...10:30:00 Germanwings flight 4U9525,(click here) call sign "Germanwings One Eight Golf", confirmed instructions from French air traffic control
10:31:02 Flight 4U9525 leaves its assigned cruising altitude without approval and begins to descend. Radar observes an average descent rate of approximately 17.8 metres per second (3,500 feet per minute). Attempts by French air traffic control to contact the flight on the assigned radio frequency radio link are not answered
10:35:08 Attempts to contact the flight on the international distress frequency are also unsuccessful
10:36:00 French air traffic control declares an international normalized emergency according to international norms. French search and rescue services are informed. Flight 4U9525 passes through an altitude of around 7600m (25,000 feet).
10:36:47 French air traffic control tries one last time to contact Flight 4U9525 German Wings on the international distress frequency. There is no response
10:40:00 Flight 4U9525 disappears from radar. The last known altitude was about 1890m (6,200 feet)...
Ten minutes is a long time. If there were conscience pilots they could have responded and corrected the course of the airline. When is the seat belt sign taken off after the flight stabilizes at cruising altitude? I don't know if I ever paid that much attention to it.
One minute after contact the jet leaves it's course without a word otherwise. It's a strange one.
24 March 2015
10:31:02 Flight 4U9525 leaves its assigned cruising altitude without approval and begins to descend. Radar observes an average descent rate of approximately 17.8 metres per second (3,500 feet per minute). Attempts by French air traffic control to contact the flight on the assigned radio frequency radio link are not answered
10:35:08 Attempts to contact the flight on the international distress frequency are also unsuccessful
10:36:00 French air traffic control declares an international normalized emergency according to international norms. French search and rescue services are informed. Flight 4U9525 passes through an altitude of around 7600m (25,000 feet).
10:36:47 French air traffic control tries one last time to contact Flight 4U9525 German Wings on the international distress frequency. There is no response
10:40:00 Flight 4U9525 disappears from radar. The last known altitude was about 1890m (6,200 feet)...
Ten minutes is a long time. If there were conscience pilots they could have responded and corrected the course of the airline. When is the seat belt sign taken off after the flight stabilizes at cruising altitude? I don't know if I ever paid that much attention to it.
One minute after contact the jet leaves it's course without a word otherwise. It's a strange one.
24 March 2015
...Several Germanwings flights (click here) were cancelled on Tuesday after their crews refused to fly, as
it emerged that the aircraft which crashed in the French Alps had been
grounded for an hour for repairs the day before the accident.
Pilots and cabin crew refused to fly over concerns the crash may have
been linked to a repair to the nose-wheel landing doors on Monday,
according to an unconfirmed report in Spiegel magazine....
