Planecrash in France, developing story

[Fragony]

looks like it was not an accident, the French autorities think it was done on purpose. No terrorist-attack at least, but suicide with taking 150 people with you. This is really a tragedy there will probably be nothing to bury, that plane looks like it was evaporated you can only see a wheel, the rest is gone.

RIP victims.

ffz if you have to commit suicide put a bag on your had and take a bath, so many lives lost

[Rhyfelwyr]

One of the main theories with that Malaysian flight that went missing was suicide as well IIRC.

I normally have sympathy for people who commit suicide but its hard when they do it in such a way. RIP to all who lost their lives.

[Viking]

This would be murder/homicide, not simply suicide - to state the obvious.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Heard the announcement this morning. Nauseating.

Said prayers for them and the families. Simply horrifying.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

This morning I watched the press session with the Lufthansa CEO. He was, to my ability to read body language (not a German speaker, so I don't know all the cultural norms there) sincere and earnest in his responses. Moreover, he had a look on his face that I have come to associate with a person experiencing heartburn but whose antacids aren't kicking in.

Then this afternoon I heard a snippet from Merkel's address on the issue. I don't believe I have ever heard her sounding so emotionally affected by something -- though admittedly we only get limited exposure here to German political events.

I am getting a sense that many in Europe are quite horrified by this event.

[Fragony]

Of course we are horrified, it's horrible. The -alledged- guy who -alledgedly- did this is supposed to have had a mental breakdown, but that was years ago and he passed all psychological tests. Nobody seems to understand it, employers nor relatives, he seemed to be perfectly sane is what they all say. From the video's I saw the system is pretty foolproof, but systems can fail. That he was steadily breathing untill the impact doesn't really say anything either, it could really be an accident. I hope it was. Also bears mentioning that the fabricant of airbus-planes warned against a defect in certain models, this was one of them, that if a plane reaches a certain angle the software takes over and the pilot isn't in control anymore. There is a door at the front, what if it opened for some reason, pulling the plane in that angle. I am not going to draw any conclusions just yet.

update: major fuckup. He didn't just have a mental breakdown, he was in a closed institution. People can fully recover of course but becomming a pilot? A tad risky I would say. Since when is the background of employers not checked anymore.

People can fully recover so I'm waiting for me, can still be an accident but it at least looks bad. Not comfirmed: he might be a convert to islam.