The Germanwings Crash: Claims of Co-Pilot ‘Suicide Rehearsal’ More Fantasy Than Fact
While this new detail might be alarming to some – to those familiar with airliner protocol, any major alteration to the altitude settings would be noticed by the flight crew...
‘Valley of Debris ‘ – The remains of Germanwings flight 9525 Airbus A320. (Photo link nydailynews.com)While the Germanwings Captain, Patrick Sondheimer was out of the cockpit, Lubitz allegedly set the aircraft descent settings five times in a four-and-a-half minute period. On April 3rd, French investigators stated that flight 9525’s black box data revealed that ‘autopilot’ settings had been adjusted to speed up its descent.
This begs the question: If flight 9525 was sped up upon its initial descent – why wouldn’t the flight crew notice deviations allegedly made during the outbound Barcelona descent rehearsal?
Here’s a compelling interview conducted by German journalist, Ralph T. Niemeyer with flight veteran Field McConnell discussing the many anomalies associated with flight 9525’s catastrophic end…
Over the past week, 21WIRE reached out to pilot McConnell to discuss the awareness of the flight crew regarding the abrupt altitude changes allegedly made by Lubitz on the outbound flight from outbound flight to Barcelona from Düsseldorf. Here’s what he had to say:
“The captain and crew would have noticed (altitude changes) and said something and he (Lubitz) then would have been removed from flight status for deviating from an assigned altitude.”In a recent Germanwings report from CNN, Flightradar24 seems to be playing an important role in the establishment of the ‘official’ French Alps crash narrative:
“Transponder data shows that the autopilot was reprogrammed during the flight by someone inside the cockpit to change the plane’s altitude from 38,000 feet to 100 feet, according to Flightradar24, a website that tracks aviation data.”If you remember last July, here 21WIRE, in a lengthy investigation about the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17, we clearly demonstrated how both FlightRadar and FlightAware changed previous flight path data on their websites between July 24-25th. The data originally published on their website, was altered in favor of a series of new ‘old’ flight paths directed over the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Given CNN’s loathsome reporting about the MH370 disaster and Flightradar24’s data alterations in the aftermath of MH17’s downing in addition to other false reports by other media outlets - how is the public to believe these latest claims about allegedly deliberate altitude changes on the Germanwings flight?
‘Speaking Out’ – Gerard Arnoux, an 18-year Air France captain and spokesperson aviation safety. (Photo link pbs.twimg.com)On March 29th, the alternative media site Sign of the Times, discussed the commentary of longtime Air France captain Gerard Arnoux regarding the Germanwings disaster. Here’s the following portion from Sott.net, with Arnoux questioning the official narrative:
“One of the major pieces of data used to justify the “suicide pilot” story comes from the alleged CVR recording where, we are told, Lubitz’s ‘breath’ can be heard. This claim has been directly contested by Gerard Arnoux, an 18-year Air France captain and spokesperson for the national monitoring committee on aviation safety, who appeared on ‘Le Grande Journal’ two days after the crash. Arnoux stated that there were three errors in the official story:
1) It is not possible to hear a
pilot’s breath on the CVR. Arnoux states that the cockpit of 1st
generation A320s are very noisy, so much so that, in flight, pilots had
to use headsets to speak to each other. The idea that the CVR could pick
up Lubitz’s breath with so much ambient noise is not possible,
according to Arnoux.
2) The official story claims that
investigators heard the ‘beep’ of the knob that Lubitz used to start the
plane on its descent. Arnoux states categorically that this knob makes
no sound.
3) Arnoux also wonders why
no mention was made by investigators of hearing the loud strident
beeping made by the cockpit door console when the emergency access code
is entered to open the cockpit door. Arnoux recognizes that the
emergency unlock code could have been overridden by someone in the
cockpit manually holding the lock button down, but this would not have
prevented the beeping once the code was entered outside. This would have
been the clearest confirmation that one of the pilots had been locked
out. Yet no mention was made of it. Instead, we are asked to accept the
word of those privy to the CVR that someone was “banging on the door”
and shouting “open the damn door.” And with all that ambient noise in
the cockpit too. They must have very good hearing.”
Questions about the Germanwings disaster continue to persist, just as there are many questions and anomalies surrounding both MH370 and MH17 – many of those questions continue to point back to the Boeing Honeywell ‘Uninterruptible’ Autopilot System a rarely discussed breakthrough in avionics.You have to wonder if the families of those lost will receive any credible answers from investigators in this highly suspect Germanwings case…
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