“You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?_r=0
Thats an ugly way to go out.
Let me guess, the co-pilot’s name is Abdul Muhammad. All kidding aside, it is hard to imagine a senario where this is accidental if the reports are true.
Not much of a statement in crashing 150 people into the side of a mountain.
More interested in the manifest to see if anyone of high value was onboard.
Have the released the name of the pilots yet?
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My guess is that it was intentional.
I’m guessing it’s intentional but maybe the pilot had a brain aneurysm.
My understanding from this evening’s reporting is that the cabin lock-out has 3 settings: unlocked, manual, and locked. The first is self-explanatory. The second locks the door but allows the door to be opened from the cabin exterior with a combination. Locked removes the ability to use the combination and essentially seals the cabin. According to CNN, the SOP is for the cabin door to be set on manual when one of the crew exits to take a whiz so that they could re-enter with the combination in case of an emergency with the remaining crew member. Thus, someone would have had to accidently set the door to locked and then experienced an incapacitating event after their partner exited the cabin. That sounds possible but not likely.
The pilot/co-pilot who was heard trying to smash in the door would have had a code to enter the door with. HOWEVER, the code can be overridden from inside the cockpit. The plot thickens…
EDT: didn’t see Sensei’s post above mine. But he’s right, possible but not likely.
They just announced it was deliberate.
Bah, beat me to it.
…and the guys name is not Abdul. It’s some German dude.
Either he is a converted muslim, has some family that was abducted by muslims that forced him to do this, or he just wanted to off himself and take 100+ people with him.
Let us not try and act like crazed lunatics don’t commit acts of mass murder for reasons other than Islam.
Focusing too much on Islam is just as bad as ignoring it all together.
I listed three options, not trying or acting, like anything.
Further, if you had to wager your entire net worth on a 2015 violent act involving the hijacking and crashing of a commercial airliner, and I gave you four choices…you’d pick something other than Radical Islamist/Influenced by Radical Islamist(s)?
My post wasn’t directed at you at all, just the thread direction in general.
Of course I’d bet on Islam, but confirmation bias is still no bueno. When AA Flight 587 crashed in Queens 2 months after 9/11, everyone thought it was terrorism, when it was in fact a direct result of poor pilot training.
Silk Air Flight 185 is another example. The guy just lost over a million dollars, was pissed at the world, and took everyone down with him.
My only point is that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions, not that we should pretend Islam could never be responsible.
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We may never know, but it is also unlikely we will ever get an autopsy either. Apparently he was very normal and well liked to those around him. Wondering if you could have a brain aneurism and breath “normally” after your melon went out of order?
Even if you say terrorism didn’t cause it, you have to admit, if people didn’t take hostages, break down doors to the cabin or commit terrorist acts and hijackings, that door would have been able to be opened.
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