As investigations continue for the recent Germanwings crash, more questions arise as well. Aviation experts Thomas Anthony, Michael Barr and Glenn Winn discuss the various factors that could have played roles in what now looks like a deliberate crash.
Below is a sampling of recent of media articles about this event.
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According to aviation experts, the A320 Airbus is considered a workhorse of the skies and is constantly in service all over the world. The aircraft that crashed in the French Alps Tuesday was an A320 Airbus. (View article) |
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The Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps ends the longest period in modern aviation history without a fatal accident on a large European passenger plane. (View article) |
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The Airbus A320 is the workhorse of Europes aerospace industry, transporting more than a million people a day from business travellers to backpackers. The 150-seat medium-haul jet is one of the worlds most intensively used together with its main rival, the Boeing 737. (View article) |
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Glen Winn, an aviation instructor at the University of Southern California, discusses airplane cockpit procedures and pilot training. (View article) |
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USC aviation expert Michael Barr is concerned about the flying public’s response to news that Tuesday’s Germanwings jetliner crash in the French Alps was a willful act. (View article) |
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The apparently deliberate act of a German pilot that caused the deaths of 150 people in France is leading to a broad reexamination of international airline security rules, which allowed the pilot to lock his more senior crew member out of the cockpit. (View article) |
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The mystery surrounding this week's crash of a German airliner into the French Alps deepened Wednesday with a report suggesting the pilot may have been locked out of the cockpit before the crash. (View article) |
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Aviation security experts said Thursday that U.S. airlines follow strict security procedures to ensure that no one is ever left alone in the cockpit as was the case with a Germanwings pilot now suspected of deliberately crashing an Airbus 320 in the French Alps. (View article) |
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Flying is safer than ever before, yet in this era of locked cockpit doors and pilot screening, authorities said Thursday that a single aviator was able to deliberately crash a commercial airliner in the French Alps. (View article) |
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Investigators now say Tuesday's Germanwings airline crash that killed 150 people was a "deliberate" act. The co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit. A mysterious tragedy has now become a criminal case. (View article) |
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150 passengers were on board Germanwings Flight 9525 from Barcelona, Spain to Dusseldorf, Germany, and French president Francois Hollande told reporters he fears that, because of the conditions of the crash, all on board are dead. (View article) |
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It’s very difficult to screen airplane pilots for mental health issues that may drive them to do harm to themselves or their passengers while in the air, aviation experts told BuzzFeed News. (View article) |
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The prosecutor examining a Germanwings plane crash that killed 150 people on Tuesday has opened an investigation for voluntary manslaughter, as it increasingly seems that the only co-pilot left in the cockpit at the end of the flight wanted to “destroy the aircraft.” The pilot was a 28-year-old German man named Andreas Lubitz, and he appeared to be conscious until the plane crashed. (View article) |
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A jet plane is a complex piece of machinery built on redundancies; if one system fails, another takes its place.That holds true in many facets of aircraft design — except, apparently, when it comes to the cockpit door. (View article) |
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The notion that a pilot may have been left alone in the cockpit of Germanwings Flight 9525 shortly before it crashed in the French Alps is virtually unheard of, an aviation specialist told the Los Angeles Times Thursday. (View article) |
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On Tuesday morning, Germanwings flight 9525, en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, crashed in the remote southern French Alps. All 150 passengers and crew are presumed dead. Thanks to the quick recovery of one of the plane's flight recorders, some details of the final moments of the flight are now known: one of the pilots was banging on the cockpit door, presumably locked out, while the second pilot—identified as German Andreas Lubitz—was in the cockpit breathing normally. (View article) |
