Andreas Lubitz, the Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing an aircraft in southern France earlier this week, hid details of an existing mental illness from employers. Submissions from German prosecutors state they do not know what condition Lubitz suffered from, but media report suggested he suffered depression and required ongoing assessment.
“The dark clouds of protectionism” gathering over the air travel industry in Europe and the United States pose a significant threat to the millions of travellers who have benefitted from new choice in the market, argued Etihad Airways chief executive James Hogan earlier. Addressing the Aviation Club, Hogan said international regulators should recognise that, “investing…
Low-cost carrier Norwegian has decided to change its cockpit procedures so that two crew members always are present in the cockpit. Norwegian had been examining cockpit procedures prior to the crash. However, in light of the tragic Germanwings accident, the airline said it was speeding up the process so that two crew members always are…
#INFOGRAPHIC Precedents of pilots downing their planes pic.twitter.com/25gtCGysea— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) 27 Mars 2015
The co-pilot of Germanwings flight 4U 9525 appeared to deliberately “destroy the plane”, French officials have revealed. Speaking to media, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, said the co-pilot intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out of the cockpit. Robin confirmed the hypothesis based on information from the ‘black box’ voice recorder recovered from…
Cheeky power cut at the airport #pryce #amsterdam Une photo publiée par John McPartland (@john_mcp) le 27 Mars 2015 à 2h29 PDT Power outage @Schiphol airport. Looking like lots of delays. Security screening @ gate not working (D-gates at least) pic.twitter.com/vwhQIhbLB7— Simon Bolton (@simonrbolton) 27 Mars 2015 Been sat for an hour in the dark…
Citing internal documents and Lufthansa sources, Bild said Andreas Lubitz spent a total of one and a half years in psychiatric treatment and that the relevant documents would be passed to French investigators once they had been examined by German authorities. Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr told a news conference on Thursday that Lubitz had…
In the last 17 months, 52 Australians have been killed in air disasters. People sign the memorial book, lay flower and light the candle in memory of the victims of MH17 passengers. Amsterdam International Airport (Schiphol), 21 July 2014. (Pejman Akbarzadeh / Persian Dutch Network) 2015 March 25: France: A Victorian woman and her adult…
A severe hard landing by a Malaysia Airlines A330 at Melbourne Airport has kept it stranded there for the last 10 days pending inspections, any necessary repairs and now, an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The A330 is now ‘limping home’. It was picked it up on Flightradar24 this morning as MAS5160 crossing…
Montreal, Canada, March 25, 2015 – (NYSE: CAE; TSX: CAE) – CAE today announced that it has sold five full-flight simulators (FFSs) and simulator update services to customers in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Link
According to FlightRadar24, Between 09:30:52 and 09:30:55, the autopilot was manually changed from 38,000 feet to 100 feet and 9 seconds later the aircraft started to descend, probably with the “open descent” autopilot setting. Here are all the details
