Very true but I'm speculating as much as everyone else at the moment. It still makes me feel quite upset to think that the screams of the passengers could be heard on the CVR. That isn't common in these kind of situations. Who ever the tech was that was listening to it, has my sympathy.
Unfortunately it's not the first pilot suicide. Unbelievable when you consider that the security cockpit doors, installed after 9/11, were to keep the nutters out of the cockpit. Tragic
Tragedy beyond belief. It makes us all worry everytime we fly. I pray for the souls of all those victims of this act
Wow. That takes some telling. Taking my boy to school at the moment. It is well documented online. I'll try and sumerise it when I'm on my laptop and not on a phone.
It was my birthday, I was only young. News coverage then not like we have today. I remember my parents being more concerned with the news than blowing out candles. I have never forgotten Mortgate so many people lost theirs lives, probably first big disaster of my lifetime.
Here you go Kiwi........ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash Those will give you the full story. Saves me typing out an essay on it. EDIT: What I will add is some of the conclusions come to at the time are definitely questionable in hindsight. But hindsight is a wonderfully horrible thing.
The worst ever train disaster in the UK remains the Harrow and Wealdstone crash in 1952, involving 3 trains and 112 fatalities. I only know about it, because 99 times out of 100 my Dad would have been taking one of those trains to work, but (as he used to tell it) he was hungover and overslept that day. Luckily for him, and me.
That's like the crane operator who was late for the first time in years when the helicopter crashed into it an Chelsea. Fate throws up funny things.
Working overseas at the time I do not recall the Moorgate accident. Here is a link to the detailed accident report:- http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoE_Moorgate1975.pdf Interesting the money he was carrying for the planned car purchase for his daughter after work that day. Evidence to the inquest showed that the driver did not have any reason to be suicidal and had over £270 (about £1700 today)[14] in his pocket which he was intending to use to purchase a car for his daughter after the end of his shift. The coroner's verdict was accidental death.[15] The Department of the Environment report found that there was insufficient evidence to say if the accident was due to a deliberate act or a medical condition.[16] The writer Laurence Marks, whose father died in the disaster, presented a Channel 4 documentary Me, My Dad and Moorgate that was broadcast on 4 June 2006,[17][18] maintaining his personal belief that the crash was suicide.[19] A 2009 BBC Radio 4 In Living Memory episode also suggested that the driver may have lost concentration, or confused the terminus with the closed Essex Road station.[20]
As I said before, a good friend of mine studied it in depth when he worked for LU. That has always been one of his major pointers to it not being suicide.
The evidence is certainly compelling for or against that theory. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cidal-driver-kill-42-innocent-passengers.html
It's now being reported that the co-pilot was receiving medical treatment,and that a torn-up sick note for the day of the crashed flight,has been found at his Dusseldorf flat!
So I see. Slightly worrying that the airlines own procedures didn't pick it up, but if he's hiding things, it's hard to find.
thanks for that QUALITY what I like about not606 is if someone asks a question someone else will always go out of their way to provide an answer
