Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Germanwings Airbus A320 Black Box Found

Aircraft carrier Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps, Tuesday (24/03/2015)
French Foreign Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the black box carrier Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed on Tuesday (03/24/2015) has been found. Furthermore, the black box will be checked by the aviation authorities.

He also made sure that the 144 passengers and six crew with flight number 4U 9525 route Barcelona-Duesseldorf killed.

Separately, an investigator, Bruce Robin, said it had found the location of the wreckage around the French Alps.

"We saw that the plane had been blown to pieces. The airframe is in a state of disrepair. None of the pieces of the fuselage or wings are intact," he told Reuters.

Separately, the French police who have been in the vicinity of the wreckage, said it found no survivors.

"We continue to look for. However, there can be no corpse that could be lifted until Wednesday," said local police chief, David Galtier.

A report from the site Flightradar24, which monitors air traffic around the world, calling the Airbus A320 initially rose to an altitude of 38,000 feet before swooping cruising altitude quickly.

In a press conference in Cologne, Germanwings management stated, a minute after reaching cruising altitude, the plane began to lose altitude quickly before falling through the earth.

Flightradar24 website states, Airbus was down from cruise altitude very quickly, which is between 3,000-4,000 feet per minute which according to the website it is a standard speed as the plane was approaching the airport.

Radio contact between Germanwings Airbus pilot was lost when the aircraft reaches an altitude of 6,000 feet at 10:53 local time. The aircraft was descending rapidly over eight minutes before the communication is lost.

Initial reports had said an emergency call came from the plane at 10:47 local time. However, the German government then ensure seruang "mayday" comes from an air traffic controller after losing contact with the plane.

Inside the plane, there were 144 passengers and six crew. A total of 67 passengers were believed to be German citizens who will return from their vacation in Spain.

Published by the German daily Bild reported, in the plane, there are also 16 students and two teachers who will follow the student exchange program.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain said, the possibility of 45 citizens of Spain is in the ill-fated plane, while the rest were believed to be Turkish citizens.

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