On board Germanwings Flight 9525: An 8-minute descent to death

Source:
CNN.com

I have to say that I strongly disagree with the conclusion thrown here and there in the press.

Nothing factual to conclude that such case have happened. With such an horrific scenario I would have expected ppl to be more cautious. Anybody had a thought for his mother or his father before writing down such assertion in the press?

The door locking system, as explained above, can be put on manual LOCK that will hold and mute the buzz for 5 to 20 min depending on the selected preset Brice Robin, the main source of those information for the press, never mention the Buzz sound that would have been eared if the Copilot recycled the LOCK to deny any entries.

The fact that, as stated, we can hear the copilot breathing, does not means that the copilot was not incapacitated. Unconscious or paralyzed means that you are still breathing.
Remember that in the Batteries theo for MH370 we have seen that a runway will result in paralysis (I have pushed the fact that one o the pilot was still able to steer back the plane using the rudder before being fully incapacitated – the blood circulation converging on that hypo).

Remember the TBM900 accident with its pilot and passenger sighted unconscious leaned frwd on the flight console from Miami to Jamaïca?

German Pilot association should take the bull by the horns There is no solids converging argumentation to conclude for a suicide. And what is that idea that you will pull yourself through 8 long minute facing death before dying? Suicidal person doesn’t submit themselves thought dire agonies. They seek for comfortable death. He could have dived straight into the sea or to the ground with a steeper angle. Why that shallow? Why no communication to the cabin, the radio, with the pilot knocking at the door or no adrenaline rush (crying, screaming etc…).

And then the passengers are supposed to have watched calmly the pilot tying to break through the cockpit door without interacting ?!!!

IT DOES NOT FIT.

So how did the door override lock get engaged?

I think it might be some sort of habits or procedure to keep crew member safe from being held in hostage for the password.

Preset is only 5 min but can be extended manually. That might be why the tension took time to rise in the voice of the Pilot lock out.

So, in that hypo, the Pilot exit, the copi lock the door and then experience something that let him incapacitated…

We have the same scenario as in the rescent UK Voyager report.

Bellow an illustration to depict flight stick mode

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If you push once, you need to pull back to retrieve initial trajectory. With a conventional plane, the trajectory is an equilibrum btw speed and height (as a function of the trim level).

In the case of the German A320, if the co-pilot once left alone in the cockpit felt unconscious (incapacitated) and pushed inadvertently the stick, the plane would have stabilized in a dive with the AP and safety systems regulating the acceleration and max allowed speed.

from Airbus manual:

Flight path stability instead of speed stability
– control inputs are made to alter the flight path, not
to hold it.

Effectively, if there is nobody anymore to alter a wrong input… Would you like your steering wheel acting the same?

But we hve alrdy discussed all that in the Stuntman thread and around AF447 with the ridiculous cheap spring mounted stick mechanism endorsed by Airbus.

Source:
A319-320-321 Flight Deck and Systems Briefing for Pilots

The Su-34 most likely only shares shares wing structure, fins and engine nacelles with the Su-30.. Nose, cabin, dorsal spine, tail, landing gear and intakes are different. I also believe the airframe must be furthermore beefed up.. When empty, it weighs 5 tons more than Su-30, too.

central structure looks pretty well identical. Don’t forget that G limitation can make for the extra weight.

can’t found back the pic but the frwd frame limiting the integral fuselage tank might be the frame where you start having differences (in the frwd section).

Just like a twin seater for a F15 or M2k

One pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash

A senior military official involved in the investigation described “very smooth, very cool” conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf. Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” the investigator said. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”

He said, “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”

Source:
The New York Times

Su34 seemq almost identical structurally. Except for the nose obviously.

We had here some pretty good pic of the production line

Australian F-35A Pilot Interview

Squadron Leader Andrew Jackson, last week took his first flight in an F-35A aircraft at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, United States.