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In reply to the discussion: Kamikaze Co-Pilot Accused of Mass Murder [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)during the final moments of Flight 9525...terror in unison. That their screams eventually grew loud enough to be heard from all the way back in the cabin to up on the flight deck is just the saddest thing ever.
Like alcibiades_mystery has said, I know the instant a plane I'm sitting in begins its descent...some people paying attention knew and the entire flight crew knew. And like you, I feel incredibly sorry for the captain of such a doomed plane; just imagining what that one person was experiencing brings me to tears, aside from the utter fear of all those passengers.
They were discussing those final minutes before the crash, early this morning on CNN; Chris Cuomo quickly stifled Richard Quest when he suggested exactly what you've said, that the screaming much have reached quite a roar for it to be picked up on the cockpit recorder. Cuomo shifted the rest of that talk to other aspects of the French Prosecutor's press conference, reminding the panel that victim's families could be watching and listening. Then they drug Anderson Cooper out of bed to do the next hour of reporting, I pitied him for such a task.
That Andreas Lubitz loved flying thru all of his short life, had finally gotten his "dream job" only a year and a half ago, makes this incomprehensible...so very hard to understand what exactly could have happened.

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz sits in front of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. Facebook/Reuters