Germanwings Airbus crash 24 March #1

[Dr. Know?]

@MailOnline: 16 German schoolchildren feared dead on #Germanwings flight http://dailym.ai/1bqibJp

 

[cuffem]

Now mnbc is saying plane desintegrated,that is opposite from large debris field.MNBC does not know what is going on they just said no to the 5 mile debris,could be 5 acres.

 

[Dr. Know?]

Susan Ormiston ‏@OrmistonOnline · 5m5 minutes ago
French Prime Minister says helicopter has landed in #germanwings crash site found debris size of car, confirming no survivors #cbc

https://twitter.com/OrmistonOnline/status/580378621182902272

 

[Dr. Know?]

Live updates

http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News

(my apologies if this is a repeat)

and another

Mar 24, 2015, 02:52 PM GMT
4m

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says helicopter has landed near site of Germanwings crash, confirms police reports of no survivors located - @AP

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2015/03/24/french-prime-minister-manuel-valls-says-helicopter/

 

[cuffem]

From Dr. Know's link a witness heard noises from plane before crash,so I would assume there was a mechanical and plane did not explode in air but desintegrated on impact.

 

[Dr. Know?]

Paris (AFP) - 14:53 GMT - GERMANWINGS SAYS JET UNDERWENT THOROUGH CHECK IN SUMMER 2013

http://news.yahoo.com/france-air-crash-live-report-110242448.html

Also reading that no distress signal came from the plane from many tweets.

 

[Dr. Know?]

So sad.

The Independent ‏@Independent · 6m6 minutes ago
French MP: 'Appalling scenes in these mountains. There is nothing left but debris and bodies.'
#Germanwings #4U9525
http://ind.pn/1NarJ6V

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/580385195930554368

 

[FranP]

ttp://fyre.it/ORWDh2.4

Sky news reports:

President of a local French council, Gilbert Sauvan, says debris is spread over 100-200 meters (110-220 yards).

 

[cuffem]

I hope the media gives the parents of the 16 teenagers and families of other passengers privacy,their pain must be unbearable and I do not want to watch.

 

[Dr. Know?]

AirLive.net ‏@airlivenet · 10m10 minutes ago
BREAKING Picture of debris found at crash-side (via Le Dauphine Libere) #Germanwings #4U9525 http://www.airlive.net/2015/03/breaking-crash-of-a320-in-south-of.html …

https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/580385467142651904

 

[cuffem]

AirLive.net ‏@airlivenet · 10m10 minutes ago
BREAKING Picture of debris found at crash-side (via Le Dauphine Libere) #Germanwings #4U9525 http://www.airlive.net/2015/03/breaking-crash-of-a320-in-south-of.html …

https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/580385467142651904

How could there be bodies as reported?

 

[FranP]

How could there be bodies as reported?

BBC news is reporting that a lot of fake pictures purporting to be of the crash and crash scene are already circulating on the web/social media.

 

[Dr. Know?]

https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/580386781499133952

Crash site.

 

[Dr. Know?]

UPDATE VIDEO of French Special rescue units site #Germanwings flight #4U9525

http://www.airlive.net/2015/03/upda...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Dr. Know?]

Live video news.

FRANCE 24 live news stream: France Plane Crash latest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFwedk4dBCc#t=54

 

[FranP]

http://fyre.it/SCkQ0n.4

First images of the crash site, which looks very like the terrain in the image that Dr. Know? posted

 

[Dr. Know?]

AirLive.net ‏@airlivenet · 5m5 minutes ago
BREAKING PHOTO Showing windows part of #Germanwings #4U9525 http://www.airlive.net/2015/03/breaking-crash-of-a320-in-south-of.html …

 

[JanetElaine]

If you go here: http://casperflights.com/ and select the Bordeaux airport, then set the time to around 10:30am local time (GMT+1) you can pick up the flight.

It may show up as GWI18G or Unknown. Hover over it and you can see the rapid descent, but also how far it still travels in that time. The speed never changes, in fact it appears to speed up for a while. There are large(er) airports around that they could have turned to in case of an emergency, like Nice, Marseille, possibly more.

That tells me the plane was either flown by someone who did not want to do so, or was incapable of doing so. The amount of time and distance the plane kept flying after it started its rapid descent does not indicate to me that it disintegrated in the air. Maybe a cabin pressure problem that left everyone unconscious? Or... malicious intent. IMO MOO

 

[Zuri]

This is so heartbreaking. Prayers to all the families of the victims of this crash.

I am kinda shocked to the lack of snow, but glad at the same time for the rescuers. Does anyone know the elevation of this crash site? Feet above sea level?

 

[jslk]

http://www.channel4.com/news/airbus-a320-plane-crash-france-alps-germanwings-passengers

"The aircraft did not itself make a distress call but it was the combination of the loss of radio contact and the aircraft's descent which led the controller to implement the distress phase," a spokesman for the DGAC authority said.

At least it seems like air traffic control noticed immediately something was terribly wrong in this case.