German Wings A320 crashed

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Developing story. A320 in the French alps. Reports saying all 148 dead.

 

[matthew]

Unreal...

 

[Runincolorado]

Very sad.

 

[dustoff17]

RIP..........

EDIT: From 38k to 6k.....http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0324/689326-germanwings-plane-crash/

 

[fholbert]

It crashed while enroute. I heard there was a distress call.

 

[pwa]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/europe/france-plane-crash/index.html

 

[Mike Wise]

R.I.P

 

[ChasenSFO]

Info I found from around the web, been digging into it a bit since I got to work this morning. For those who aren't familiar, German Wings is wholly owned by Lufthansa operating as their LCC. The plane that crashed is a former Lufthansa bird that is almost 25 years old. It was flight 9525 from Barcelona, Spain to Dusseldorf, Germany. Crashed in France.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/d-aipx/#5d42675

What the bloody hell?! Just fell clean out of the sky enroute...oh man...

Such a steady descent, I wonder if it descended down on autopilot or something with the crew incapacitated...

 

[Box hauler]

Flightaware says it was at 380 for only 2 minutes before falling out of the sky.

 

[SeanD]

RIP. I hate seeing this on the news feed first thing in the morning.

 

[GolfChuck]

I know I read something on here about pitot icing on the 320 and the autopilot taking over and putting the plane in a descent, with the only way to fix it being popping the breakers for two of the ADHARS or something. I think I read it in the Air Asia thread. Not too many icing reports at that altitude. What did the weather look like? Any 320 drivers with some insight?

 

[deadstick]

D-AIPX

http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Airbus/A320/147,D-AIPX-Germanwings.php

RIP

 

[ChasenSFO]

Steady descent, airspeed barely fluctuates...I'm really curious as to what the distress call was.

 

[deadstick]

Steady descent, airspeed barely fluctuates...I'm really curious as to what the distress call was.

The media is backing off that. One said ATC declared the emergency.

 

[ChasenSFO]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/445c1886078943bbbcd2160529fa03ed/latest-a320-has-good-safety-record

"The noise I heard was long - like 8 seconds - as if the plane was going more slowly than a military plane speed. There was another long noise about 30 seconds later."

 

[Cruise]

I know I read something on here about pitot icing on the 320 and the autopilot taking over and putting the plane in a descent, with the only way to fix it being popping the breakers for two of the ADHARS or something. I think I read it in the Air Asia thread. Not too many icing reports at that altitude. What did the weather look like? Any 320 drivers with some insight?

IF it starts acting wonky, turn off 2 ADIRS (no circuit breaker popping required) and force the plane into Alternate Law. Fly plane normally, land, change shorts, have adult beverage. Fly again another day.

 

[Boris Badenov]

No distress call, had the new AOA sensors. Or such is the current info. All sorts of absurd speculation available over at pprune, if you're in the mood for that sort of thing.

 

[JeppUpdater]

My AP news app on my iPad just flashed: "Germanwings CEO: plane went into 8-minute descent before crashing."

Eight minutes to go from 38,000 to ~7000 is still almost 4000 feet a minute...that seems like a hell of a descent for an Airbus. Like idle and boards out descent. But I'm no bus driver.

 

[mshunter]

My AP news app on my iPad just flashed: "Germanwings CEO: plane went into 8-minute descent before crashing."

Eight minutes to go from 38,000 to ~7000 is still almost 4000 feet a minute...that seems like a hell of a descent for an Airbus. Like idle and boards out descent. But I'm no bus driver.

Depends on the speed. You can get a CRJ to come down hill pretty quick if you keep the speed up. That goes for everything I've ever flown.

 

[derg]

The bus only speedily descends well when slow and dirty. It's weird.