JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
PROVERBS 23:5
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
JOB 40:18
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
NEWS FOR 4U 9525 ALPS AIRBUS 320-200 CRASH KILLED 150
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320.html (D-10)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_90.html (D-07)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_29.html (D-06)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_28.html (D-05)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_27.html (D-04)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_3.html (D-03)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_25.html (D-02)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320.html (D-01)
GERMANWINGS SITE
http://ca.edreams.com/
http://www.germanwings.com
https://www.germanwings.com/en/4u/company/about-us.html
LUFTHANSA AIRLINES
http://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/company.html
http://www.lufthansa.com
AIRBUS 320
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/a320/
AIRBUS A320-200 SEAT LAYOUT 4U9525-AIPX
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Germanwings/Germanwings_Airbus_A320.php
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Germanwings/information.php
FLIGHT GLOBAL
http://www.flightglobal.com/
FLIGHT RADAR24.COM-ASIA
http://www.flightradar24.com/13.08,75.06/2
NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE DAYS 51 - 80
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_20.html
NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE DAYS 25 - 50
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_16.html
NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE DAYS 01 - 24
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_21.html
IDENTIFICATION PAGE OF THE DEAD FROM FLIGHT QZ 8501-A320-200
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/identification-page-of-passengers-and.html
ALL MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz8501-missing-on-way-to.html
MH370 OFFICIAL SITE
http://www.mh370.gov.my/index.php/en/
MH370 ALL UPDATES
http://www.mh370.gov.my/index.php/en/2014-10-08-06-31-42/2014-10-08-06-32-33
MH 777-17 STORIES-RUSSIA DOWNS JETLINER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mh370-2-arrested-for-stealing-20000.html
EARTH NETWORKS-LIGHTENING STRIKES
http://www.earthnetworks.com/ournetworks/lightningnetwork.aspx
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-happens-to-lost-and-christians.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/rare-goblin-shark-caught-what-could.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/my-vision-from-yesterday-and-katey.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/world-war-3-and-nuclear-weapons-that.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/prophecies-of-atomic-weapons-being-used.html
AirTeamImages -AIPX GERMANWINGS FLIGHT 4U9525 AIRBUS 320 -150 DEAD
UPDATE APR 06,2015-12:00PM
WE NOW FIND OUT THERE WAS A VIDEO OUT OF THE LAST 2 SECONDS OF THE CRASH.AND LUBITZ LOOKED ON THE INTERNET HOW TO DIE BY SUICIDE.AND LOOKED UP IMFORMATION ON THE PLANES COCKPIT DOOR.HOW TO BLOCK IT.THIS WAS A DELIBERATE MURDER OF THE 149 PEOPLE.LIKE I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG.AND THE DATA RECORDER HAS BEEN FOUND ALSO. AND ALSO WAS THE MH370 SEEN IN A SMALL ISLAND.
Island locals may have seen MH370-yahoonews-apr 5,15
Residents from Kudahuvadhoo, a small island in the Maldives, say they saw a low flying passenger jet on the morning flight MH370 disappeared.Kudahuvadhoo, in the southern part of the Dhaalu Atoll, is more than 5000 kilometres away from the area currently being searched for signs of the plane.On the morning of March 8, a number of island locals reported seeing a ‘jumbo jet’ passing suspiciously low overhead.IT manager Ahmed Shiyaam says he knew instantly that there was something unusual about the plane.'I'm very sure of what I saw on a very clear and bright day, and what I saw was not normal. The plane was very big, and low.’Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim also saw a low flying plane on March 8, but had no idea at the time that flight MH370 was missing.'I didn't know that a plane was missing. I went straight home and told my wife about it.’Mr Ibrahim said he was later shown pictures of the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that looked very similar to the plane he had seen.‘I have seen pictures of the missing plane. I believe I saw the plane’, he said.Several other locals also claim to have seen a low flying plane on March 8, with a number of residents providing signed statements to the Kudahuvadhoo police.The statements allegedly included accurate descriptions of the Malaysia Airlines colours on the plane’s doors.Recordings made by acoustic scientists from Curtin University appear to support the eye-witness accounts of Kudahuvadhoo locals. The scientists say they recorded ‘distinctive data’ that could be consistent with a plane crashing into the ocean in that area.However, the Maldvies National Defence Force released a statement at time of the disappearance officially denying the presence of aircraft in the area. Incredulous locals have criticised this, suggesting it was an attempt by the military to cover-up their inadequate radar facilities.Australia is currently leading the search operation, which is focused on a 60,000 square kilometre area ocean off the coast of Perth.Mr. Ibrahim is eager for the search area to be expanded to include water around Kudahuvadhoo.‘I strongly believe the search should come here’, he said.MH370, which was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was carrying 239 people when it disappeared over a year ago. So far there have been no confirmed sightings of the crashed plane or debris.
Crash piles pressure on Lufthansa CEO Spohr-Posted: Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:34 am | Updated: 9:01 am, Sat Apr 4, 2015.-mcdowellnews.com
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in France has heaped intense pressure on Lufthansa's CEO Carsten Spohr, who in less than a year at the helm has had to grapple with weak earnings, labor unrest and tough competition from lower-cost carriers.Analysts say he has made the correct moves, notably in his swift expressions of sympathy for the 149 victims and the relatives of those who died last week. French officials say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the Airbus A320 into a mountainside in the French Alps.They point to Lufthansa's admission that Lubitz had told them during his training that he had been treated for serious depression as an example of owning up quickly to bad news."They are taking it absolutely seriously, they are not being anything other than completely cooperative with the authorities and that's a good start," said Andrew Charlton, managing director of strategic consulting and government affairs firm Aviation Advocacy in Nyon, Switzerland.Spohr, he added, has "checked all the boxes" in responding to the crash and treating the situation with "the gravitas it requires."Spohr, 48, is far from done with the grim ordeal. The investigation will take months. Still ahead is the April 17 memorial service in the massive cathedral in Cologne, near where Germanwings is headquartered. The crash has stained Lufthansa's strong safety reputation - it is its worst crash since being revived after World War II in 1955 and the first fatal accident since 1993.The disaster during the flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf has subjected the airline to scrutiny over whether Lubitz should have been allowed to join its budget arm Germanwings in 2013.Spohr has said "no system in the world can rule out such an isolated event" but has been careful to say the word "sorry" and express his personal pain."I have worked at Lufthansa as an engineer, I have worked as a pilot at Lufthansa, I have carried responsibility as a manager at Lufthansa for many, many years," he said. "Always, wherever I was, whoever my boss was, the rule was always safety is No. 1. And that this has happened to us - I can only say we are sorry."So far, the German press, unions and government have not turned sharply on Spohr. Germany's Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said discussions over any management culpability from knowing Lubitz's history of depression are "unnecessary."Aviation Advocacy's Charlton said it would take a gaffe on a par with that made by BP CEO Tony Hayward after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to harm Spohr. Hayward's poorly received comment that "I'd like my life back" helped cost him his job."Is his number going to come up? At this point, I have to say no," said Charlton. When it comes to forestalling internal criticism, Spohr may be fortunate in being a longtime Lufthansa employee.After getting his pilot's license through Lufthansa's highly selective school, he started his business career there in 1994 as a personnel recruiter. His rapid rise included a stint in 1995-98 as assistant to then-CEO Juergen Weber. Spohr headed Lufthansa's cargo business and the passenger airline business before succeeding Christoph Franz as CEO on May 1, 2014.Spohr's stewardship of the company has centered on cutting costs in the face of competition from lower-cost carriers such as Ryanair and EasyJet on short routes within Europe, and on international routes from government-connected airlines from the Person Gulf region: Etihad, Qatar Airways, and Emirates.One major response has involved Germanwings taking over short-range flights outside the company's international hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. Additionally, Lufthansa's Eurowings division will adopt some of Germanwings budget seating practices - such as "basic" seating with no free checked bags or food - on long-range routes starting this fall.Lufthansa lost 732 million euros ($785 million) under German accounting rules last year due to an increase in pension liabilitiess and paid no dividend, although it turned an operating profit of 954 million euros excluding financial items. Revenue was flat at 30 billion euros. Spohr has said operating earnings aren't enough to pay for the investements in aircraft and premium services the airline needs to make to compete. Airlline analysts say insurance should cover the financial losses from the crash. The company said insurers have set aside 300 million euros, and the company offered to immediately pay 50,000 euros to victims' survivors.Another factor in Spohr's favor is that he's been in the job so little time - a change now would only increase the turmoil.Yet crashes can prove to be the prelude to departure - if they are seen to expose underlying problems.Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, is stepping down April 30 after a year that has pushed the company to the brink of bankruptcy - in 2014, the airline suffered the double tragedy of having one of its planes disappear with 239 people during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and another shot down, apparently by pro-Russian separatists, over eastern Ukraine as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.And Air France-KLM CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon left the company in 2011, two years after Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic. Safety experts raised questions about pilot training after the plane stalled at high altitude and the crew was unable to recover before it hit the water.
Media makes spectacle of mental illness, Germanwings tragedy
Peter Dissinger | Staff Columnist April 6, 2015-student life
Germanwings Flight 9525 was not supposed to crash—there were no thunderstorms in the area, no unexpected missile strikes, no international terrorists on board. For around 24 hours after the plane went silent, the media was dumbfounded. A controlled descent directly into the Alps simply seemed too bizarre to be explained by mechanical failure or weather. But then came the first and second black boxes and with it, a new suspect—co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.After finding that he was at the helm of the plane when it crashed, the media rushed to the emerging story. They found a history of mental illness that was hidden from German wings well enough for the company to allow him to continue flying. From there came the transcript of communication in the cockpit, more details about Lubitz’s life and even a reported video showing passengers screaming in the main cabin. Germanwings has done all it can to control the investigation of Lubitz and ensure that this kind of disaster will not happen in future years, but the media continues to press on, publishing story after story about any bit of information they find on Lubitz.The exposed story of Lubitz’s private life is not a surprising development given our culture of exhaustive investigation and our desire to know everything. If there is any computer data that reveals anything reminiscent of suicidal tendencies—in this case, doctor’s notes excusing him from work—newspapers will expose it. As a human being, Lubitz should at the least be spared the posthumous misery of being exhumed by every international news publication without any conclusive story on his life. Yes, he is a mass murderer, but is it our right to know his exact mental illness or challenge his ability to fly? There is an investigation designed to do just that, so why do we spend our time positing Lubitz’s exact motives? It’s a terrible occurrence and the public deserves to know the bare minimum of what occurred in those fateful 50 minutes from takeoff to crash, but it has all been taken too far. Now, the media is using hazy information to perpetuate stereotypes about mental illness and antagonize Lubitz in an unfair fashion.When a German newspaper released what it claimed was the transcript from the cockpit, the French accident investigation agency involved in the Flight 9525 case called it a dismaying leak of information. News outlets disseminated that the pilot was screaming “Open the damn door,” and that the people in the cabin could be heard screaming in fear. This data is extremely important for the airlines involved and the safety agencies designed to prevent these incidents. Further, transcripts are often released to the public, as happened with the crash of Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. But that needs to be done at the discretion of whatever aviation bodies are involved in the investigation, which is exactly the opposite of what happened with Germanwings Flight 9525.While the release of the transcript was troubling enough, now European news outlets are claiming that they have obtained footage of the main cabin during the final descent of Flight 9525 into the Alps. According to the Daily Mail, the video only lasts a few seconds and is very blurry, but passengers can be heard screaming “God help us” in a variety of languages. You could argue that any video that surfaces is harmless, but there’s something inherently wrong about disseminating media that shows people close to their deaths, screaming for help. It’s my belief that this kind of evidence, on the same line as the transcript, needs to be kept private in the immediate aftermath of the crash. It’s disrespectful to the victims’ families and does absolutely nothing for the public except inspire feelings of fear and terror.Like so many other international news stories and airline crashes, the media has overblown coverage of this crash, and it’s about time they back off. While Germanwings has handled the crash with dignity, respect for the victims and absolute cooperation, the media has dug deeply into the story of a troubled man, which the public has absolutely no right to know. Yes, we should know that Andreas Lubitz deliberately lowered the plane and was too easily able to commit suicide as a co-pilot. But the second we enter into the territory of Lubitz’s troubled life or even what exactly happened on that plane, the media is ultimately betraying journalistic integrity.
Investigators finished at Germanwings Flight 9525 crash site-Posted 3:50 PM, April 5, 2015, by CNN Wire
MARSEILLE, France (CNN) — Investigators have collected all the main evidence from the site where Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed, a French national police official told CNN on Saturday.Investigators are not expected to return to the crash site, said Capt. Yves Naffrechoux of the High Mountain Gendarmerie. The plane crashed March 24 in rugged terrain of the Alps about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the town of Seyne-les-Alpes.“All the police investigators have left the (Germanwings) crash site,” he said. “There is only a private security company ensuring security around the crash site so that no one can go there.”The security firm will guard the site until the remaining debris is collected and taken to secure locations for further analysis, if necessary, he said.The flight data recorder, or “black box,” was found Thursday by a member of the recovery team. The cockpit voice recorder was found days after the crash.In addition, out of more than 2,000 DNA samples collected from the crash site, lab workers have isolated 150 DNA profiles, said Brice Robin, Marseilles prosecutor. The crash killed all 150 people on board.Brice Robin, Marseilles prosecutor, said authorities have found 470 personnel effects at the site. That number includes 40 cell phones, though all those were badly damaged. Robin cast doubt that any useful information could be retrieved from those phones, given their condition.Authorities say the flight’s co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, locked the captain out of the cockpit and engineered the plane’s demise.Initial tests on the flight data recorder show that Lubitz purposely used the controls to speed up the plane’s descent, according to the French air accident investigation agency, the BEA.It also has emerged that Lubitz had battled depression years before he took the controls of Flight 9525 and that he had concealed from his employer recent medical leave notes saying he was unfit for work.CNN’s Margot Haddad reported from Marseille, and Greg Botelho wrote from Atlanta. CNN’s Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.
PROVERBS 23:5
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
JOB 40:18
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
NEWS FOR 4U 9525 ALPS AIRBUS 320-200 CRASH KILLED 150
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320.html (D-10)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_90.html (D-07)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_29.html (D-06)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_28.html (D-05)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_27.html (D-04)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_3.html (D-03)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320_25.html (D-02)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/germanwings-flight-4u9525-airbus-320.html (D-01)
GERMANWINGS SITE
http://ca.edreams.com/
http://www.germanwings.com
https://www.germanwings.com/en/4u/company/about-us.html
LUFTHANSA AIRLINES
http://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/company.html
http://www.lufthansa.com
AIRBUS 320
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/a320/
AIRBUS A320-200 SEAT LAYOUT 4U9525-AIPX
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Germanwings/Germanwings_Airbus_A320.php
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Germanwings/information.php
FLIGHT GLOBAL
http://www.flightglobal.com/
FLIGHT RADAR24.COM-ASIA
http://www.flightradar24.com/13.08,75.06/2
NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE DAYS 51 - 80
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_20.html
NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE DAYS 25 - 50
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_16.html
NEWS FOR QZ 8501-A320-200 ON MISSING PLANE DAYS 01 - 24
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/airasia-flight-qz-8501-missing-on-way_21.html
IDENTIFICATION PAGE OF THE DEAD FROM FLIGHT QZ 8501-A320-200
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/identification-page-of-passengers-and.html
ALL MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/12/airasia-flight-qz8501-missing-on-way-to.html
MH370 OFFICIAL SITE
http://www.mh370.gov.my/index.php/en/
MH370 ALL UPDATES
http://www.mh370.gov.my/index.php/en/2014-10-08-06-31-42/2014-10-08-06-32-33
MH 777-17 STORIES-RUSSIA DOWNS JETLINER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mh370-2-arrested-for-stealing-20000.html
EARTH NETWORKS-LIGHTENING STRIKES
http://www.earthnetworks.com/ournetworks/lightningnetwork.aspx
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEAD THE SECOND THEY DIE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-happens-to-lost-and-christians.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/rare-goblin-shark-caught-what-could.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/my-vision-from-yesterday-and-katey.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/world-war-3-and-nuclear-weapons-that.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/02/prophecies-of-atomic-weapons-being-used.html
AirTeamImages -AIPX GERMANWINGS FLIGHT 4U9525 AIRBUS 320 -150 DEAD
UPDATE APR 06,2015-12:00PM
WE NOW FIND OUT THERE WAS A VIDEO OUT OF THE LAST 2 SECONDS OF THE CRASH.AND LUBITZ LOOKED ON THE INTERNET HOW TO DIE BY SUICIDE.AND LOOKED UP IMFORMATION ON THE PLANES COCKPIT DOOR.HOW TO BLOCK IT.THIS WAS A DELIBERATE MURDER OF THE 149 PEOPLE.LIKE I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG.AND THE DATA RECORDER HAS BEEN FOUND ALSO. AND ALSO WAS THE MH370 SEEN IN A SMALL ISLAND.
Island locals may have seen MH370-yahoonews-apr 5,15
Residents from Kudahuvadhoo, a small island in the Maldives, say they saw a low flying passenger jet on the morning flight MH370 disappeared.Kudahuvadhoo, in the southern part of the Dhaalu Atoll, is more than 5000 kilometres away from the area currently being searched for signs of the plane.On the morning of March 8, a number of island locals reported seeing a ‘jumbo jet’ passing suspiciously low overhead.IT manager Ahmed Shiyaam says he knew instantly that there was something unusual about the plane.'I'm very sure of what I saw on a very clear and bright day, and what I saw was not normal. The plane was very big, and low.’Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim also saw a low flying plane on March 8, but had no idea at the time that flight MH370 was missing.'I didn't know that a plane was missing. I went straight home and told my wife about it.’Mr Ibrahim said he was later shown pictures of the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that looked very similar to the plane he had seen.‘I have seen pictures of the missing plane. I believe I saw the plane’, he said.Several other locals also claim to have seen a low flying plane on March 8, with a number of residents providing signed statements to the Kudahuvadhoo police.The statements allegedly included accurate descriptions of the Malaysia Airlines colours on the plane’s doors.Recordings made by acoustic scientists from Curtin University appear to support the eye-witness accounts of Kudahuvadhoo locals. The scientists say they recorded ‘distinctive data’ that could be consistent with a plane crashing into the ocean in that area.However, the Maldvies National Defence Force released a statement at time of the disappearance officially denying the presence of aircraft in the area. Incredulous locals have criticised this, suggesting it was an attempt by the military to cover-up their inadequate radar facilities.Australia is currently leading the search operation, which is focused on a 60,000 square kilometre area ocean off the coast of Perth.Mr. Ibrahim is eager for the search area to be expanded to include water around Kudahuvadhoo.‘I strongly believe the search should come here’, he said.MH370, which was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was carrying 239 people when it disappeared over a year ago. So far there have been no confirmed sightings of the crashed plane or debris.
Crash piles pressure on Lufthansa CEO Spohr-Posted: Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:34 am | Updated: 9:01 am, Sat Apr 4, 2015.-mcdowellnews.com
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in France has heaped intense pressure on Lufthansa's CEO Carsten Spohr, who in less than a year at the helm has had to grapple with weak earnings, labor unrest and tough competition from lower-cost carriers.Analysts say he has made the correct moves, notably in his swift expressions of sympathy for the 149 victims and the relatives of those who died last week. French officials say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the Airbus A320 into a mountainside in the French Alps.They point to Lufthansa's admission that Lubitz had told them during his training that he had been treated for serious depression as an example of owning up quickly to bad news."They are taking it absolutely seriously, they are not being anything other than completely cooperative with the authorities and that's a good start," said Andrew Charlton, managing director of strategic consulting and government affairs firm Aviation Advocacy in Nyon, Switzerland.Spohr, he added, has "checked all the boxes" in responding to the crash and treating the situation with "the gravitas it requires."Spohr, 48, is far from done with the grim ordeal. The investigation will take months. Still ahead is the April 17 memorial service in the massive cathedral in Cologne, near where Germanwings is headquartered. The crash has stained Lufthansa's strong safety reputation - it is its worst crash since being revived after World War II in 1955 and the first fatal accident since 1993.The disaster during the flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf has subjected the airline to scrutiny over whether Lubitz should have been allowed to join its budget arm Germanwings in 2013.Spohr has said "no system in the world can rule out such an isolated event" but has been careful to say the word "sorry" and express his personal pain."I have worked at Lufthansa as an engineer, I have worked as a pilot at Lufthansa, I have carried responsibility as a manager at Lufthansa for many, many years," he said. "Always, wherever I was, whoever my boss was, the rule was always safety is No. 1. And that this has happened to us - I can only say we are sorry."So far, the German press, unions and government have not turned sharply on Spohr. Germany's Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said discussions over any management culpability from knowing Lubitz's history of depression are "unnecessary."Aviation Advocacy's Charlton said it would take a gaffe on a par with that made by BP CEO Tony Hayward after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to harm Spohr. Hayward's poorly received comment that "I'd like my life back" helped cost him his job."Is his number going to come up? At this point, I have to say no," said Charlton. When it comes to forestalling internal criticism, Spohr may be fortunate in being a longtime Lufthansa employee.After getting his pilot's license through Lufthansa's highly selective school, he started his business career there in 1994 as a personnel recruiter. His rapid rise included a stint in 1995-98 as assistant to then-CEO Juergen Weber. Spohr headed Lufthansa's cargo business and the passenger airline business before succeeding Christoph Franz as CEO on May 1, 2014.Spohr's stewardship of the company has centered on cutting costs in the face of competition from lower-cost carriers such as Ryanair and EasyJet on short routes within Europe, and on international routes from government-connected airlines from the Person Gulf region: Etihad, Qatar Airways, and Emirates.One major response has involved Germanwings taking over short-range flights outside the company's international hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. Additionally, Lufthansa's Eurowings division will adopt some of Germanwings budget seating practices - such as "basic" seating with no free checked bags or food - on long-range routes starting this fall.Lufthansa lost 732 million euros ($785 million) under German accounting rules last year due to an increase in pension liabilitiess and paid no dividend, although it turned an operating profit of 954 million euros excluding financial items. Revenue was flat at 30 billion euros. Spohr has said operating earnings aren't enough to pay for the investements in aircraft and premium services the airline needs to make to compete. Airlline analysts say insurance should cover the financial losses from the crash. The company said insurers have set aside 300 million euros, and the company offered to immediately pay 50,000 euros to victims' survivors.Another factor in Spohr's favor is that he's been in the job so little time - a change now would only increase the turmoil.Yet crashes can prove to be the prelude to departure - if they are seen to expose underlying problems.Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, is stepping down April 30 after a year that has pushed the company to the brink of bankruptcy - in 2014, the airline suffered the double tragedy of having one of its planes disappear with 239 people during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and another shot down, apparently by pro-Russian separatists, over eastern Ukraine as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.And Air France-KLM CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon left the company in 2011, two years after Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic. Safety experts raised questions about pilot training after the plane stalled at high altitude and the crew was unable to recover before it hit the water.
Media makes spectacle of mental illness, Germanwings tragedy
Peter Dissinger | Staff Columnist April 6, 2015-student life
Germanwings Flight 9525 was not supposed to crash—there were no thunderstorms in the area, no unexpected missile strikes, no international terrorists on board. For around 24 hours after the plane went silent, the media was dumbfounded. A controlled descent directly into the Alps simply seemed too bizarre to be explained by mechanical failure or weather. But then came the first and second black boxes and with it, a new suspect—co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.After finding that he was at the helm of the plane when it crashed, the media rushed to the emerging story. They found a history of mental illness that was hidden from German wings well enough for the company to allow him to continue flying. From there came the transcript of communication in the cockpit, more details about Lubitz’s life and even a reported video showing passengers screaming in the main cabin. Germanwings has done all it can to control the investigation of Lubitz and ensure that this kind of disaster will not happen in future years, but the media continues to press on, publishing story after story about any bit of information they find on Lubitz.The exposed story of Lubitz’s private life is not a surprising development given our culture of exhaustive investigation and our desire to know everything. If there is any computer data that reveals anything reminiscent of suicidal tendencies—in this case, doctor’s notes excusing him from work—newspapers will expose it. As a human being, Lubitz should at the least be spared the posthumous misery of being exhumed by every international news publication without any conclusive story on his life. Yes, he is a mass murderer, but is it our right to know his exact mental illness or challenge his ability to fly? There is an investigation designed to do just that, so why do we spend our time positing Lubitz’s exact motives? It’s a terrible occurrence and the public deserves to know the bare minimum of what occurred in those fateful 50 minutes from takeoff to crash, but it has all been taken too far. Now, the media is using hazy information to perpetuate stereotypes about mental illness and antagonize Lubitz in an unfair fashion.When a German newspaper released what it claimed was the transcript from the cockpit, the French accident investigation agency involved in the Flight 9525 case called it a dismaying leak of information. News outlets disseminated that the pilot was screaming “Open the damn door,” and that the people in the cabin could be heard screaming in fear. This data is extremely important for the airlines involved and the safety agencies designed to prevent these incidents. Further, transcripts are often released to the public, as happened with the crash of Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. But that needs to be done at the discretion of whatever aviation bodies are involved in the investigation, which is exactly the opposite of what happened with Germanwings Flight 9525.While the release of the transcript was troubling enough, now European news outlets are claiming that they have obtained footage of the main cabin during the final descent of Flight 9525 into the Alps. According to the Daily Mail, the video only lasts a few seconds and is very blurry, but passengers can be heard screaming “God help us” in a variety of languages. You could argue that any video that surfaces is harmless, but there’s something inherently wrong about disseminating media that shows people close to their deaths, screaming for help. It’s my belief that this kind of evidence, on the same line as the transcript, needs to be kept private in the immediate aftermath of the crash. It’s disrespectful to the victims’ families and does absolutely nothing for the public except inspire feelings of fear and terror.Like so many other international news stories and airline crashes, the media has overblown coverage of this crash, and it’s about time they back off. While Germanwings has handled the crash with dignity, respect for the victims and absolute cooperation, the media has dug deeply into the story of a troubled man, which the public has absolutely no right to know. Yes, we should know that Andreas Lubitz deliberately lowered the plane and was too easily able to commit suicide as a co-pilot. But the second we enter into the territory of Lubitz’s troubled life or even what exactly happened on that plane, the media is ultimately betraying journalistic integrity.
Investigators finished at Germanwings Flight 9525 crash site-Posted 3:50 PM, April 5, 2015, by CNN Wire
MARSEILLE, France (CNN) — Investigators have collected all the main evidence from the site where Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed, a French national police official told CNN on Saturday.Investigators are not expected to return to the crash site, said Capt. Yves Naffrechoux of the High Mountain Gendarmerie. The plane crashed March 24 in rugged terrain of the Alps about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the town of Seyne-les-Alpes.“All the police investigators have left the (Germanwings) crash site,” he said. “There is only a private security company ensuring security around the crash site so that no one can go there.”The security firm will guard the site until the remaining debris is collected and taken to secure locations for further analysis, if necessary, he said.The flight data recorder, or “black box,” was found Thursday by a member of the recovery team. The cockpit voice recorder was found days after the crash.In addition, out of more than 2,000 DNA samples collected from the crash site, lab workers have isolated 150 DNA profiles, said Brice Robin, Marseilles prosecutor. The crash killed all 150 people on board.Brice Robin, Marseilles prosecutor, said authorities have found 470 personnel effects at the site. That number includes 40 cell phones, though all those were badly damaged. Robin cast doubt that any useful information could be retrieved from those phones, given their condition.Authorities say the flight’s co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, locked the captain out of the cockpit and engineered the plane’s demise.Initial tests on the flight data recorder show that Lubitz purposely used the controls to speed up the plane’s descent, according to the French air accident investigation agency, the BEA.It also has emerged that Lubitz had battled depression years before he took the controls of Flight 9525 and that he had concealed from his employer recent medical leave notes saying he was unfit for work.CNN’s Margot Haddad reported from Marseille, and Greg Botelho wrote from Atlanta. CNN’s Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.