Germanwings flight crash site The preliminary reports published by French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority BEA into the 24...
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| Germanwings flight crash site |
The preliminary reports published by French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority BEA into the 24 March Germanwings A320 crash in French Alps, reveals that the co-pilot during the previous flight, from Düsseldorf to Barcelona, adjusted the altitude selector to limiting values.
The flight was also crewed by the same pilots.
The report says the co-pilot in the absence of the captain, selected 100 ft and 49000 ft on the altitude selector, the lowest and highest altitudes possible for the Airbus A320 jetliner.
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| Germanwings descent during the previous flight |
- at 7 h 19 min 59, noises like those of the cockpit door opening then closing were
recorded and corresponded to when the Captain left the cockpit.
- the aeroplane
was then at cruise speed at flight level FL370 (37,000 ft).ˆ
- at 7 h 20 min 29, the flight was transferred to the Bordeaux en-route control
centre and the crew was instructed to descend to flight level FL350 (35,000 ft), an
instruction read back by the co-pilot.
- at 7 h 20 min 32, the aircraft was put into a descent to flight level FL350 , selected
a few seconds earlier.
- ˆ at 7 h 20 min 50, the selected altitude decreased to 100 ft for three seconds and
then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 ft and stabilized again at 35,000 ft.
- at 7 h 21 min 10, the Bordeaux control centre gave the crew the instruction to
continue the descent to flight level FL210.
- at 7 h 21 min 16, the selected altitude was 21,000 ft.
- from 7 h 22 min 27, the selected altitude was 100 feet most of the time and
changed several times until it stabilized at 25,000 ft.
- at 7 h 24 min 13;
ˆ at 7 h 24 min 15, the buzzer to request access to the cockpit was recorded. ˆ
- at 7 h 24 min 29 noises like those of the unlocking of the cockpit door then its
opening was recorded and corresponded to the Captain’s return to the cockpit.
The complete report is here
