The story of the crashed Germanwings plane is still unfolding but sufficient details have emerged which proved that the plane was purposely crashed by the co-pilot after encouraging the captain to leave the cockpit and then locking him out.
Whether the co-pilot's action resulted from his medical problems has not been properly ascertained. Acquaintances of the co-pilot have recounted previous statements from him suggesting he might have been planning this gruesome act for a long time.
I guess, plane makers should be thinking of making cockpits accessible from both ends to captains or both pilots.
The action of the co-pilot to say the least is wicked. He was ready to die. But he decided to take over 100 innocent people along. What is the differece between him and suicide bombers?
Here is how the New York post reported the story.
Germanwings kamikaze urged pilot to leave cockpit before crash
Whether the co-pilot's action resulted from his medical problems has not been properly ascertained. Acquaintances of the co-pilot have recounted previous statements from him suggesting he might have been planning this gruesome act for a long time.
I guess, plane makers should be thinking of making cockpits accessible from both ends to captains or both pilots.
The action of the co-pilot to say the least is wicked. He was ready to die. But he decided to take over 100 innocent people along. What is the differece between him and suicide bombers?
Here is how the New York post reported the story.
Germanwings kamikaze urged pilot to leave cockpit before crash
The murderous co-pilot who intentionally crashed an Airbus into the French Alps last week, killing all on board, repeatedly encouraged the captain to take a bathroom break minutes earlier — so he would be left alone for his suicide plot, a new report revealed Sunday.
The chilling revelation came as it also surfaced that the doomed plane’s 149 passengers and crew were terrifyingly aware something dire was happening for up to 8 minutes before the crash killed them.
Germanwings Flight 9525 had begun routinely enough on the morning of March 24. Before the plane took off from Barcelona, Captain Patrick Sondenheimer lamented that he hadn’t gone to the bathroom, according to Germany’s Bild newspaper, based on information from the flight’s voice recorder.
Deranged co-pilot Andreas Lubitz coolly told him to go anytime, sources said.
But Sondenheimer insisted on getting them to cruising altitude first — 38,000 feet — and then discussed their plans to land in Düsseldorf.
As the captain talked about the landing, Lubitz, 27, chillingly replied with “Hopefully’’ and “We’ll see’’ at different times, sources said.
At 10:27 a.m., after the plane reached its cruising altitude, Lubitz tried to push the plane’s captain out the door again.
“You can go now,” he said.
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