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2015-03-26 Europe

Germanwings Crash: Co-Pilot Lubitz Appears to Have Intentionally Brought Airbus Down

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Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-26 09:02|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 No known links to terrorism at this time.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-26 09:03|| 2015-03-26 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Lubitz 'lifestyle' links?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-26 09:20|| 2015-03-26 09:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Lived in Marseilles, that's a lifestyle town.

Posted by Grunter 2015-03-26 10:19|| 2015-03-26 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Less than 700 flight hours, WTF?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-03-26 10:47|| 2015-03-26 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 No known links to terrorism at this time.

No known links except for having committed an act of terrorism.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-03-26 10:59|| 2015-03-26 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 German, might have been suffering from the sorrows of young Werther.

Posted by Shipman 2015-03-26 11:02|| 2015-03-26 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll bet AP has 700 hrs on tie downs.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-26 11:05|| 2015-03-26 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 They're saying he suffered from depression. So let's say he's depressed.....and he decides that not only will he destroy his own life but those of 150 others? Do most suicidal people really want to be remembered that way?

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-03-26 12:44|| 2015-03-26 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Why are we not being given the name of the third American killed? The news yesterday said they'd been in contact with the victim's family but "out of respect" they weren't releasing the name.

How does that work?

Was the person having an affair with one of the other two Americans killed, or was it really somebody very important?

How do we get away these days with selectively releasing victims names?

So bizarre.

Everything's a lie or a coverup these days.

Posted by Thereting Poodle9228 2015-03-26 13:20|| 2015-03-26 13:20|| Front Page Top

#10 He doesn't know his ethnicity or his religion, but says "I don't think that's where the answer to this lies."

If you don't know, then how can you say, "It can't be that"?

Posted by Bobby 2015-03-26 13:39|| 2015-03-26 13:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Silentbrick, In the past the answer would be no, but we currently have a generation that attacks their school rather than a normal suicide so who can say.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-03-26 14:27|| 2015-03-26 14:27|| Front Page Top

#12 How do we get away these days with selectively releasing victims names?
How does that work?

Maybe it's the same reason that you used a generated nym when you commented?

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-26 16:05|| 2015-03-26 16:05|| Front Page Top

#13 @#7: ouch...

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-26 16:15|| 2015-03-26 16:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Why is the pilot's name being kept quiet? Why just Patrick S.?

Pappy, you are the same person that was making cranky comments to me years and years ago on this forum.

Why would I even want to post with an actual fake name on forums?

Same nasty people everywhere I go.

Posted by Thereting Poodle9228 2015-03-26 17:47|| 2015-03-26 17:47|| Front Page Top

#15 The pilot's name has been published, too.

Posted by European Conservative 2015-03-26 17:56|| 2015-03-26 17:56|| Front Page Top

#16 Hup ~ 7 was a actually compliment.

Poodle ~ Not much changes here but the weather. Something to be said for consistency I always say.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-26 17:56|| 2015-03-26 17:56|| Front Page Top

#17 EC ~ Sorry for your country's loss. Such a sad, sad waste of young lives.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-26 17:59|| 2015-03-26 17:59|| Front Page Top

#18 @#16 - Got it. You were referring to Alaska Paul. The time I've spent sniffing fuel samples may have caused a little drain bamage.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-26 19:04|| 2015-03-26 19:04|| Front Page Top

#19 Why is the pilot's name being kept quiet? Why just Patrick S.?

As EC mentioned, they released the pilot's name some 4-6 hours ago.

As for not having released the third passenger's name, I can think of half a dozen innocuous and much less tin-foil-hatted reasons. Like a family member who was incommunicado, or for health reasons, who would be adversely affected were the information released before the family got news to them first. Try working in casualty notification sometime.

Same nasty people everywhere I go.

Ever think that it might be you?

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-26 19:09|| 2015-03-26 19:09|| Front Page Top

#20 Please move reference @#13 to @#19!

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-26 19:56|| 2015-03-26 19:56|| Front Page Top

#21 And - as for the way the pilot was initially identified: perhaps our German colleague will correct me, but I think it was in compliance with privacy laws, or legal procedures, or perhaps both.

Sometimes not initially releasing the name may have benefit.

Consider the Boston Bomber, young Mr. Tsarnev. He told his friends that, should they hear his name on the news, they were to dispose of a backpack, a laptop, and other items he left with them.

They found most of it in a landfill, by the way.

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-26 20:43|| 2015-03-26 20:43|| Front Page Top

#22 I have over 3000 hr of flight time, with an equal number of safe takeoffs and landings.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-03-26 20:48|| 2015-03-26 20:48|| Front Page Top

#23 @#22: And that, unless you are 135 or 121, is always good to see in balance!

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-26 20:56|| 2015-03-26 20:56|| Front Page Top

#24 Thank you Besoeker for always having been a gentleman.

I haven't been here much over the last decade, but you were always a pleasure to read, along with Fred.

It's nice to know you are both doing well.

Posted by Thereting Poodle9228 2015-03-26 21:57|| 2015-03-26 21:57|| Front Page Top

#25 German press (yellow press excepted) still doesn't spell out both names, which seems rather pointless now.

It seems clear by now that this was murder. Yellow press has reported access to documents that prove mental instability of the FO, and that authorities knew about them. Some heads will roll over this.

Posted by European Conservative 2015-03-26 22:51|| 2015-03-26 22:51|| Front Page Top

#26 Buddies tell me, as I make the rounds,
That my butt sometimes rudely expounds.
They don't think it is crass
When I show them my ass
But they pass on the gas and the sounds.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-03-26 23:11|| 2015-03-26 23:11|| Front Page Top

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