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Airbus A320 has crashed in the French Alps

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Victims of Germanwings Alps crash


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March 26, 2015, 2:52 am

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Paris (AFP) - Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 that crashed with no survivors in the French Alps on Tuesday was carrying 144 passengers and six crew from more than a dozen countries.

Most of those on board were Spanish or German but others came from as far afield as Australia and Colombia.

Authorities are in the process of confirming the nationalities of the victims, a task complicated by a number of travellers with dual nationality which might explain the discrepancy in some of the figures.

Here is what is known of the victims:


Germany

Germanwings confirmed that at least 72 Germans were on board, including two babies and 16 teenage school pupils and their two female teachers from the Joseph Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern am See, north of Duesseldorf.

The group had been on a week-long exchange trip in Llinars del Valles near Barcelona, paying a reciprocal visit after Spanish students came to Haltern in December.

Kazakh-German opera singer Oleg Bryjak, 54, who had just performed the character Alberich in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu was also among the dead.

Spain


At least 49 Spaniards died, junior security minister Francisco Martinez told a news conference. Germanwings executive Thomas Winkelmann, however, said the latest estimate was that 35 passengers were Spanish.

Reports in Spain and Britain named one victim as Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio, 37, and her baby. Originally from Jaca in the Spanish Pyrenees but living in Rochdale near Manchester in Britain, Lopez-Belio had been attending a relative's funeral in Spain.

Other victims, according to sources and reports, included a young married couple as well as numerous local Catalan business figures, including four members of the same family.

Other Europeans

At least three British nationals died, according to British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.

One Belgian, one Dutch and one Dane have also been confirmed by the airline or local authorities.

United States


Germanwings said two Americans were on board, while French Prime Minister Manuel Valls put the number at one earlier in the day.

South Americans

Two Argentines were on board, according to Germanwings. A third, who lives in Paraguay, also died, according to his brother.

Colombians Maria del Pilar Tejada and Luis Eduardo Medrano died, the Colombian foreign ministry said. Germanwings said only there was only one Colombian victim.

Two Venezuelans were also on board, according to the airline.

Australia

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said two Australians were on board.

Japan


The Japanese foreign ministry said two Japanese men were on the passenger list -- Satoshi Nagata, who was in his 60s and Junichi Sato, in his 40s. Both men lived in Duesseldorf. "It is very likely that they were on board," a ministry official told AFP in Tokyo.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's foreign ministry confirmed that three of its citizens -- Erbol and Adil Imankulov and Aizhan Isengaliyeva -- were among the dead. The ministry said that it was trying to confirm whether a fourth passenger, Yelena Bles, held Kazakh citizenship following information from Germany authorities.

Others

Two Iranians and one Israeli were on the flight, according to Germanwings.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday that other countries with nationals on the Barcelona-Duesseldorf flight came from Morocco and Mexico.

The 'lucky ones'

A Swedish third division football team booked on the flight changed their booking at the last minute after deciding to change their route home.

Upon arrival at Barcelona airport, the Dalkurd FF team from Borlaenge, in central Sweden, decided the stopover in Duesseldorf would be too long and re-booked themselves onto three other flights flying via Zurich and Munich.

Sporting director Adil Kizil said: "We were supposed to be on that plane."


 

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It is confirmed that one of the pilots was locked out of the cabin a few minutes before the plane crashed. What are the chances that a Buddhist Extremist caused the plane to crash? :biggrin:
 

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Two possible scenarios from me.

1) Catastrophic failure of the fuselage, perhaps windscreen failure leading hypoxia incapacitating the remaining pilot.

2) Deliberate Pilot suicide.

I am not convinced of the terrorism argument as there was no mid air explosion.
 

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Two possible scenarios from me.

1) Catastrophic failure of the fuselage, perhaps windscreen failure leading hypoxia incapacitating the remaining pilot.

2) Deliberate Pilot suicide.

I am not convinced of the terrorism argument as there was no mid air explosion.

All doors can be accessed with a secret code unless someone inside deliberately disengages the access code. This leaves only pilot suicide as a viable option. I still think it's those evil Taoists who have been murdering, raping, enslaving for over 1000 years and claim they are peaceful. You can't trust an outright and outrageous liars such as those Taoists. :biggrin:
 

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Pilot of doomed Flight 4U 9525 jet was 'locked out of cockpit minutes before crash and tried to smash door down', black box recorder reveals

One of the pilots of the ill-fated Germanwings plane was locked out of the cockpit minutes before the aircraft plummeted into a remote region of the Alps, it was sensationally claimed last night.

Audio files taken from the black box voice recorder that was salvaged from the wreckage of the Airbus A320 reportedly indicate the pilot left the cockpit and could not re-enter.

The pilot is heard knocking lightly on the door of the cockpit before trying to 'smash the door down' when his colleague fails to answer, according to the New York Times.

The revelation is the first insight into what took place on the aircraft in the moments before the plane crashed - killing all 150 on board, including three Britons - on Tuesday.

An unnamed military investigator told the newspaper: ‘The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer.

‘And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer. You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.’

The claim will inevitably lead to speculation that the crash was deliberate – either caused by a suicidal pilot or as a result of terrorist activity.
 

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Death by 9-11, thanks to Islam.

Both MH370 and 4U9525 passengers death are due to 9-11.

All pilot door was strengthen after 9-11.
 

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Did one Germanwings pilot deliberately lock the other out of the cockpit? Flight recorder reveals colleague tried to smash door down - as it emerges access code can be disabled from INSIDE
The pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 may have deliberately locked his co-pilot and crew out of the cockpit minutes before it crashed into an Alpine mountainside killing 150 people, it was claimed today.

Audio files taken from the black box recorder suggested that one of the pilots was forced to try and smash down the door after being unable to enter the flight deck, according to the New York Times.

Experienced pilots today told MailOnline that under normal conditions crew have an emergency access code to enter the cockpit through the locked door.

They can only be stopped from using it if whoever is inside the cockpit manually – and intentionally - disables it.

The revelation will heighten fears that suicide or a terror attack was the cause of the disaster.

Locks on cockpit doors were introduced throughout the world's airlines in the aftermath of 9/11 to keep terrorists from taking the controls in a hijacking.
 

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The co-pilot of the Germanwings jet that crashed in the French Alps deliberately forced the plane into the descent that led to the disaster, the prosecutor said. He pressed a button that accelerated the Airbus A320’s descent when alone in the cockpit. “It was a voluntary action,” Robin said.
The co-pilot - named by the prosecutor as Andreas Lubitz, 28, a German citizen, was alone because the pilot had gone to the toilet. When he returned, the co-pilot refused to open the door. “The intention was to destroy this plane,” he said.
 

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Germanwings Airbus A320 crashes in French Alps with 150 people on board: latest
The Marseille prosecutor has said that the co-pilot of the Germanwings flight, Andreas Lubitz probably crashed the plane deliberately.
"The co-pilot is alone at the controls," prosecutor Brice Robin said, drawing on information gathered from the black box recorder. "He voluntarily refused to open the door of the cockpit to the pilot and voluntarily began the descent of the plane."
Earlier, it became clear that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit before the Germanwings plane descended and tried to get back in - to no avail, according to a senior source within the investigation team.
The pilot knocked on the door but there was no answer, according to the New York Times source after Flight 4U 9525 crashed on Tuesday near Digne-les-Bains in the French Alps. It was one of France's worst aviation disasters.
The source said: “The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door, and there is no answer. And then he hits the door stronger, and no answer. There is never an answer.”
Lufthansa, the German pilots' union and the Lufthansa flight training school in Bremen where the pilots trained are not making any comment or giving out names. They have, however, given information on the pilot and co-pilot and their experience.
German media have identified the pilot as Patrick S, a father to two children. Bild newspaper said he flew for over 10 years for Lufthansa and Germanwings and had completed more than 6,000 flight hours on the Airbus 320.
Europe1, a French website, has an interview one of his former colleagues
"He was one of the best," the report quotes a retired Lufthansa pilot identified only as Dieter.
"He was someone very reliable, he was one of the best pilots we had," he said. "I am 100 per cent sure they did the best they could. That's what I think because I knew him very well, he was one of the best, he had a lot of experience, he had more than 6,000 flight hours behind him. "
The First Officer was Andreas Lubitz, 28. He was "young". He was from Montabaur, in Rhineland-Palatinate. He had 630 flight hours. He joined Germanwings in September 2013 straight from the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen.
Lufthansa said both pilots were trained at the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen. The captain had over 6,000 flight hours' experience and joined Germanwings in May 2014. Previously he was a pilot with Lufthansa and Condor, a Lufthansa partner airline.
The first officer joined Germanwings in September 2013. He had about 630 flight hours. They were unable to confirm whether this was his first job as a professional pilot, or any previous experience.
 

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Why singaporean are surprised at pilot suicide, we started the whole thing.
silksair 185 1997 104 dead
egyptair 217 1999 217 dead
malaysian airlines 370 2014 239 dead
germanwings 9525 2015 150 dead

All by pilot suicide, it will not be the last plane. Be thankful they did not crash into a city.
 

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i think the french still remember ww 1 and ww 2. They stab the german in the stomach and twist the knife with this press conference.
They builded the plane and now put all the blame to the german. The sec black box not recovered yet, they already sentence the germans.
 
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Serious questions were being raised as to why the Germanwings pilot who deliberately crashed into the Alps was allowed to fly after showing signs that he was struggling with mental health issues.

Andreas Günter Lubitz had to stop his flight training because he was suffering from depression and 'burnout', it emerged today.

The 28-year-old locked his captain out of the cockpit before ploughing the Airbus A320 into the French Alps at more than 400mph, killing 150 people.

The chilling final moments of the doomed jet were revealed by French prosecutors who said Lubitz's sole aim was to 'destroy the plane'.

It has since emerged that the 28-year-old was forced to postpone his pilot training in 2008 because of mental health problems, with a friend saying he was 'in depression.'

The revelation will form a central part of the investigation and raises serious questions about why he was allowed to continue his training and whether enough was done to prevent the disaster.

Airline bosses confirmed Lubitz had taken several months off work and had to retrain to join the firm, but insisted he was '100 per cent fit to fly' after passing all medical tests.


It also emerged today that his parents only discovered that their son was a mass murderer just minutes before the bombshell press conference by prosecutors in Marseille.
 
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