A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps.

[Ducado]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

It is time the airline industry tightened up on crew
There have been too many cases of Pilots suffering from mental health issues and drink problems but the airlines seem very poor at detecting them

We may have reached the stage where we have too many flights and not enough high quality pilots to operate them

Can you name me ten cases?

 

[johnny on the spot]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

It is time the airline industry tightened up on crew
There have been too many cases of Pilots suffering from mental health issues and drink problems but the airlines seem very poor at detecting them

We may have reached the stage where we have too many flights and not enough high quality pilots to operate them

I do remember a spate of drunken pilot cases a few years ago but I imagine things got tightened up PDQ after 9/11. Viz even ran a spoof classified advert for pilots to mask their drunkeness with garlic cloves etc.

One thing is for sure and that's that the pilot exams will be even more stringent and discriminatory from now on, with eligible airmen able to demand top dollar for their services.

 

[tonea2003]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

That's what the pilot was, another scumbag terrorist who killed 150 innocent lives. No need to portray him as anything else but a scumbag terrorist.

Edit: 149 innocent lives...

i know you are saying mate, but the true sense of the word he would have had to have a political purpose for his actions,
we don't know that yet

To me at least, who ever decides to kill large number of innocent people is a scumbag terrorist, regardless of his purpose.

He deliberately took the plane down and killed poor innocent people who had no choice to defend themselves. What a horrible death for the poor sods, watching the plane go down and being helpless. This is just as horrible as what the scumbags isis is doing.

I really despise when i hear in the media or elsewhere, he was depressed or mentally ill bollocks. When you plan such horrific thing and go and execute it, than you look just fine to me.

I'm with you mate he was sick to do what he did ,whatever reason he had

 

[kaz7]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

I think he was suicidal and when he was left on his own he took it,it probably wasn't his plan but more on impulse

 

[Blue Hefner]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

It is time the airline industry tightened up on crew
There have been too many cases of Pilots suffering from mental health issues and drink problems but the airlines seem very poor at detecting them

We may have reached the stage where we have too many flights and not enough high quality pilots to operate them

Can you name me ten cases?

I was just about to post the same
It is a very tragic but extremely rare thing to happen

 

[BlueBearBoots]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

I think he was suicidal and when he was left on his own he took it,it probably wasn't his plan but more on impulse

I thought that too Kaz, just thank goodness the pilot didn't leave the cockpit when they were over a heavily populated area!

 

[FantasyIreland]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

I think he was suicidal and when he was left on his own he took it,it probably wasn't his plan but more on impulse

Then the fucking sick prick should have declared his thoughts and thinking and removed himself from active duty.

 

[kaz7]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

I think he was suicidal and when he was left on his own he took it,it probably wasn't his plan but more on impulse

Then the fucking sick prick should have declared his thoughts and thinking and removed himself from active duty.

Depression doesn't work like that,suicidal is by definition not thinking rationally
I'm not making excuses for him,just trying to understand what happened

 

[manchester blue]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

For the benefit of the resident WUM. The investigation is carried out in strict isolation of both the manufacturer [Airbus] and the airline [Germanwings]. They have no say in what the back box says or the final report. Only a few senior investigators will listen to the recordings and analyse data. And they are not stakeholders.

I know this for no other reason than I need to know the truth so I read and listen to trusted media.

I, like worseleyweb, am a basket case when flying. I despise it. It consumes me from about a week before the flight and it's all I think about. I cannot concentrate on anything else and it ruins a holiday knowing I have to do it all again to get home. I paid for a flight from Munich last year, for the CL, and rented a car and drove home. I don't think airlines and pilots appreciate that a good proportion of its customers are so uncomfortable. Well my wife has actually said tonight that this is it for her, she isn't flying again. It's not just the pilots. Anyone on the ground could potentially bring down a plane. If you cannot trust the people who are meant to look after you who can you trust?

 

[cleavers]

Re: A320 Airbus Crashes In The Alps. BBC

It is time the airline industry tightened up on crew
There have been too many cases of Pilots suffering from mental health issues and drink problems but the airlines seem very poor at detecting them

We may have reached the stage where we have too many flights and not enough high quality pilots to operate them

Can you name me ten cases?

Funnily enough I could give you a couple from a few years ago, no idea if they're still flying, but they were at the time, and I know for fact they were unfit to fly. You'd also be surprised exactly who these guys were flying about too ;o)

Anyway off topic for this thread, as that was drinking issues, and no sign (so far) of that being the case here.