Air France crash over the Pacific.

It's not been dramatically different it's just that the crashes have been very high profile. The two MH crashes, with one being shot down and the other disappearing off the face of the earth, have been headline news, whereas crashes last year didn't result in as many deaths or were anywhere near as dramatic. But we're crashes nonetheless.

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