german plane crash

[cookiecookuk]

....i am sitting here in shock..have the news on and they have just said the co pilot of the German plane took his own life by crashing his plane taking over 150 innocent people with him.R.I.P. everyone who was on board...

[millielilac]

It is very disconcerting and probably one of the last things that was expected...

Quite why this pilot took this action is a mystery ....if it was suicide then its appalling that he should take another 150 people with him ...it is so upsetting .....

It is shocking beyond belief ...

[chickengrandma-2008]

And his parents have just arrived along with all the other parents and relations.  How many different emotions will be running through them.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Very sad. What must have been going through his mind. Such a shame.

[bjenkinsbuildersmerchants]

Incredibly sad situation.  What state of mind must the poor man have been in to do that to himself and so many innocent people?

[bitsnknots]

I've heard that as well.  If that's the case, it's an awful situation.  Another thing that was on the news earlier was that one of the windows in the cockpit broke.

[malacandran]

Let's hope relatives of the deceased, aren't contemplating disgraceful lawyer-induced notions. Such as claiming monetary compensation from the airline operator.

On grounds of "Mental anguish",  "devastated" etc.. etc

[cee-dee]

The breaking or loss of a cockpit window was speculation as it wasn't known at the time that the plane hadn't depressurised.

It was later found from the Cockpit Voice Recorder that the captain was trying to re-gain entry to the cockpit while the co-pilot was heard breathing "normally". After that, just before impact, the passengers could be heard screaming. Those factors indicated that the plane hadn't depressurised as it would have done had the winscreen been cracked or lost.

I just hope that after the premature release of information and the co-pilot "blamed" that it isn't found after further scrutiny that such a conclusion was wrong.

[bitsnknots]

I must admit thought that the window could have been broken on impact.  I hope that the parents of the co-pilot - if he was responsible for what happened - stay away from the rest of the families.

[cee-dee]

Well, you see what's happened to the rest of the plane after being flown in to a mountain at 350MPH ? Huge bits of metal smashed in to thousands of pieces so what chance for a bit of glass, reinforced or not?

The early speculation was about advancing a possible cause of the crash and hypoxia after depressurisation was just one of the theories put forward. Had the plane depressurised, death would have occurred after about 4 minutes so the pilot wouldn't have been calling out, the passengers screaming and the co-pilot breathing normally just before impact.

[stan3502]

Absolutely tragic for all those involved and my heart goes out to all the families involved including those of the co-pilot because let us not forget they have also lost a son and now have to deal with the huge impact of what he is accused of doing.

They did not commit this horrendous act and as such should take no blame , we will never know the whole story probably but whether this be an act of murder or a suicide which impacted on oh so many lives it was not commited by them

[ginap.123]

I feel the same. The parents of the co-pilot have no reason to stay away. They've done nothing wrong and will be grieving and as confused and devastated as the rest of the families there.

[myraandjim]

Am I dreaming, or did they say the same about the pilot of the missing Malaysian plane?

[cee-dee]

Now we hear that the co-pilot had suffered depression and had had 18 months of treatment and ".....German media reported he had been battling mental health issues........"

[ed_blackadder_1]

Thats a bit worrying CD.

[learning2me]

Police have found a torn up sick note valid for the day of the crash. He had been signed off with depression.

[leoleoleo123]

A complete tragedy...

[cee-dee]

It looks like he'd been thinking about doing it for some time:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32098578

[learning2me]

It seems that there were a catalogue of errors and miscommunications that lead to this tragedy.

[cee-dee]

More shocking revellations:-

http://news.sky.com/story/1454876/crash-captain-screamed-open-the-damn-door