Aviation expert blames germanwings plane crash on over-reaction to 9-11 attacks.

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Making cockpit doors impregnable seemed like a good idea at the tiime.

Prison Planet.com Andreas Lubitz Knee-jerk reaction to 9 11 enabled mass murder

march 27 2015
A leading aviation security expert has condemned the rules on cockpit access as a “knee-jerk reaction to the events of 9/11” – which, he says, enabled the Germanwings co-pilot to commit the mass murder of the 149 other people on Flight 4U 9525.

Philip Baum, the editor of Aviation Security International magazine, said: “From the moment it became apparent that the Germanwings flight had made a controlled descent… with no Mayday, one feared that either pilot suicide or a hijack was the cause. The ill-thought reinforced cockpit door has had catastrophic consequences.”

Andreas Lubitz used his expertise to lock the captain out of the flight deck of the Airbus A320. He knew that the procedures implemented since 11 September 2001 enabled someone on the flight deck to take total control.

Until the 9/11 attacks, most passenger aircraft had a fairly flimsy door between the cockpit and the cabin, because an attack on the pilots and a takeover of the aircraft was considered implausible. The 9/11 hijackers, armed with blades that they had taken through security, were able to access the flight deck and kill the pilots to take control.

 

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Germanwings crash investigation ended...

German prosecutors close Germanwings crash investigation
Jan 9,`17 -- German prosecutors said Monday they had closed their investigation into the crash of a Germanwings plane in the French Alps almost two years ago, concluding there were no indications that anybody other than co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been involved in the intentional crash.

"We have closed the case, there will be no further investigations," Duesseldorf prosecutor Christoph Kumpa told The Associated Press on Monday. On March 24, 2015, Lubitz locked Germanwings Flight 9525's captain out of the cockpit and deliberately set the plane on a collision course with a mountainside. All 150 people aboard, including Lubitz, were killed. The plane had been on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. Among the passengers was a group of 15 students and two teachers from a high school in the western German town of Haltern who were flying home from an exchange trip to Spain. Lubitz had in the past suffered from depression, but authorities and his airline later deemed him fit to fly. In the months ahead of the crash, Lubitz suffered from sleeplessness and feared losing his vision, but he hid that from his employer.

Prosecutor Kumpa said no third party was involved or aware that Lubitz was planning to crash the plane. Christof Wellens, a lawyer representing 35 families who lost loved ones in the crash, told the AP that some relatives were upset that the case had been closed. "Some relatives view the closure of the case in Germany with horror because there are a lot of emotions, even two years after their family members were murdered," Wellens said. "They don't understand why only Germanwings and Lufthansa should be responsible. I think there are actual people who could be held responsible too."

Rescuers work on debris of the Germanwings jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France. German prosecutors said on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, that they have closed their investigation into the crash of the Germanwings plane in the French Alps almost two years ago​

Heinz Joachim Schoettes, a spokesman for the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings, which has since replaced the Germanwings brand, welcomed the prosecutor's decision. Wellens said the civil cases wouldn't be affected by the Duesseldorf decision because the claims are being directed at Germanwings and its parent company Lufthansa, not at the doctors who assessed Lubitz, and that the case is being pursued on the basis of contractual obligations between the airline and its passengers.

Several victims' families last year also filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against an Arizona-based flight school where Lubitz was trained, alleging the school failed to properly screen his medical background. Schoettes said the U.S. case was without merit. In France, where the plane crashed, authorities have been conducting their own separate investigation of the crash. It also seeks to determine eventual criminal responsibility for the crash. Many airlines and regulators have made changes since the crash and now require at least two people to be in the cockpit at any given time to prevent similar crashes.

News from The Associated Press

 

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Making cockpit doors impregnable seemed like a good idea at the tiime.

Prison Planet.com Andreas Lubitz Knee-jerk reaction to 9 11 enabled mass murder

march 27 2015
A leading aviation security expert has condemned the rules on cockpit access as a “knee-jerk reaction to the events of 9/11” – which, he says, enabled the Germanwings co-pilot to commit the mass murder of the 149 other people on Flight 4U 9525.

Philip Baum, the editor of Aviation Security International magazine, said: “From the moment it became apparent that the Germanwings flight had made a controlled descent… with no Mayday, one feared that either pilot suicide or a hijack was the cause. The ill-thought reinforced cockpit door has had catastrophic consequences.”

Andreas Lubitz used his expertise to lock the captain out of the flight deck of the Airbus A320. He knew that the procedures implemented since 11 September 2001 enabled someone on the flight deck to take total control.

Until the 9/11 attacks, most passenger aircraft had a fairly flimsy door between the cockpit and the cabin, because an attack on the pilots and a takeover of the aircraft was considered implausible. The 9/11 hijackers, armed with blades that they had taken through security, were able to access the flight deck and kill the pilots to take control.

When a plane nose dives, its moving faster than a falling object, so people cant make forward motion towards the cockpit. They are pushed the opposite direction, to the back of the plane. The door could have been wide open, but no one could get to it, let alone through it.

If the pilot wants to kill you, youre dead.