* BREAKING - Germanwings pilot was locked out of the cockpit

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” the investigator said. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.” He said, “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”

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

If this story is truly accurate, I can only think of a couple reasons for this. The pilot inside suddenly died (heart attack, embolism, stroke) or became incapacitated or intentionally ran that plane into the mountains.

 

If the co-pilot turns out to be of the Islamic faith then the fecal matter will definitely have hit the fan.

 

Ya, I heard it was a newer AirBus, probably had fortified cabin door too.

 

Yep, that's the downside of preferring to rely exclusively on security features. Sometimes they are one's worst enemy in an emergency situation.

 

Im VERY interested in the religious beliefs of the pilot inside the cockpit.

 

Hmmmmm, what might the odds be of a pilot having a heart attack at the exact moment the other pilot is out of the cockpit? Not saying it can't happen, but with events in the world being what they are, my thoughts lie elsewhere.

 

My thoughts exactly. However this story is inconsistent from one I heard with a "person on the inside" who is a friend. Too soon to tell. But IF the story is true, I agree with both of your possibilities. Airbusses are piloted with a side stick, if the pilot inside did die (or pass out or whatever) with his hand on the stick, his body slumping over could have caused the descent.

 

It's the massive 'elephant on steroids' in the room right now in regards to this tragedy. If he does turn out to be Islamic then the Germans are going to rediscover how to be ANGRY.

 

If that's the case, they're going to delay breaking the news as long as possible. Probably by next week we'll hear about it.

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Some will. 40% will go into damage control mode in defense of their favorite non-white minority group, the others will be somewhere in between.

Something like this would have to happen on a weekly basis before they wake up. 50+ years of Marxism ravaging through the West's immune system like the AIDS virus will take require a lot to wake it back up.

 

I don't think so. For the fecal matter to fly, those making it fly will be subject to cries of racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, and all that other crap that doesn't make it worth it. Only on this board and others like it will you see speculation of a guy crashing a plane in order to cash in on his 70+ virgins.

 

Or mass murder suicide

 

Yes, granted; that does generally describe the way that these things go in regards to the United States; but in regards to Germany that's already been hit hard in its own way by the downside of multiculturalism? I dunno. The thing about a small population (half of which was in relatively recent terms traumatized by living under communist rule) is that when a flash point is reached one realizes it only when the flames are crisping one's eyebrows.

 

It's sort of out of their hands so far as breaking the news goes as so many other nations have lost citizens in this, and if it does turn out that the co-pilot alone in the cabin was Islamic then . . . oh my! Or not. We shall have to wait and see. It always amazes me how often citizens can be distracted by a government or its media yelling, "Squirrel!"

 

I wonder if "ALLAH AKBAR!" was being screeched when the plane took a nose dive?

 

I hear ya, but in the last 15-20 years whenever something like this happens the first people we think of are those "squirrels" and most of the time we're right. And those squirrels don't come first into our minds just because...they earned it.

 

Would anyone really be surprised? No of course not and although they would never admit it, that includes all those leftwingers who would kneejerk deny the likelihood and then go on the attack accusing everyone in site of being bigots or religiously intolerant.

It's obvious that in today's world-- when there is a major anomaly like the pilot being unable to re-enter the cabin -- to speculate that this was the result of an act of Islamic terrorism. Common sense. If it turns out to be something totally different then fine. But the course of logic in a case like this is to suspect the worst AND the obvious.

 

Members of the left will spend much more emotional energy in their hopes that this doesn't end up being an Islamic terror attack than they did about the actual plane crash and loss of life.

 

Yes, because essentially most of them really don't care about the loss of life. They make a huge deal out of feeeeeeeeling all the damn time about everything under the sun but when you actually stop to examine it those feeeeeeeeeelings usually turn out to be coldly ideological in nature. I give a damn about the dead and why they died, and if it turns out to be yet another act of Islamic terrorism then I am going to be angry about that as well.

 

Terrible tragedy , I just hope nobody had to suffer at the end.

 

Probably there was relatively little time for most of the passengers to be really terrified. Of a certainty there was no lingering pain from the impact. It was over for everyone in a heartbeat. As always it's the survivors who are going to live and relive this for the remainder of their lives and thus long, LONG after the rest of the world has become engaged in other issues. That's the greatest tragedy in that many of the surviving family members and even just friends will never get over such a horror.

 

Right........ and they never found the Malaysia airliner. I still think it's sitting in a hangar in some craphole ME country, turning it into a missile........

 

Yes this is true. I can't even imagine what the parents of the students that were on board. Just shows us we need to be a little more thankful for each day because we can be gone without even knowing.

 

OR........don't fly on a plane with a Muslim pilot or Muslim passengers.

 

As citizens of the United States we are so blessed by being generally passed by in regards to such tragedies by virtue of our still relatively low population numbers and the fact that outside of major cities we are relatively widely scattered. I think that this coupled with our entertainment industry tends to make it a bit difficult sometimes for us to be able to really connect with such surviving victims. I'll admit that I have to work at it, but also I will add that once I do connect I always get angry on their behalf . . . and I am NEVER in the mood to forgive the person or people who turned their lives into hell on Earth. But then again . . . I am not a leftwinger.

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It's a mystery that now doesn't seem likely to be solved any time soon; which -- as you just pointed out -- is in and of itself . . . a mystery.

 

Yes, and probably with a strong American accent too.