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A little TV piece about conspiracy theorists at Cambridge will be broadcast today. German http://info.arte.tv/de/bittere-wahrheit-oder-volliger-blodsinn-europas-verschworungstheorien French http://info.arte.tv/fr/theories-du-complot-absurdite-ou-realite There are excerpts from the program on...

New revelations point to a not-so-spontaneous decision by Mr. Lubitz. The tablet computer from his home was analyzed and revealed past search queries about both methods for suicide and technical details about cockpit doors ("in the week before the crash", as the district attourney from...

It is visible in the transponder transmission. See post #69.

But in this case, according to the cockpit recording, he made that offer twice, instead of just waiting for that 'call'. I think other captains may remember similar exchanges if they took place.

Your whole post is an excellent assessment about what we know about Mr Lubitz up to now. I find it plausible from beginning to end. I think people who have not lived through depression have a hard time to imagine what it can be like. A good friend of mine was affected and afterwards told me...

Adding to the more irrational aspects of this affair: The flying club where Mr. Lubitz was accepted as a 14-year-old for glider training has received "e-mail death threads" for having started his flying career ...

Yesterday, there was confirmation of something I suspected for a while: Andreas Lubitz knew the area where he crashed the plane from earlier visits. As I have remarked earlier, the area is busy with glider flying tourism. Mr. Lubitz is said to have stayed at Sisteron, annother famous...

Barcelonette and its vicinity is a famous and busy glider flying destination, though not this time of year.

Andreas Lubitz started glider flying as a teenager in a club not far away from where I live. This is a very common career start for German pilots. At least five friends from my club that did their training alongside myself are now professional pilots. Most flying clubs in Germany are building...

Yes, it's sad. There has been going so much thinking into security and fail-proving the technology, as well as into training and vetting the human beings at the controls. And still there is a weak link in the chain now and then.

This is consistant with the emergency access procedure described in the video I linked above, at 3:56.

TWCobra has stated in a previous post that to his knowledge there is no way the descent was controlled by autopilot. I think we have to take the word of an experienced flight captain here ...

There is a recent public video about one flavour of reinforced cockpit doors which is said to be associated with Airbus:

So I take it that the descent was initiated manually, the speed obviously not increased which could point to a possible structure damage if there was really a decompression. The deep sound that was described by witnesses might have been caused by a hole in the fuselage, with the airstream being...

"The plane issued a distress call ..." This was corrected later. There was no distress call during the descent. One of many such reports: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-03-24/flight-4u9525-did-not-issue-distress-call/

Question to pilots: Is there something like an automated response to an air pressure drop in the cabin/cockpit? Or is pilot action required to initiate a descent like the one that we are seeing? Anyway, my first guess here would be (sudden) loss of conciousness.

One possibility is that the geo-engineering researchers - or at least the conference organizers - are well aware of the chemtrail 'movement' and decided to go for transparency, to avoid the impression of a closed discussion. It started at the last conference in Berlin IIRC. It may also be that...

I think it is noteworthy what was not in the presentation. That includes the "secret island" at the coordinates 0° W 0° N of whose existence Ian was so convinced about for a while. Either the choir of people calling that nonsense became too large (probably even including fellow believers), or...

Ah, I thought that the image was somehow familiar ... but Google's image search did not bring it up, even when combined with "site:metabunk.org".

This is annother exhibit that I came across on FB. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the original source yet. My take is that the plane at 'the front' is a Boeing 737-300 or something in that class, and the one 'behind' is a Boeing 767-400 or similar - which is much larger in comparison and...