I had fairly well concluded that the most likely cause was a fire disrupting the electrical and control systems, when CNN now say the sharp left turn was pre-programmed 12 minutes before sign off from Malaysian Air Traffic control, which was followed fairly quickly by that left turn.
CNN claim to have this from an US official, from data sent back before the reporting systems went off. It is hard to know what to make of it: obviously there are large economic interests that much prefer blame to lie with the pilots rather than the aircraft. But if it is true then the move was not a response to an emergency. (CNN went on to say the pilot could have programmed in the course change as a contingency in case of an emergency. That made no sense to me at all – does it to anyone else?)
I still find it extremely unlikely that the plane landed or crashed on land I cannot believe it could evade military detection as it flew over a highly militarized region. Somewhere there is debris on the ocean. There have been previous pilot suicides that took the plane with them; but the long detour first seems very strange and I do not believe is precedented. However if the CNN information on pre-programming is correct, and given it was the co-pilot who signed off to air traffic control, it is hard to look beyond the pilots as those responsible for whatever did happen. In fact, on consideration, the most improbable thing is that information CNN are reporting from the US official.
http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_d%27instruction_et_d%27entra%C3%AEnement_au_combat_en_montagne
What’s in Barcelonette, FYI.
http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/9128-gp-taranis-satellite-to-study-lightning.php
Taranis the weaponized UAV by BAE was tested in Australia last year.
It’s a dark matter.
http://m.adelaidenow.com.au/news/blast-from-the-past/story-e6frebt3-1225754460377
Also the site of Taranis UAV testing in 2014.
http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/10969-taranis.php
CNES is the primary contractor for Taranis, the satellite. CNET has a base in Guyana. That is where SSTL launches its satellites, and where the FFL also operates.
Why would the satellite have the same name as the UAV?
Saad al-Hilli worked designing the galley for the Airbus 320A.
There is little trace of anything when it comes to dark matters.
Yes, there was a FRENCH fighter jet next to the German jetliner
It is not likely to be pilot error,
so likely to be terror or catastophic aircraft failure
But what about the ACARS messages? Where is James?
I knew the French were up to something.
http://rt.com/news/243525-airbus-crash-southern-france/
Me camping, toujours.
Witnesses have described hearing an explosion ‘like the sound of dynamite’ then seeing fighter jets fly past, suggesting the passenger plane had been under military escort.
Daily Mail
Now why would The Daily Mail
suggest fighter jets were in the air.
Is the only reason to be buzzing the airbus suspected terror?
http://m.thelocal.fr/20150324/airbus-a320-crashes-in-the-southern-french-alps
A thud followed by several fighter jets. Timing becomes critical. How long would it take for several fighter jets to become airborn? The locks are familiar with the fighter jets, which they say practice drills regularly over their town. Coincidence that they just happened to be there?
France’s leading air traffic controller union SNCTA has called off a strike planned from Wednesday to Friday.
“We are suspending our planned strike as a result of the emotions created in the control rooms by the crash, particularly in Aix-en-Provence,” the union’s spokesman Roger Rousseau told AFP.
If the French thought the plane had been hijacked and was going to crash on a nuclear power station,
would they shoot it down?
Orange-Caritat air base to Pierrelatte and the Tricastin nuclear plant: did the intended flight path of the downed Germanwings go over this area?
Answer to MN: of course!
Question is, if a drill was in motion and an airliner was having equipment failure that set it off-course and precluded communication, would they shoot it down?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricastin_Nuclear_Power_Plant
AREVA and EDF run Tricastin. A nuclear weapons research facility is also located at the site.
Lufthansa calls the crash ‘an accident’. That’s being a little short.
What do the FRENCH have to say. What was the mirage doing there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istres-Le_Tub%C3%A9_Air_Base
Maybe this is the source of your Mirage, NotF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodif
Yes Uranium Enrichment Plant,
even if no longer producing would be a target.
This is possibly the most major nuclear centre in all of Europe.
Was the aircraft closely following its pre-planned course
or was it off?
White House says no suspicion of terrorism
http://www.euronews.com/2015/03/24/germanwings-press-conference-mystery-what-wasn-t-he-supposed-to-say/
A journalist, speaking with a Spanish accent, asked during a press conference: “Germanwings this morning explained something about this flight, what do you think of that?”
It’s not clear to what she was referring but the Lufthansa representative seemed to understand.
Heike Birlenbach, Lufthansa vice-president for Europe initially blocked the question with a fairly standard ‘No Comment’ but then turned to her advisors and added in German.
“That was what he was not supposed to say.”
She seemed unware that the microphone was picking up her aside.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_2000N/2000D
This is the purpose of Mirage. Mirage is not search and rescue. They were on a mission, but not likely the one told to the press.
Where would Germanwings have ended up if it hadn’t crashed where it did? What was its actual trajectory at the time of the accident?
The interior ministry confirmed on Wednesday it was the cockpit voice recorder and had been damaged in the crash, although it could still provide information.
Finding the second box – the flight data recorder – will be a key aim of Wednesday’s search operation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32046250
THE FRENCH
seem to be keeping quiet about why military jets were adjacent to the Airbus at the time of the crash?
breaking
Jet with failed engine to make emergency landing in St Petersburg, 79 onboard
Russia Today – source
It never, never stops!
Thank you very much, conspiracy maniacs will prevail. And the FRENCH are guilty!
This is an odd thing to say: “There is no hard evidence that the crash was intentionally brought about by third parties.”
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/pix-germanwings-a320-crash-investigators-begin-examining-black-box/20150325.htm
How could fighter jets have been scrambled in the time between the air traffic controllers declaring an emergency and the crash? We are hearing that the pilots did not notify of an emergency (or did they?). How did the fighter jets get to the scene on time, unless they were already in the air doing a drill when the Germanwings passed into a restricted air space? Precious minutes would have been lost getting planes into the air and travelling to the location of the crash. Eye witnesses indicated that they heard a thud, and saw fighter jets, almost simultaneously. Flights are restricted from airspace used for such drills when drills are taking place. Can we assume that they are allowed to use this airspace when no drills are happening? Was a drill taking place at the time of the Germanwings crash? What role did the military fighter jets play in this tragedy?
Why would fighter jets be used for search and rescue communications, as we were told yesterday? This is not the purpose of the Mirage, which has a role in anti-nuclear intervention. Search and rescue helicopters are designed for such a use, as they are able to get closer to the ground in steep terrain. Nothing makes sense about using fighter jets for SAR. No, the fighter jets were there for one purpose: to intervene in the situation which eventually led to the Germanwings crash. Was their role more active than passive?
So was the crash brought about unintentionally by third parties?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/24/what-happened-to-germanwings-flight-4u-9525
“In at least one previous incident, a similar Airbus plane suffered a total electrical failure, leaving pilots briefly without any flight or navigation displays, or radio contact. A British Airways A319 – from the same family of planes, and also manufactured in 2001 – lost power as it climbed out of Heathrow in 2005, leaving the plane’s autopilot disconnected as well as the auto-thrust. The pilot was able to maintain control and the systems were restored after 90 seconds but investigators believe the incident could have been extremely serious.
Germanwings chief pilot Kenan Scheib said the plane’s computer systems had been recently upgraded: “There’s no reason why a fault should have occurred with the computer.””
A software glitch, then?