Germanwings Crash

[The Moose]

Not ideal.

Watching the playback on Flight Radar is a bit odd.

Thoughts to all those involved as always...

(ETA: I know there's already a thread in News section - I've found this section tends to come out with more interesting insights)

Edited by The Moose on Tuesday 24th March 11:37

[The Moose]

hidetheelephants said:

JRM said:

Although looking at the flight data, the decent from 38000 ft was relatively gradual, i.e. happened over a period of 10 minutes, at least down to about 7000ft or so, which isn't much quicker than a normal decent and it's airspeed slowed during the decent, but maintained relatively high speed.

It went down over the alps, so 7000' could quite easily be ground level.

If you look at the height of that area, 6,000-7,000 is about right for ground level. It did seem to slow, but not that much.

For those on board, if they were conscious, at least it would have been quick...

[The Moose]

fatboy69 said:

Not sure that I want to watch the playback on Flight Radar however as i didn't know that it could be done how do you watch playback?

Odd though that some reports say that a mayday was issued & some say it wasn't. I know that the pilots would have been struggling to do whatever they could to save the plane however surely a mayday would have called wouldn't it?

Linky

To be honest, it's just a plane icon moving on a map with air speed/altitude. Obviously when you consider the realities of what's going on as you play it back, it's pretty horrific.