Germanwings A320 crashed in France :(

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Oakey said:

Timmy40 said:

Former colleague of mine spend about 7 years as a lifeboat man, pulled lots of drowned bodies from the sea, says what he will never forget was the look of absolute terror on their faces. So I think it's fair to say it's probably not a 'tranquil' end....

I nearly drowned when I was 9. It was anything but a tranquil experience.

As part of 'adventure training' every Wednesday afternoon at school, we had to do Canoe stuff for a few weeks which I absolutely hated beyond belief.

The two teachers who taught adventure training at school were proper grizzly, bearded outdoor type chaps and I always remember one of them telling us that he was Canoeing down some rapids one day when he capsized and got his helmet caught in between 2 submerged rocks whilst underwater.

He then went on about how he could feel himself drowning as he tried to free himself and that it was a really peaceful experience. He commented how he would be happy to drown if he ever needed to commit suicide.

How cheerful.

I'm not sure I buy it though. Waterboarding doesn't look that peaceful to me.

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Dr Jekyll said:

There's an interesting observation made in the Spectator magazine that most of the 'usual' ways for airliners to crash have been virtually eliminated so we can expect future crashes to be pretty weird.

Its a fair point.

I believe many, many weaknesses, faults and flaws have been ironed out of both aircrafts and airports over the last 50 years or so of commercial jet travel, leaving mostly human error and weird stuff.

A look at the last few large commercial aircraft 'incidents'

Germanwings 9525 - Suicide
Transasia 235 - Pilot error
Airasia 8501 - Pilot error
Malaysia 17 - Shot Down
Malaysia 370 - Missing
Ethiopia 702 - hijacked

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Legend83 said:

Actions of a desperate man still in denial that his son was a murdering b4stard?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39379724

Depression leading to murder suicide, not really the actions of a sane individual. Pretty difficult for anyone to come to terms with, especially his father.

I expect most posters would be looking for other explanations if they were the pilots father also,

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Legend83 said:

Well this was the official conclusion from the French aviation authority:

"3.2 Causes
The collision with the ground was due to the deliberate and planned action of the
co-pilot who decided to commit suicide while alone in the cockpit. The process for
medical certification of pilots, in particular self-reporting in case of decrease in medical
fitness between two periodic medical evaluations, did not succeed in preventing
the co-pilot, who was experiencing mental disorder with psychotic symptoms, from
exercising the privilege of his licence"

That's the root cause of the crash. It's a bit simplistic for people on the internet to glibly call him a murdering bd etc.

Perhaps that's just easier to understand for some,