Germanwings A320 crashed in France :(

Germanwings A320 crashed in France :(

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hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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yikes

Flown with them!

airbusA346

779 posts

152 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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According to reports on Twitter: 142 passengers and 6 crew onboard.

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Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Bugger frown

Turbodiesel1976

1,957 posts

169 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Oh no frown

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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How terrible.


essayer

9,009 posts

193 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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@flightradar24: Germanwings flight #4U9525 (registration D-AIPX) was lost from Flightradar24 at 6800 feet at 09.39 UTC time. http://t.co/vZaQMUlLaZ

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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shee-it

fly regularly with them in and out of DUS

Puggit

48,354 posts

247 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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kapiteinlangzaam said:
aircraft was D-AIPX. Ex Lufthansa A320
Germanwings is owned by LH

2013BRM

39,731 posts

283 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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fuuuuuuu, that's too close for comfort

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Very sad and doesn't look good.

Charlie1986

2,016 posts

134 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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is the A320 not normally a safe aircraft to Fly? have flown many times with Germanwings there our company's preferred choice

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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2013BRM said:
fuuuuuuu, that's too close for comfort
Do you live nearby?

buckline

377 posts

162 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Fingers crossed for some good news. Flown with them many times.

AlexIT

1,482 posts

137 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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I hope they achieved some kind of emergency landing, but knowing the area and seeing the above-posted link to FR24 showing a vertical speed of -3500 ft/min I fear the worst...

essayer

9,009 posts

193 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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From that FR24 track it Just seems to have descended all the way down in a straight course until it hit the higher ground frown

Edited by essayer on Tuesday 24th March 10:59

onyx39

11,109 posts

149 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Charlie1986 said:
is the A320 not normally a safe aircraft to Fly? have flown many times with Germanwings there our company's preferred choice
ALL aircraft are safe.
Accidents / tech failures still happen though.

RIP to all those aboard.

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Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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AlexIT said:
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I hope they achieved some kind of emergency landing, but knowing the area and seeing the above-posted link to FR24 showing a vertical speed of -3500 ft/min I fear the worst...
Indeed frown

Geography wouldn't have helped one bit if there was any chance of getting her down.

RobGT81

5,227 posts

185 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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nyxster

1,452 posts

170 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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onyx39 said:
ALL aircraft are safe.
Accidents / tech failures still happen though.

RIP to all those aboard.

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And sadly of course, you can't rule out terrorism/hijacking attempt.

Spain's borders are very porous to North Africa, and with Islamic Stare operational in Tunisia there is always a worrying chance.



Le TVR

3,092 posts

250 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Mayday call reported at 10:47, appears to have crashed on the massif de l'Estrop which does not give any hope of any sort of 'landing' frown