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RE: LH Joins List Of Airlines Changing Cockpit Rules..

Given that United had to change their policy too it apparently was not the law in the US so far.

racko

RE: Norwegian Change Their Routines In The Cockpit

Looks like the "It's the law in the US" information is false:

https://twitter.com/BrianSumers/status/581248183340236800/photo/1

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RE: Norwegian Change Their Routines In The Cockpit

Honestly, how do you stop someone who is authorized to be in the cockpit from crashing the plane? You can't. With this 2 person rule implemented you just eliminate the "rogue pilot alone in the cockpit crashes aircraft" scenario by adding the "rogue <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 8

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mila" class="quote" target="_blank">mila</a> (<a href="#98" class="quote">Reply 98</a>):<br/><i>Still no name of the co-pilot, could he be a rad...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 8

FO deliberately initiated the descent and deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit.

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 8

BEA currently confirming the NYT report. The FO was in the seat, Captain outside the cockpit.

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 8

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/capri" class="quote" target="_blank">capri</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i>We haven't heard from military what the interc...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 8

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/curlyheadboy" class="quote" target="_blank">curlyheadboy</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>I know even if I'm not an aviation...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 8

Was too late in the older thread: <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CXfirst" class="quote" target="_blank">CXfirst</a> (<a href="#177" class="quote">Reply 177</a>):<br/><i>Where ...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 6

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/F9Animal" class="quote" target="_blank">F9Animal</a> (<a href="#232" class="quote">Reply 232</a>):<br/><i>I find it odd that the pilots names ha...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 6

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/hivue" class="quote" target="_blank">hivue</a> (<a href="#189" class="quote">Reply 189</a>):<br/><i>Has a stroke or heart attack, immediately st...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 6

If the New York Times is correct then that requires the pilot remaining in the flight to take deliberate steps to lock out the other pilot, correct?

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Unflug" class="quote" target="_blank">Unflug</a> (<a href="#157" class="quote">Reply 157</a>):<br/><i>I'm really not sure about that. The slide ...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LTC8K6" class="quote" target="_blank">LTC8K6</a> (<a href="#152" class="quote">Reply 152</a>):<br/><i>No mention of ACARS?</i></font></td></tr><...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Unflug" class="quote" target="_blank">Unflug</a> (<a href="#145" class="quote">Reply 145</a>):<br/><i>I understood that they have NOT yet been a...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

This press conference is not going well. I think the director just wants to say "I'm not saying anything", but you can guess how the press is going to spin "I can't confirm that the voices are the pilots" into hijacking scenarios etc..

[Edited 2015-03-25 09:25:24]

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

BEA director unwilling to say whether the pilots were speaking during the descent yet.

[Edited 2015-03-25 09:17:40]

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

BEA lead investigator, assisted by BFU and Spanish equivalent

- Technical advisors from Airbus, Germanwings, Lufthansa

- more organization details

- difficult site for an investigation

[Edited 2015-03-25 09:09:04]

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

BEA press conference starting...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/holzmann" class="quote" target="_blank">holzmann</a> (<a href="#117" class="quote">Reply 117</a>):<br/><i>How many boxes have been found? One? B...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

Hollande confirms CVR recovered but not yet analyzed, FDR not found yet.

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Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

BEA press conference delayed to 16:30.

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Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

Airlive reports that the FDR has been found, but is "severely damaged", with the memory chip "dislodged and missing".

https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/580732959193473024

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Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 5

The voice recorder is with the BEA in Paris, if there are any leaks they will most likely be in the French press, not the Finnish, Danish or Austrian press...

But the best course of action would be to just wait for their press conference at 16:00...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 2

Crash site, via "Le Dauphine":

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 2

Summary of the important stuff from the press conference: Timeline 10:01: Departure 10:45: Cruise (FL 380) 10:46: Descent 10:53: Loss of contact (6000 ft) - no distress signal, no ATC contact regarding the descent - Captain has 6000 hours on the A320 - Aircraft had an A-Check yesterday - Flight comp...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 2

Even more press conference: - 24 years is not too old for an aircraft - <acronym title="Germanwings (Germany)">4U</acronym> continues flying - 24 years is really not too old - Intra-Schengen flight, so no precise numbers on nationalities - no Chinese passengers as far as they know - We are investiga...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 2

More <acronym title="Germanwings (Germany)">4U</acronym> press conference, now press questions: - They don't know whether there was a distress signal - No idea why they entered the descent - no problems on the earlier flight <acronym title="Dusseldorf - International (Rhein-Ruhr / Lohausen) (DUS / E...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 2

Germanwings press conference: Reached cruise at FL380 at 10:45 left that altitude at 10:46 Descent for 8 minutes, ATC lost signal at 10:53 at 6000 ft Aircraft is D-AIPX, delivered 1991 to Lufthansa, with <acronym title="Germanwings (Germany)">4U</acronym> since January 2014 Last A-Check was yesterda...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 2

Apparently no emergency call from the flight deck, ATC activated emergency procedures because of the data they were seeing and the loss of contact.

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racko

RE: Apple - What Will Apple Reveal Tomorrow?

According to the meltdowns on twitter Apple seems to be struggling with livestream technology.

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racko

RE: Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crashes In Ukraine

Can't make this up. MAH B777 in the Ukraine/Russia border region.

To be honest I'm a bit surprised that there are still airliners flying there given the events in recent days.

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MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 1

Assuming that it is 2:40 Subang time, it has been missing for almost 6 hours. Airliners don't disappear for 6 hours and then reappear.

[Edited 2014-03-07 16:39:28]

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MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 1

"Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft. "

That does not sound good at all.

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racko

RE: Light Rail Power Question

In France some tram systems use third-rail that only is switched on when it is covered by a train. Haven't heard of any electrocutions.

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RE: New 2014 BMW M3 & M4

The color of the <acronym title="ABSA Aerolinhas Brasileiras (Brazil)">M3</acronym> is BMW's legendary Estoril Blue which they have finally brought back again. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a...

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New 2014 BMW M3 & M4

M3: <a href="http://www.autoblog.nl/gallery/BMW/0_Gelekt/BMW_M3_F80/bmw-m3-f80-gelekt-007.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.autoblog.nl/gallery/BMW/0_Gelekt/BMW_M3_F80/bmw-m3-f80-gelekt-007.jpg" width="650" height="487" alt="http://www.autoblog.nl/gallery/BMW/0_Gelekt/BMW_M3_F80/bmw-m3-f80-g...

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GM To Drop Chevrolet Brand In Europe

<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/05/us-generalmotors-chevy-idUSBRE9B407W20131205" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...motors-chevy-idUSBRE9B407W20131205</a> Shockingly, <acronym title="Air Slovakia">GM</acronym> seems to have finally realized that there isn't a lowe...

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racko

RE: Crappy New Heavy Appliances In The US

Bought both a Miele washer and drier 12 years ago because my grandfather insisted on Miele, basically describing any other brand as throwing money out of the window. Haven't had a problem since.

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racko

RE: Italy Coach Crash - 38 Killed

It's a terrible few weeks for transportation.

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RE: Train Derailment In Spain

Apparently the track is very straight for a long time with a speed limit of 200 km/h, which is then reduced to only 80 km/h for this tight bend - and they were too cheap to install an automatic train control system even though it has to be obvious that this a very dangerous segment.

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RE: Train Derailment In Spain

Reports of up to 35 killed

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RE: Train Derailment In Spain

Looks like a Class 130:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RENFE_Class_130

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RE: Worlds Largest Ship Prepares To Sail

Kinda sad that these new supersized container ships lack any kind of elegance. It looks like just a hull with the bridge just slapped somewhere into the middle. The Batillus linked earlier had something majestic about it, this actually looks cheap. <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com...

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RE: Oldest Ship In Regular Commercial Service?

<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/PD_Diesbar.jpg/800px-PD_Diesbar.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/PD_Diesbar.jpg/800px-PD_Diesbar.jpg" width="650" height="463" alt="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/t...

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RE: ET 787 On Fire At Heathrow

The fire damage to the roof hopefully means that it's not battery-related. A galley fire would be not pleasant, but at least it wouldn't hurt the whole 787 program.

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RE: World's Best Seller - 2014 Toyota Corolla Unveiled

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/L0VE2FLY" class="quote" target="_blank">L0VE2FLY</a> (<a href="#29" class="quote">Reply 29</a>):<br/><i> 2014 Toyota 4Runner. </i></font></td></...

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RE: World's Best Seller - 2014 Toyota Corolla Unveiled

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/na" class="quote" target="_blank">na</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i> I am speechless how such cars can become the world´...

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RE: A350 First Flight Official Thread - Live Streaming

Leahy on camera. The lady has to be careful or he's gonna sell her an A380.

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RE: F1 2013: Malaysian Grand Prix

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Bill142" class="quote" target="_blank">Bill142</a> (<a href="#41" class="quote">Reply 41</a>):<br/><i>Did you stop to consider that maybe they w...

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