From the BBC website:
'The Germanwings co-pilot thought to have deliberately crashed his Airbus in the French Alps, killing 150 people, predicted "one day everyone will know my name", his ex-girlfriend says.
In an interview with Germany's Bild newspaper, she recalled a comment Andreas Lubitz...
Behave. The technology already exists, and has done for some time. Give every airline n years to have it implemented or be grounded, and hey presto, it'll be done. Simples.
In this day and age the same flight recorder info should be relayed directly to a central server on the ground shirley, with the flight recorder box a secondary backup. If nothing else, would give an early warning of any possible anomalies that could then be monitored and/or acted on from the...