EgyptAir Airbus A320 from Paris to Cairo crashes with 66 passengers and crew on board

It has been confirmed by officials of Egyptian aviation that an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed. It was EgyptAir Flight 804 and it lost contact with ground radar while flying at 37,000 feet. the Airbus A320 had vanished 10 miles (16 kilometers) after it entered Egyptian airspace. A search has been started to locate the debris. The "possibility that the plane crashed has been confirmed," because it has not landed at any of the nearby airports.
French president Francois Hollande has spoken telephonically with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and assured to "closely cooperate to establish as soon as possible the circumstances" in which the EgyptAir flight disappeared.
This has been reported intimesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 19 May 2016.

Egyptian military aircraft were searching for the plane. It was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, and 10 crew members and its pilot had 6,000 flight hours. EgyptAir has said that those on board included 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, one Briton, two Iraqis, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Belgian, one Algerian and one Canadian.
It seems the pilot did not send a distress call, and the last contact was made 10 minutes before it disappeared from radar.
France continues to remain under a state of emergency after Islamic extremist attacks had killed 130 people in a spree of attacks in November - the ISIS had claimed responsibility for the attacks.


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Indications were there that something was amiss for Germanwings co-pilot

#germanwings #AndreasLubitz #AirbusA320 #flight9525 As new revelations occur about 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of Germanwings flight 9525 who crashed his Airbus A320 into a French mountainside to kill 150 passengers and crew members, it seems there were indications that something was amiss with him.
His girlfriend had dumped him a day before the crash, he was being treated for depression and was worried about losing his his job over eye problems. He was, undoubtedly, a troubled man whose world was coming apart. And, he had managed to keep these hidden from his employer, friends and colleagues.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 29 March 2015.

He had been examined by an eye specialist in the University Hospital Dusseldorf. Moreover, he had been seeing a neuropsychologist for depression and the doctor had given him a note excusing him from the work the day of the crash. However, he ignored the advice and reported to work.
Obviously, he had made up his mind and had decided to take his life along with the lives of another 150 who had no links with him.
This is a warning for all airlines because unless the men who man the aircraft are fir in all respects, they should not be given responsibilities of the lives of passengers. Any abnormal behavior must be investigated and, if necessary, such individuals must be segregated and removed from the direct line of control.

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Germanwings Airbus A320 crashes in French Alps, all 150 on board killed

#germanwings #4U9525 #lufthansa #AirbusA320 #mayday The crash of an Airbus A320 Flight 4U9525 operated by the budget carrier of Germany's Lufthansa, Germanwings, has crashed in a remote area of the French Alps and all 150 on board including passengers and crew. This is believed to be the worst aviation disaster on French soil in decades.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 25 March 2015.

The aircraft was carrying 144 passengers, most of them were Spanish and German -- including two babies -- and six crew. They were on their way from Barcelona to the western German city of Duesseldorf when it crashed. It is understood from German authorities that there were 16 German teenagers on a school trip on the doomed plane.
There was no May Day message from the aircraft and the authorities have managed to recover a black box from the crash site. Rescue efforts are seriously hampered due to the rough mountainous terrain.
As per the budget airline Germanwings, the Airbus had plunged for eight minutes but French aviation officials informed that there was no distress call made from the aircraft before it crashed near the ski resort of Barcelonnette.
Weather has been ruled out as a probable reason for the crash because the weather conditions were “calm" at the time.
German flag carrier Lufthansa has indicated that it was working on the assumption the crash of the 24-year-old Airbus A320 aircraft was an "accident".

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Recovery of tail portion of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 hampered by huge waves

#AirAsia #AirbusA320 #QZ8501 #flightdatarecorder The tail portion of the AirAsia Boeing Airbus A320 Flight QZ8501 has been located and divers are struggling against strong currents and waves as they attempted to hoist the wreckage out of the Java Sea two weeks ago after it went down. All 162 people on board have been killed.
It seems inflatable bags were being attached to the rear of the aircraft, and then a crane will be used to lift it from a depth of about 100 feet. However, the tail part is getting heavier due to strong currents and piles of sand and mud and, as Suryadi B. Supriyadi, the National Search and Rescue Agency's operational director, has indicated many more inflatable bags would be required.
Intermittent underwater ping-like sounds have been picked up about a kilometer (half mile) from where the tail was located. It could not be confirmed as to whether the pings were from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the aircraft that are usually located in the rear portion of the Airbus A320.
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