Cockpit

An airplane with Deputy Prime Minister Krassimir Karachanov and other members of the government on board had an emergency landing in Vienna. The machine was flying from Brussels to Sofia.

"What happened was that the windscreen of the cockpit broke.

Undoubtedly the highlight of the October 28 National “OCHI Day” celebrations in Thessaloniki was the incredible demonstration put on by airforce major Sotiris Stralis in his Zeus f-16 Block-52 fighter jet over the skies of the city. The breath-taking visuals from his cockpit were captured on video.

This is neither the cockpit of a supersonic aircraft nor the cockpit of a space shuttle. It is the bridge of Stril Luna vessel.

Stril Luna was designed by Rolls-Royce and its bridge is equipped with a system that they call a “Unified Bridge,” an ergonomic concept for ship management which incorporates the latest technology!

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who reportedly crashed an Airbus en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf into a French Alps mountainside, had received treatment for suicidal tendencies prior to obtaining his commercial pilot's license.

Dusseldorf prosecutor Ralf Herrenbruck said the co-pilot had been in "psycho-therapeutic treatment with a noted suicide risk over a long period."

New pieces of evidence emerge regarding the appalling Germanwings tragedy.

According to the ''Bild'', the 28 year old murdering pilot kept trying to get the pilot out of the aircraft cockpit, in an attempt to lock himself in and go on with his deadly scheme unencumbered.

The captain of a passenger jet that investigators believe was deliberately crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard, shouted at the co-pilot to "open the damn door" as he made desperate attempts to return to the locked cockpit, a German newspaper reported March 29.
 

As airlines struggle to come to terms with the loss of 150 human lives in the crash of Germanwings plane in the French Alps, reports have started to emerge that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 28, had been battling mental health problems.

The Germanwings co-pilot said to have deliberately crashed his Airbus with 149 others aboard into the French Alps suffered serious depression six years ago, German daily Bild reported March 27.
      

The tragic irony from Germanwings crash in the French Alps this week, assuming that the scenario of the co-pilot's reckless suicide proves the most prevalent, is the fact that the impassable cockpit door was a result of safety measures instituted after 9/11.

Brice Robin, the Marseille public prosecutor, told a press conference that the co-pilot of the Germanwings jet that went down in the French Alps, killing 150 people, had crashed the plane deliberately.