German Wings.....If true...the co-pilot brought it down?

[busterbrown]

Very Similar event happened in 1999.. Wow!!! Just freaking crazy.. and Frightening..

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/16/duncancampbell

[benld74]

1. From what I'm hearing, Europe doesnt follow the same

procedures as US flights. Namely, US doesn't allow one person alone in cockpit. I could have heard that wrong though,,,,,

That and the ridiculous amount of training the copilot had to even assume duties is beyond me, something like 650 hours??

[2naSalit]

4. The rule or "protocol" regarding

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more than one person mandated to be in cockpit is an international law, not just for the US. SO that was violated, many circumstances are surely at play and it may never be known as to how there wasn't a second person in the cockpit at that time, unless there was and they were incapacitated...

It is what it is, sad but true. I find it interesting that we don't know who was on that plane and whether there were any major players in some negotiations or whatever and we haven't heard much, if anything, about that other than the students and faculty of a school. There were about 100 other victims, wonder who there were and if that had any role to play in the event.

ETA: I made the above statement after hearing it from a single source whom I had, at the time, deemed probably credible. I have learned since that this "two person in the cockpit at all times" is NOT International law or protocol. Therefore, I stand corrected. It appears that most other countries will make this requirement universal now.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Similar thing happened in 1999

The co-pilot of EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed off New England in 1999, killing 217 people, deliberately crashed the plane as an act of revenge, according to a source close to the investigation.

Gamil el-Batouty had earlier been reprimanded for sexual misconduct and the executive who told him he would not be allowed to fly US routes again was on board the plane.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/16/duncancampbell

[cwydro]

3. I've suspected that the disappearance of the Malaysian plane

was the same type thing.

Very scary.

[2naSalit]

5. It does make one wonder. n/t