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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AirAsia flight QZ8501 – one black box recovered, second box located

#AirAsia #QZ8501 #BoeingAirbus #flightdatarecorder The latest news about AirAsia flight QZ8501 is that sixteen days after the Boeing Airbus-A320 crashed in the Java Sea, Indonesian Navy divers have successfully retrieved one of the black boxes of the crashed plane.
The second black box or cockpit voice recorder has also been located inside the wreckage and efforts are on to retrieve this also – it is still stuck in the plane debris.
These orange colored flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder would come as a major breakthrough in the multinational search in which the teams had to, at times, weather the rough seas and zero visibility – the orange colored black box is believed to be holding vital clues about the last moments before the plane's crash.
The flight had 162 people on board and, so far, only 48 bodies have been recovered, at least two of them still strapped to seat belts. Majority of passengers we Indonesians. The ill-fated Flight QZ8501 had gone off the radars just after 42 minutes after taking off of taking off and was on a trip to Singapore from Surabaya.
The pilot of the Airbus had made a request to climb to 38,000 feet to avoid stormy clouds but permission was not granted because there was another plane in that route.

Startling new facts emerge on AirAsia Flight QZ8501 – it did not have permission to fly

#AirAsia #FlightQZ8501 #BoeingA320200 #JavaSea It has now been revealed that AirAsia did not have permission to operate on the Surabaya and Singapore route on Sundays – hence, Flight QZ8501 was an unauthorized one and could be banned from offering flights in Indonesia. The Flight QZ8501 had crashed into the Java Sea.
Moreover, AirAsia also faces allegations that the pilot of the Boeing Airbus A320-200 did not ask for a weather report from meteorologists before take-off, amid concerns that the Airbus A320 went down in stormy conditions. It is reported that Indonesia's transport ministry has suspended all AirAsia flights between Surabaya and Singapore.
To make matters worse, the other schedules of this budget airline are also under investigation, as it was not permitted to make this journey on Sundays. Underwater remote operating vehicles have tried to capture images of the debris that includes four large items.
There are no survivors of the ill-fated Flight QZ8501, which had 162 people on board and, the crucial black boxes are yet to be located – data captured in these boxes could reveal what happened in the last few minutes of the plane.
The pilot of the Boeing had 6,100 flying hours on the A320 and had asked for permission to ascend to 38,000ft before contact was lost with air traffic control. Radar data tends to indicate that the plane had made an "unbelievably" steep climb before it crashed, probably due to stalling.

AirAsia flight QZ8501 has met a watery grave

#AirAsia #QZ8501 #Airbus320200 #Borneo The ill-fated flight QZ8501 Airbus 320-200 of AirAsia has crashed in the Java Sea and bodies of some passengers have been sighted and recovered by rescue teams. It is finally known that the flight has crashed.
The Black Box of the aircraft has to, now, be retrieved to know the possible reasons of the crash. Till then, it can only be conjectures. It has been established that the pilot of the Boeing wanted to climb to a higher altitude due to the bad weather but did not get the permission in time.
It seems there was no distress signal from the plane. The pilot wanted to avoid the bad weather because of heavy air traffic and take up the aircraft to a safer altitude but his speed was low – that way, he could have encountered a stall situation and the aircraft crashed.
The bodies have been reported by Lieutenant Airman Tri Wobowo who was co-pilot of one of the Hercules aircraft that was on a search and rescue mission. He had seen eight bodies – some of them were holding hands - the location was off the coast of Borneo. Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency chief has confirmed about the discoveries - one of the bodies was that of a flight attendant.