From what you have read, what do you believe the cause of the German plane in the Alps was?

It’s pretty clear from this morning’s report that it was a deliberate action on the part of the co-pilot. What his motivation was is unclear but they are saying at this point that they don’t see it as terrorisim.

Probably the NSA.

It looks pretty deliberate, but I guess it doesn’t mean much to Joe Passenger if it was terrorism or suicide. It just sucks either way.

According to my secret sources, the co-pilot’s last message over the interkom was “allahu akhbar, lol”

Deliberate action by co pilot.
I will play the odds and say it was terrorism.

Aliens.

Should there not have been a key for that door that the head flight attendant should always have?

The fail safe entry systems (that I know about) are on a time delay.

Pilot suicide.

From what I have read at this point, it was either pilot suicide, or the co-pilot had a heart attack. If it were terrorism, someone would have taken credit by now, and the plane probably would have been flown into something more valuable than the side of a mountain.
I am betting on pilot suicide, due to the autopilot being changed, but not the lock on the door.

Still reserving judgement.

B613.

The co-pilot, a huge Top Gear fan, chose to fly that fucker into a mountain because he couldn’t face life without Jezza…plane crazy.

Until the flight data recorder is recovered & analyzed, a definitive answer remains elusive. Yes, the cockpit voice recorder captured the sound of his breathing during the descent, but it cannot answer one key question: was he conscious and merely choosing to say nothing, or did something happen to him that caused him to lose consciousness?

@luckyguy. B613! Love it. I knew you were going to be a closet Scandel lover despite making fun of it.

Whatever cause it is finally attributed to, it will be forever classified / categorized as “controlled flight into terrain”.

That’s nice, isn’t it? It sounds so… banal. Much nicer-sounding than “deliberately crashed at high speed”.

From what I heard on that particular model of aircraft there is a keypad to gain entry into to cockpit. But it can be disabled from inside the cockpit. The pilot tried to get inside but the keypad was disabled from within the cockpit.

If it was a normal key you could just shank a member of the crew and get the key from them.

We can be sure it was not the work of Osama Bin Laden.

We of the United States say you’re welcome.

I think the copilot locked the door as standard safety protocol, but has a massive heart attack, stroke or something like that and did something to while having the medical emergency caused the plane to ditch.

@chyna “B613” is the only reasonable answer. Certainly no co-pilot would intentionally crash a plane with 150 other people on it. (without yelling “Tawkalt ala Allah”, EgyptAir 990, into the recorder.)

By the way, I suspect he didn’t open the door because the pilot did not say “Open… the… door…!” sufficiently slowly and with enough mouth enunciation. At least that’s how it works on that show.

The co-pilot allegedly told his ex-girlfriend people would remember him when he was gone. :(

I’m no longer still reserving judgement; I’m now convinced the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane. The reason why is a different question.

I wonder if technology be implemented that would allow the cockpit door to be opened (perhaps by small charges) remotely from the ground.

According to the latest 3/28, he said: “One day I will do something that will change the whole system and then all will know my name and remember.”

He’s right about one thing: I will remember ‘Andy Nitwitz’ as a worthless, piece of garbage, and a depressed sociopath.

Seriously? Is his name Nitwitz? There’s your reason, I guess.

@Here2_4 Close, but actually that was not his name. I refuse to give nutjobs the courtesy of immortality.

And actually @LuckyGuy I have no idea what his name is. Just like I have no idea who the nut jobs that killed the people in theaters, in schools, in malls. They aren’t famous, they aren’t infamous, they are people that committed horrible crimes and we only remember the crimes, not the criminals.