To further the point, you were apparently locked out of this print item and I've come to the conclusion that it is insane to trace down all the reedited rewrites (not in that case, although it continued after the print ended, something I've seen a lot of with the Globe lately as I try in vain to catch up after getting away for a few days). My first thought upon seeing such an arrangement is what are they covering up now (the death of the Booz Allen Hamilton employee who spent her career supporting the mission of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,” which coordinates satellite-based mapping for the Pentagon?).
Yeah, I must be crazy....
FLASHBACK:
"Black box found damaged in fatal Alpine plane crash" by Greg Keller and Lori Hinnant, Associated Press March 25, 2015
My printed byline lists an Angela Charlton, not Lori Hinnant, so here we go. What are they covering up now?
SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — A cockpit voice recorder badly damaged when a German jetliner slammed into an Alpine mountainside and a crucial two-minute span when the pilot lost contact offer vital clues into the crash’s cause, officials said Wednesday.
I no longer believe official anything, particularly when it comes to plane crashes.
All 150 people on board were killed in Tuesday’s crash of the Germanwings Airbus 320 in the southern French Alps.
Helicopters surveying the scattered debris lifted off at daybreak, hours ahead of the expected arrival of bereaved families and the French, German and Spanish leaders. The flight from Spain to Germany went into an unexplained eight-minute dive before crashing.
Crews were making their way slowly to the remote crash site through fresh snow and rain, threading their way to the craggy ravine. On Tuesday, the cockpit voice recorder was retrieved from the site, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
‘‘The black box is damaged and must be reconstituted in the coming hours in order to be useable,’’ Cazeneuve told RTL radio.
Stinks of cover up already!
Key to the investigation is what happened during the minutes 10:30 and 10:31 a.m., said Segolene Royal, a top government minister whose portfolio includes transport. From then, controllers were unable to make contact with the plane.
The voice recorder takes audio feeds from four microphones within the cockpit and records all the conversations between the pilots, air traffic controllers as well as any noises heard in the cockpit. The flight data recorder, which Cazeneuve said had not been retrieved yet, captures 25 hours’ worth of information on the position and condition of almost every major part in a plane.
Not that we would believe what we are told it says, but....
Royal and Cazeneuve both emphasized that terrorism is considered unlikely.
That raises some interesting questions since it is dismissed out of hand. Isn't Israel angry at the E.U. on the Palestinian issue? Wasn't Malaysia outspoken on the topic? I am only reiterating what other bloggers have mentioned. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
Investigators retrieving data from the recorder will focus first ‘‘on the human voices, the conversations’’ followed by the cockpit sounds, Transport Secretary Alain Vidalies told Europe 1 radio. He said the government planned to release information gleaned from the black box as soon as it can be verified.
Meaning when they get the cover story written they will disseminate it.
Victims included two babies, two opera singers, an Australian mother and her adult son vacationing together, and 16 German high school students and their teachers returning from an exchange trip to Spain.
In Seyne-les-Alpes, locals had offered to host bereaved families because of a shortage of rooms to rent, said the town’s mayor, Francis Hermitte.
The plane, operated by Germanwings, a budget subsidiary of Lufthansa, was less than an hour from landing in Duesseldorf on a flight from Barcelona when it unexpectedly went into a rapid eight-minute descent. The pilots sent out no distress call and had lost radio contact with their control center, France’s aviation authority said.
Very strange indeed!
Germanwings said 144 passengers and six crew members were on board.
An Air France flight from Paris to Saigon crashed just a few kilometers (miles) from the same spot in 1953, killing all 42 people on board.
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Kind of a cheeky photo at the bottom, isn't it? Looks like Pennsylvania on 9/11, and more like a shoot down anything else (if it even happened at all).
Were there any war games going on in the area?
What I was told:
"Plane crash kills 150 people in French Alps; Europe in shock" by Greg Keller and Angela Charlton | AP March 24 at 7:55 PM
SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France — A black box recovered from the scene and pulverized pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides held clues to what caused a German jetliner to take an unexplained eight-minute dive Tuesday midway through a flight from Spain to Germany, apparently killing all 150 people on board.
The victims included two babies, two opera singers and 16 German high school students and their teachers returning from an exchange trip to Spain. It was the deadliest crash in France in decades.
The Airbus A320 operated by Germanwings, a budget subsidiary of Lufthansa, unexpectedly went into a rapid descent. The pilots sent out no distress call and had lost radio contact with their control center, France’s aviation authority said, deepening the mystery.
The plane acted almost as if it were overtaken by remote control (if it happened at all).
While investigators searched through debris from Flight 9525 on steep and desolate slopes, families across Europe reeled with shock and grief.
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It took investigators hours to reach the site, led by mountain guides to the craggy ravine in the southern French Alps, not far from the Italian border and the French Riviera.
“Everything is pulverized. The largest pieces of debris are the size of a small car. No one can access the site from the ground,” Gilbert Sauvan, president of the general council, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, told The Associated Press.
Hmmmmmmmmm!!
“This is pretty much the worst thing you can imagine,” said Bodo Klimpel, mayor of the German town of Haltern, rent with sorrow after losing 16 tenth graders and their two teachers.
The White House and the airline chief said there was no sign that terrorism was involved, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged reporters not to speculate on the cause.
Hmmmmmmmmm!!
“We still don’t know much beyond the bare information on the flight, and there should be no speculation on the cause of the crash,” she said in Berlin. “All that will be investigated thoroughly.”
Lufthansa Vice President Heike Birlenbach told reporters in Barcelona that for now “we say it is an accident.”
In Washington, the White House said American officials were in contact with their French, Spanish and German counterparts. “There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time,” said U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said a black box had been located at the crash site and “will be immediately investigated.”
Except it is now damaged.
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Germanwings is low-cost carrier owned by Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, and serves mostly European destinations. Tuesday’s crash was its first involving passenger deaths since it began operating in 2002. The Germanwings logo, normally maroon and yellow, was blacked out on its Twitter feed.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr called it the “blackest day of our company’s 60-year history.” He insisted, however, that flying “remains after this terrible day the safest mode of transport.”
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Authorities faced a long and difficult search-and-recovery operation because of the area’s remoteness. The weather, which had been clear earlier in the day, deteriorated Tuesday afternoon, with a chilly rain falling. Snow coated nearby mountaintops.
French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said the crash site covered several acres, with thousands of pieces of debris, “which leads us to think the impact must have been extremely violent at very high speed.”
Uh-oh.
Search operations were suspended overnight and were to resume at daybreak, though about 10 gendarmes remained in the desolate ravine to guard the crash site, authorities said....
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I would like you to know I have done no independent investigation or looked at any alternative blog sites to find anomalies (emphasize last syllable) in the official shovelful of sh**. I am simply going on what load the Globe is plopping forth.
"In locked cockpit, a silent, deadly 8-minute descent into French Alps" by Stephanie Kirchner and Brian Murphy Washington Post March 27, 2015
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The copilot of the Germanwings flight locked himself in the cockpit and, with apparent cool precision, deliberately slammed into snow-capped mountains, a French prosecutor said Thursday, in a stunning twist to a tragedy that killed all 150 people aboard.
The conclusions, based on cockpit flight recordings recovered from the wreckage, abruptly shifted the investigation into a realm that Germany’s chancellor called ‘‘incomprehensible.’’
His account offered a chilling and calculating scenario....
I suppose you can continue if you like official fictions. I did notice the impeccable verbatim quality of the article though.
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Of course, there were no signs of trouble with the young man who was happy in his job (hmmmmm); however, that does not mean mental health scrutiny of pilots with another photographic piece meant to convince you of the veracity of the propaganda pre$$, and all it does is fuel further suspicions as it does mention crash of the Egypt air flight in 1999, often seen as a test run for 9/11 remote-controlled aircraft (if you believe what you saw on television that day; your choice whether the position is a limited hangout or not). Then comes the thought, be it Europe or the U.S. defying the Israeli agenda these days, and how often such disasters seem to travel in their wake.
Now they are planting things, 'er, combing his home for clues as the airlines hastily add a new cockpit policy (that the Globe endorses the very next day).
I almost can't wait to see what bogus story they come up with next.
NDUs:
Lufthansa strikes enter third day; several Boston flights canceled
And then a crazy pilot ditches one of their planes, 'eh?
"Prosecutor says copilot’s troubles were hidden; Psychological issues may have led to air crash" by Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner, Washington Post March 28, 2015
MONTABAUR, Germany — On the day he appeared to fly a commercial airliner into a chilly mountainside in France, Andreas Lubitz was hiding a potentially deadly secret: a chronic medical condition that a doctor had determined was serious enough to keep him out of the sky.
Then why was he even flying at all?
Among the pile of evidence seized by investigators in Lubitz’s belongings were torn and crumpled doctors’ notes excusing the pilot from work. The notes included a period extending to Tuesday, the day of the crash.
Yeah, he tore up his "sick notes."
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Seriously, you guys do not expect this pile of BS to fly, do you?
The discovery came as investigators look into whether the 27-year-old’s health — including possible psychological problems and a suspected background of clinical depression — played a critical role in an air tragedy that claimed 150 lives.
The solution is clear. Do not fly, ever.
Authorities would not reveal the exact nature of Lubitz’s illness. But an official from the German prosecutor’s office in Düsseldorf, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to reveal details beyond an official statement, said that the doctors’ notes were related to a ‘‘long-lasting condition.’’ Asked whether they were also related to psychiatric problems, he said, ‘‘Read between the lines.’’
I AM, and this is looking like a remote control downing like the Egyptian airliner.
Then, incredibly, I notice the article has been altered from the print version. Wish I could say I was surprised, but it is telling nonetheless. For some reason the “life crisis and trouble with his girlfriend” has been removed (as is the reference to his training in Phoenix at the same school that the framed patsy pilots of 9/11 were allegedly trained. Is it possible a CIA brainwashing and mind manipulation program creating Manchurian candidates for flying exists?), and it turns out he may have been on prescription pharmaceuticals, “but of course, you can get a good actor and he can easily hide any issues.”
????????
Could this be, please say it is not, another staged and scripted fiction and hoax?
The comments came after Germany’s Bild newspaper reported that Lubitz had been treated for at least one ‘‘serious depressive episode’’ so bad that he had to suspend flight training for several months in 2009.
On Friday, the Rheinische Post also reported that the medical notes discovered in Lubitz’s apartment came from at least two doctors — suggesting he may have been searching for a favorable diagnosis and possibly feared losing his medical certification to fly.
German aviation authorities said Lubitz’s medical file, required for his pilot’s license, contained a notation that he was required to have ‘‘special regular medical examinations,’’ but such citations can relate to a wide range of conditions.
This cover story isn't flying, sorry.
Yet the prospect that mental-health problems may have figured in the crash of the Germanwings plane additionally shined a spotlight on what critics call flaws in the regular medical checks required of airline pilots, who must pass as many as two exams per year.
Anytime some agenda is spotlighted after some tragedy I am damn suspicious!
Such tests, however, are largely geared toward catching physical ailments, such as vision or heart problems, that could impair performance in a cockpit. But mental-health tests in fitness evaluations are often cursory, sometimes amounting to little more than a written questionnaire.
‘‘Typically, there are no tests applied to identify psychological diseases,’’ said Andreas Adrian, an aviation doctor who evaluates Lufthansa’s and other airlines’ pilots in Bremen, Ger-many. ‘‘Maybe you are giving someone a questionnaire to answer, but of course, you can get a good actor and he can easily hide any issues.’’
The debate intensified on Friday over whether mental health should be more deeply examined — an effort strongly opposed by some pilot groups and others who say that could add to the pressures of an already-high-stress job.
Simple solution: Don't fly anymore.
More rigorous mental-health testing could ‘‘uncover thousands of people who are going through difficult times in their lives and prevent them flying when they are perfectly capable of carrying out their normal day jobs,’’ said Philip Baum, editor of the magazine Aviation Security International. ‘‘You will have to employ far more pilots, and it would be an additional stress and could make things worse.’’
Simple solution: Don't fly anymore.
The possibility that Lubitz may have hidden his condition — a task that could have been made easier by strict medical privacy laws in Germany — might help explain how he passed his flight training program.
Ah, the agenda comes into view.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said this week that his company, which owns Germanwings, was never informed of the reason for Lubitz’s medical leave in 2009, a period in which the newspaper Bild said Lubitz was suffering from clinical depression.
Yet, even if he did hide an illness, the fact that Lubitz — who lived much of the year with his parents in this quiet town in southwest Germany — passed muster at Lufthansa’s demanding flight school with what Spohr called ‘‘flying colors’’ raised additional questions.
It sure does, as does the "Yet even if, fact that" doublespeak nonsense!
The course is meant to weed out potentially troubled men and women, using role-play scenarios in cockpits to measure reactions to conflict and stress, as well as highly personal lines of questioning to assess psychological balance.
‘‘They have to expect questions about their personal histories,’’ said Michael Müller, chief executive of ATTC, a company that helps prepare pilot candidates for entering flight schools, including Lufthansa’s. ‘‘How did you grow up? Did your parents divorce? How did you feel when they did?’’
Who would ever want to be a pilot these days?
Under existing aviation laws, any diagnosis of depression or other serious mental illness should have made it difficult for Lubitz to continue flying in Europe, and certainly not without extensive treatment. Even then, certain limitations are placed on pilots who are taking psychotropic medications — such as popular antidepressants — including a stipulation that they not be alone in the cockpit.
Now I definitely never want to fly again.
Investigators, meanwhile, sought more answers about the man who German and French investigators believe brought down Flight 9525 on his own.
A police spokesman outside Lubitz’s apartment building in Düsseldorf said Friday that investigators had completed their searches a day earlier, spending 3½ hours scouring the apartment and taking away two cardboard boxes and a large bag of Lubitz’s possessions.
The University Hospital Düsseldorf confirmed that Lubitz visited the facility in February and, for the last time, on March 10 for ‘‘diagnostic clarifications.’’
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I almost can't wait to see what bogus story they come up with next.
NDUs:
Lufthansa strikes enter third day; several Boston flights canceled
And then a crazy pilot ditches one of their planes, 'eh?
"Prosecutor says copilot’s troubles were hidden; Psychological issues may have led to air crash" by Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner, Washington Post March 28, 2015
MONTABAUR, Germany — On the day he appeared to fly a commercial airliner into a chilly mountainside in France, Andreas Lubitz was hiding a potentially deadly secret: a chronic medical condition that a doctor had determined was serious enough to keep him out of the sky.
Then why was he even flying at all?
Among the pile of evidence seized by investigators in Lubitz’s belongings were torn and crumpled doctors’ notes excusing the pilot from work. The notes included a period extending to Tuesday, the day of the crash.
Yeah, he tore up his "sick notes."
??????????????????
Seriously, you guys do not expect this pile of BS to fly, do you?
The discovery came as investigators look into whether the 27-year-old’s health — including possible psychological problems and a suspected background of clinical depression — played a critical role in an air tragedy that claimed 150 lives.
The solution is clear. Do not fly, ever.
Authorities would not reveal the exact nature of Lubitz’s illness. But an official from the German prosecutor’s office in Düsseldorf, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to reveal details beyond an official statement, said that the doctors’ notes were related to a ‘‘long-lasting condition.’’ Asked whether they were also related to psychiatric problems, he said, ‘‘Read between the lines.’’
I AM, and this is looking like a remote control downing like the Egyptian airliner.
Then, incredibly, I notice the article has been altered from the print version. Wish I could say I was surprised, but it is telling nonetheless. For some reason the “life crisis and trouble with his girlfriend” has been removed (as is the reference to his training in Phoenix at the same school that the framed patsy pilots of 9/11 were allegedly trained. Is it possible a CIA brainwashing and mind manipulation program creating Manchurian candidates for flying exists?), and it turns out he may have been on prescription pharmaceuticals, “but of course, you can get a good actor and he can easily hide any issues.”
????????
Could this be, please say it is not, another staged and scripted fiction and hoax?
The comments came after Germany’s Bild newspaper reported that Lubitz had been treated for at least one ‘‘serious depressive episode’’ so bad that he had to suspend flight training for several months in 2009.
On Friday, the Rheinische Post also reported that the medical notes discovered in Lubitz’s apartment came from at least two doctors — suggesting he may have been searching for a favorable diagnosis and possibly feared losing his medical certification to fly.
German aviation authorities said Lubitz’s medical file, required for his pilot’s license, contained a notation that he was required to have ‘‘special regular medical examinations,’’ but such citations can relate to a wide range of conditions.
This cover story isn't flying, sorry.
Yet the prospect that mental-health problems may have figured in the crash of the Germanwings plane additionally shined a spotlight on what critics call flaws in the regular medical checks required of airline pilots, who must pass as many as two exams per year.
Anytime some agenda is spotlighted after some tragedy I am damn suspicious!
Such tests, however, are largely geared toward catching physical ailments, such as vision or heart problems, that could impair performance in a cockpit. But mental-health tests in fitness evaluations are often cursory, sometimes amounting to little more than a written questionnaire.
‘‘Typically, there are no tests applied to identify psychological diseases,’’ said Andreas Adrian, an aviation doctor who evaluates Lufthansa’s and other airlines’ pilots in Bremen, Ger-many. ‘‘Maybe you are giving someone a questionnaire to answer, but of course, you can get a good actor and he can easily hide any issues.’’
The debate intensified on Friday over whether mental health should be more deeply examined — an effort strongly opposed by some pilot groups and others who say that could add to the pressures of an already-high-stress job.
Simple solution: Don't fly anymore.
More rigorous mental-health testing could ‘‘uncover thousands of people who are going through difficult times in their lives and prevent them flying when they are perfectly capable of carrying out their normal day jobs,’’ said Philip Baum, editor of the magazine Aviation Security International. ‘‘You will have to employ far more pilots, and it would be an additional stress and could make things worse.’’
Simple solution: Don't fly anymore.
The possibility that Lubitz may have hidden his condition — a task that could have been made easier by strict medical privacy laws in Germany — might help explain how he passed his flight training program.
Ah, the agenda comes into view.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said this week that his company, which owns Germanwings, was never informed of the reason for Lubitz’s medical leave in 2009, a period in which the newspaper Bild said Lubitz was suffering from clinical depression.
Yet, even if he did hide an illness, the fact that Lubitz — who lived much of the year with his parents in this quiet town in southwest Germany — passed muster at Lufthansa’s demanding flight school with what Spohr called ‘‘flying colors’’ raised additional questions.
It sure does, as does the "Yet even if, fact that" doublespeak nonsense!
The course is meant to weed out potentially troubled men and women, using role-play scenarios in cockpits to measure reactions to conflict and stress, as well as highly personal lines of questioning to assess psychological balance.
‘‘They have to expect questions about their personal histories,’’ said Michael Müller, chief executive of ATTC, a company that helps prepare pilot candidates for entering flight schools, including Lufthansa’s. ‘‘How did you grow up? Did your parents divorce? How did you feel when they did?’’
Who would ever want to be a pilot these days?
Under existing aviation laws, any diagnosis of depression or other serious mental illness should have made it difficult for Lubitz to continue flying in Europe, and certainly not without extensive treatment. Even then, certain limitations are placed on pilots who are taking psychotropic medications — such as popular antidepressants — including a stipulation that they not be alone in the cockpit.
Now I definitely never want to fly again.
Investigators, meanwhile, sought more answers about the man who German and French investigators believe brought down Flight 9525 on his own.
A police spokesman outside Lubitz’s apartment building in Düsseldorf said Friday that investigators had completed their searches a day earlier, spending 3½ hours scouring the apartment and taking away two cardboard boxes and a large bag of Lubitz’s possessions.
The University Hospital Düsseldorf confirmed that Lubitz visited the facility in February and, for the last time, on March 10 for ‘‘diagnostic clarifications.’’
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