Germanwings Flight Carrying at Least 148 Crashes in Southern France

[grumbler]

What about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain_awareness_and_warning_system ?

The weather was clear; had the pilots been conscious, they wouldn't have needed such a warning system to tell them they were about to hit a mountain.

[Berkut]

Yeah, the stuff the wiki article mentions is all around *warnings* and alerts. That would not help in our hypothetical of the plane under some kind of autopilot.


Under our hypothetical, the plane could have been warning them like crazy they were about to fly into a mountain.

[Razgovory]

I'm guessing we are all on the side of some sort of malfunction.  Depressurization is possible, but I suppose so is some type of fire or catastrophic loss of control.

[DGuller]

Yeah, the stuff the wiki article mentions is all around *warnings* and alerts. That would not help in our hypothetical of the plane under some kind of autopilot.


Under our hypothetical, the plane could have been warning them like crazy they were about to fly into a mountain.

Yeah, but theoretically, if you can generate a warning, you can generate an input for the survival auto-pilot.

[Zanza]

I wonder what the point of Hollande, Rajoy and Merkel flying there and looking sad is. This accident surely doesn't have a political component, so what's their role in this?

[mongers]

I wonder what the point of Hollande, Rajoy and Merkel flying there and looking sad is. This accident surely doesn't have a political component, so what's their role in this?

Any of them nearing election time, in a popularity slump or owe one of the others a favour?

[celedhring]

I once was an expert witness in a plagiarism trial regarding a children TV program. The plaintiff lost - on one hand it was painfully obvious they had ripped off her work, but on the other hand it's not like she created something so unmistakably unique as to merit protection by itself.

EDIT: Meh, wrong thread. Off to the Jeremy Clarkson one.

[Siege]

They missed the singularity.

[Liep]

So apparently one pilot was locked out of the cockpit just before the descent began. Whether the pilot left inside was incapacitated or doing it willfully is left unknown, but the black box has audio of the outside pilot trying to smash open the door.

I think this is gonna get weird.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?_r=0

[Caliga]

Oh dear.

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder what the point of Hollande, Rajoy and Merkel flying there and looking sad is. This accident surely doesn't have a political component, so what's their role in this?

Avoiding accusations of indifference.

[Valmy]

Bill Clinton's lips would have quivered in sympathy.

[lustindarkness]

So apparently one pilot was locked out of the cockpit just before the descent began. Whether the pilot left inside was incapacitated or doing it willfully is left unknown, but the black box has audio of the outside pilot trying to smash open the door.

I think this is gonna get weird.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?_r=0

I just read that, does not sound good. Whatever the reason, the passengers would have noticed this, makes for a long terrifying end for them.

[DGuller]

Oh, boy, that's certainly a twist.

[Caliga]

I just read that, does not sound good. Whatever the reason, the passengers would have noticed this, makes for a long terrifying end for them.