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The Germanwings 9525 "Crash Rehearsal" Story is Total Bullshit

Posted on May 6, 2015 by willyloman


by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: The Huffington Post is now running with the stupid story as is CNN, Fox News, CBS and many others.



Still trying to prop-up their pathetic official story about how Germanwings flight 9525 crashed into the French Alps 6 weeks ago, authorities have pre-released a report to the German newspaper Bild which supposedly details how the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz "practiced" resetting the auto-pilot setting to 100 feet altitude several times on a previous flight he worked on that same day.

That is an absolutely ridiculous notion which isn't even supported by the evidence they themselves present. As stupid as it is, the story is already being repeated at news sites like Sputnik International without the first hint of questioning the moronic narrative nor the clearly contradictory evidence presented.


The German newspaper Bild reported that the Germanwings co-pilot, suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps in March, killing all 150 people on board, practiced a descent on a previous flight on the same day.

The newspaper referred to an interim report, due to be published by France's BEA crash investigation agency later on Wednesday. Sputnik International

First of all, a pilot with the flight hours that Lubitz had does not need to practice" setting the auto-pilot target altitude to 100 ft above sea level. He would just do it.

According to this story he had to "practice" setting that altitude over and over again, multiple times, and one time they claim he left it at that setting for more than 100 seconds (#2 on graph below)

According to the story, as he was told to reset the altitude of that flight, Lubitz did so by seemingly always setting the new altitude at 100 feet and then readjusting it back up. This happened several times according to Bild and the BEA crash investigation.

Seems to me that the auto-pilot system itself was having problems, not the co-pilot. Seems to me he was keeping from resetting itself to 100 feet of altitude when he kept changing it to the new altitude that the flight tower was ordering him to set.

Here's the "proof" that Bild offers. It's a graphic showing the altitude of the flight during the time the investigation says Lubitz was "practicing"


At first glance the readers are supposed to look at that descent and proclaim "OH MY GOD! he was practicing! Look at that descent"

But if you care to read the actual article which I had Google translate for me, you find it isn't a drastic descent like the one flight 9525 underwent at 3,400 feet per minute and, in fact, ALL OF THE DESCENT CHANGES CAME STRAIGHT FROM THE CONTROL TOWER PRECISELY WHEN THEY APPEAR ON THE GRAPH


To 08:20: 29 clock the flight was handed over to the en-route control center Bordeaux. The crew was asked to go down to the flight level 350 (35 000 feet). The statement was read by the co-pilot.

To 08:20: 32 clock was the aircraft to descend to flight level 350 above, which had been adjusted for a few seconds before.

…

To 08:21 10 clock the Bordeaux Control the crew gave the instruction to continue the descent to FL 210 (21,000 feet)


To 08:21 16 clock the adjusted height was 21 000 feet.

The report from Bild does not bother to explain why the crew eventually leveled out at 25,000 feet. That must have been an order given to them by the control tower which appears to have been deliberately left out of the Bild article.

Here is a graph of the descent of flight 9525 later that same day. You will notice the descent of that plane is very different than that of the one he flew earlier in the day.

You will notice that each time he was asked to reset the altitude on the auto-pilot system, it seems the value was set, either by him or by the auto-pilot system itself, at 100 feet.

You will also notice it does appear that the rate of descent changed when the altitude was supposedly set at 100 feet.

Now you might not notice on the graph above those times it was only set at that altitude for 3 seconds, but look at the rate of descent when it was supposedly changed for 100 seconds.

You would expect the aircraft to have dived at that point like flight 9525 did at a rate of 3,400 feet per minute but it didn't. The rate of descent always remains constant.

In fact, if you look at it, during that time, those 100 seconds, it actually seems to have leveled off for a while.

I'm very curious where they come up with this "set at 100 feet" information. Will they release the raw data on that?

Anyway, this new narrative which is intended to provide the final nail in the guilt coffin of Andreas Lubitz is completely ridiculous on it's face and as you can see, their own evidence doesn't seem to support their conclusion that he was "practicing" his death dive.

But then again, much of their story is bullshit.