Airbus A320 Crashes in Alps

RIP to those who lost their lives. My thoughts are with their families.

It strikes me as a spooky coincidence that this plane came down the very day after it received maintenance work (according to the press).

I had to lament the BBC's reporting of this last night though. It was quoting that 45 Spanish passengers were on board - their evidence for this is that there were 45 people with, and I quote "Spanish sounding names". That is pretty lame reporting by anyones standard!

Hopefully, in time, the reasons for this incident will be uncovered and used to help make future flights more safe.
 
The BBC reporting this morning was pretty lame too.

"The police cars are coming up the road with blue sirens on."
"
There is a helicopter going overhead, I can see a red light and a white one.................The police came out of the helicopter, marching............"

If there is nothing useful to report, report nothing.
 
nkata said:
The BBC reporting this morning was pretty lame too.

"The police cars are coming up the road with blue sirens on."
"
There is a helicopter going overhead, I can see a red light and a white one.................The police came out of the helicopter, marching............"

If there is nothing useful to report, report nothing.
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The joys of 24 hour news...
 
They hope to have some information by the end of today from the cockpit voice recorder.

Such a horrible accident, I personally think it's a pressurisation issue and i hope the passengers and crew were unconscious so they didn't experience what happened :(
 
BuffetSlayer said:
It strikes me as a spooky coincidence that this plane came down the very day after it received maintenance work (according to the press).
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It completed its flight on the way to Barcelona without issue. If they 'broke' something during maintenance, you'd assume the issue would be with the departure flight, not the return.
 
I read the transcript of the Air France flight from Brazil, that was very chilling.

Any more news on the black boxes?
 
Me and the mrs were flying back from Amsterdam last night at 20:00

The airport had bloody CNN on, this story was on repeat constantly... Not really what you need, especially as my GF is a nervous flyer.

Still, we were fine so I'm defiantly not complaining.
 
They've ruled out decompression it seems. Looks like it might have been controlled flight into terrain. Will be interesting to see what they can piece together.
 
The decent was similar to that of a landing, this indicates a flight computer malfunction. I rekon a fire could have caused this crash knocking out the electrics and preventing them from communicating.
 
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