[News] Plane gone down in the French Alps?

[Leekbrookgull]

Tragic. R-i-P. Just watched someone from Germanwings speak and an open and genuine press conference,unlike MH370.

 

[Midfield Minton]

No, because the French Alps can be as high as 15,782ft

Thank you.i didn't really think that over

 

[Hillian1]

17 kids from the same school on board.

Shit that is.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Has the last 12 months been awful or are things just being reported more now?

I'd guess the latter.

Apparently 2014 was the safest year for aviation on record.

 

[BlockDpete]

I guess any European aircrash would be major news, the planes should be the newest and best maintained
RiP. Only flew back from the Canaries yesterday, though on a Boeing 737

 

[Leekbrookgull]

24 years old and apparently Lufthansa maintained.

 

[Midfield Minton]

Just seen on the news it had a maintenance check yesterday and was passed fit to fly,such a sad event,we may never know what the plan was like but a part of me hopes they didn't know what was coming.

 

[Driver8]

Just seen on the news it had a maintenance check yesterday and was passed fit to fly,

Seems a bit of a coincidence.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Seems a bit of a coincidence.

All kinds of scenarios come to mind.

 

[edna krabappel]

Where are our usual conspiracy theorists, anyway?

 

[Driver8]

Where are our usual conspiracy theorists, anyway?

Waiting for YouTube to tell them what really happened.

 

[Questions]

Extra Valium for my flight tomorrow now.

 

[vegster]

Extra Valium for my flight tomorrow now.

I don't know why you are not on them permanently, It would deal with all Fight or Flight problems.

 

[Questions]

I don't know why you are not on them permanently, It would deal with all Fight or Flight problems.

Don't forget my back spasms.

 

[Mackenzie]

Where are our usual conspiracy theorists, anyway?

Speculation, rather than conspiracy, available HERE.

General consensus from what I can make out, is pilot hypoxia due to rapid depressurisation.

RIP

 

[Barham's tash]

No, because the French Alps can be as high as 15,782ft

I spent six weeks in a small village north of Digne Les Bains (the nearest town to the crash site) and at that point they're about 2,000m high.

Relatively accessible but on small mountain roads with little to no space through some of the passes for emergency vehicles.

Even if there were survivors - which there aren't - they would def have struggled to reach them. Sad times.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Very sad indeed.
I'm watching the news coverage at Munich airport whilst waiting for my flight home with Lufthansa .......

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Just had a minutes silence.

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

It wouldn't happen......................

 

[dazzer6666]

I'd guess the latter.

Apparently 2014 was the safest year for aviation on record.

Just seen a stat (BBC website) that says there was one fatality per 2.38 million flights (ie passengers) in 2014, up from 1.91 million in 2013. As desperately awful as this is, it's still a pretty safe way to travel.