Airbus A320 - Flight 4U 9525

After 9/11 the doors where fitted to protect the pilots from the passengers, now they are trying to find a way to protect the passengers from the pilots. This really is a screwed up world.

(26-03-2015 19:54 )SecretAgent Wrote:  Lufthansa have announced they have full confidence in their pilot selection processes and won't be changing their cockpit policy of allowing one pilot to be on their own.

It looks like they won't have any choice though, as 2 people in the cockpit at all times is likely to become mandatory.

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Yeah that was their original statement yesterday but in the past 24 hours the German Aviation Authority and now European regulators are going to make it mandatory to have 2 crew in the cockpit at all times

So, he was being treated for eyesight problems hence the sick note. If the Airline knew he would probably have been grounded. Instead, he chose to take 150 people with him.

I just don't have the words.

(27-03-2015 13:28 )Bandwagon Wrote:  the part I find crazy is why the plane can't be remotely switched to auto-pilot from land if the plane is still fully operational and is clearly in some kind of trouble?

You don't want somebody on the ground to be able to override an aircraft.
When I'm going on a trip I do not want some kid hacking into the aircraft flight system and crashing it.

German newspaper Bild is claiming to have seen video footage taken onboard by a passenger during the last moments, and recovered from a mobile phone memory card found at the crash site. Paris Match also says they have seen it. However, investigators have denied that any such video exists.

(31-03-2015 11:09 )magdala Wrote:  

(27-03-2015 13:28 )Bandwagon Wrote:  the part I find crazy is why the plane can't be remotely switched to auto-pilot from land if the plane is still fully operational and is clearly in some kind of trouble?

You don't want somebody on the ground to be able to override an aircraft.
When I'm going on a trip I do not want some kid hacking into the aircraft flight system and crashing it.

Just imagine the carnage terrorist groups could create if they could hack in and fly the planes remotely. It doesn't bare thinking about.

i understand what your all saying about hacking the plane but to be able to activate and engage the auto pilot would be advantageous, as far as i know passenger jets can't be flown by wire. i mean if terrorist had the capabilities to hack that system whats to stop them hacking air traffic control and causing havoc.

(31-03-2015 23:46 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  German newspaper Bild is claiming to have seen video footage taken onboard by a passenger during the last moments, and recovered from a mobile phone memory card found at the crash site. Paris Match also says they have seen it. However, investigators have denied that any such video exists.

If a mobile phone survived the crash it is possible that it uploaded a video file to the cloud? Some people know their partner's password and would be able to retrieve a file.

Probably there was no signal at the mountain crash site, but is it possible that a phone uploaded a video as soon as it was retrieved and taken to a suitable place?

^apparently they found an sd card inside a phone that was still intact.