Ah ok, is there a cite for the info?
Edit: Never mind, I found it. Not a satellite link, just the transponder data (not a significant difference, just saying.)
Isn’t my comment self-explanatory?
They are reaching a bit, but it’s a legitimate position nonetheless.
Yeah I didn’t know that either. I knew there was various data sent for an ADSB aircraft, but didn’t know it included the selected altitude.
Why set to descent as opposed to pushing the stick down/forward?
Maybe “Germanwings” appeals more to a broader European, non-German market of passengers.
No, satellite link. FlightRadar24, an online air tracking service that uses satellite data, said it had found evidence the autopilot was abruptly switched from cruising altitude to just 100 feet, the lowest possible setting. The plane crashed at about 6,000 feet.
“Between 09:30:52 and 09:30:55 you can see that the autopilot was manually changed from 38,000 feet to 100 feet and 9 seconds later the aircraft started to descend, probably with the ‘open descent’ autopilot setting,” Fredrik Lindahl, chief executive of the Swedish tracking service, said.
Yes. Plus, in Germany, English use is on the rise:
I’m lucky to be a native English speaker.
FlightRadar24 uses ADS-B (transponder) data.
Airliners are highly automated. The majority of flight is done by computers.
Because the co pilot was heard breathing steadily all the way down.
I agree. This seems like reasonable information to publish. And reasonable for Lufthansa to apologize and publicly express distress.
It probably means he wasn’t surprised that the plane descended rapidly. It suggests intent.
It uses the ADS-B satellite link.
I keep thinking of that guy in Saskatchewan who just snapped one day and beheaded his seatmate on an intercity bus. Maybe the copilot snapped? Or maybe underlying problems, and he couldn’t hold it together anymore?
There is no such thing. ADS-B is airplane to receiver (ground or air).
Do we know this?
Is there any possibility the lock or PIN pad mechanism malfunctioned or that the crew were simply given the wrong code?
I realize that is EXTREMELY unlikely. But a lot of accidents have happened when a bunch of unlikely things happened all at once.
The only source is Lufthansa CEO saying it “seems to be true” that the co-pilot actively denied access to the captain.
No, I have no idea what you are talking about.
Space aliens could have beamed the copilot out of the plane. Anything’s possible.
When you’re talking about the “Crew” there was a pilot in the cockpit breathing normally. No sign of physical distress. The descent was controlled. It had to be inputted into the FMS or skillfully done by the copilot. So either he inputted a deadly descent and became medically incapacitated in a way that kept him breathing normally but couldn’t speak or he deliberately kept the Captain out and crashed the plane. There are no alternative universes that work here.
I was not talking about the the flight controls. I was talking about the procedure to unlock the cockpit door. If you saw the video, there is a PIN pad outside the cockpit and there is an emergency code to gain access to the cockpit. What if the crew members that were locked out of the cockpit couldn’t get back in because the PIN pad was defective, the lock was defective, or they didn’t know the emergency code?
I made no comment regarding how the autopilot was set to descend to 100 feet.
well considering the copilot stopped flight training for a year because of psychological problems that would be a distinct possibility.