re: Germanwings Crash: One Pilot locked out of cockpit at time of crash

Three minutes? I thought I heard it was 8 or 10 minutes to descend 30,000 to 33,000'.

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Is 3,000'/minute a rapid descent?

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It's not a nosedive but it's abnormal. Usually 1,000 ft/min or less would be more typical. Not to mention that the plane shouldn't have been descending at all at that point in the flight.

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In two of the 4 known suicidal pilot crashes, the suicidal pilot waited on the other pilot to leave. On the other two I couldn't tell if there were two pilots or if it was even suicide.

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You think I am arguing with you, which I am not. I agree with you.


On a side note, if a pilot is on a mission to crash his plane, he can do it (even with another pilot on the flight deck). I am just trying to make it clear that this isn't a widespread problem of pilots wanting to kill everyone and that it all comes down to that crashes have been prevented because there was another human in the cockpit. The real reason is this is extremely rare.

frick this nonsense. I don't think of suicide as a cowards way out or anything. But what kind of a-hole feels comfortable taking down 100+ people with him.

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The real reason is this is extremely rare.

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Yep, there is really nothing we can do to guarantee everyone's safety in this world. Will people call a ban on airplanes because of these mass killings using them (9/11, etc)? I doubt it.

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I don't think of suicide as a cowards way out or anything.

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It can be, or it might be the final solution for an unstable desperate person. If you take 150 other people out with you, I'd say it's done for attention and he's a coward. He's not around to face the thousands of grieving people (outside off his own family which is always affected)

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Yep, there is really nothing we can do to guarantee everyone's safety in this world. Will people call a ban on airplanes because of these mass killings using them (9/11, etc)? I doubt it.

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there needs to be some type of response to this situation.

must always have two people in cockpits. Maybe add something like to disengage auto pilot both pilots much press the disengage button, IDK.

But more importantly there needs to be intense screening to make sure we try to prevent further occurrences like this. But it is impossible to stop 100% of chances, sometimes people go under the radar and no-one would expect them to be depressed then suddenly they do something drastic like this out of the blue.

You put in as many checks and safety barriers to prevent loss of life, but no system will ever be perfect.

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had told her daughter he had taken a break from his pilot training because he was suffering from depression.



this statement I would think all but rules out terrorist connections. Something really horrible must have happened in his life for him to consider this possibility.

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And passed all of his "psychological exams" given by lufthansa.

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come on girl, what info do you think that would provide? want to hear us belch after meals, tell dirty jokes, or snore on a 13 hr. flight?

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There's cameras mounted above the drillers console on all new modern drilling rigs and the data is transmitted straight to a server.

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Lufthansa pilots go through an extensive battery of physical and psychological testing, Spohr said. Instructors spend time with trainees to get a sense of their psychological fitness, but Lufthansa’s protocol does not call for interviews with a potential pilot’s friends or families. Moreover, Spohr said Lufthansa routinely checks on pilots’ ability to fly, but that psychological exams are not implemented once training ends.

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I guess only when training.