At 14:09 27 March 2015, wrote:
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 6:30:05 AM UTC-5, Paul T wrote:
At 16:09 26 March 2015, wrote:
I'm very much saddened to have just learned the Andreas
Lubitz,=20
the 28-
old=3D
who deliberately seems to have flown the A 320 into the=20
mountains started
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flying in a Glider Club (Montabaur). He was still a member
and=20
renewed his
=3D
glider license in 2014 that he had since his teenage-years.
If=20
confirmed,
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this mass murderer is a stain on what we all believe is a=20
brotherhood of
et=3D
hical and morals-driven individuals. Using Occam's Razor,
the=20
explanation
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given by the French prosecutors this morning is highly likely.
I'm further troubled that this horrible act ended precisely on
what=20
the
Fre=3D
nch call "Le Parcours", a much beloved mountain range that
allows=20
fast and
=3D
long North-South glider flights along the French Alps. I had
a=20
wonderful
gl=3D
ider vacation in Barcelonnette, a couple of km from the crash
site. =20
This
i=3D
s all very sad. It must multiply the pain of the survivors of
those=20
on
boa=3D
rd.

Herb

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One of the most idiotic posts I have seen in a long time.
1) Not all the facts are out yet -your jumping the gun about
this=20
young man.
2) Just because your a glider pilot does not make you whiter
than=20
white or make you in any way any ethically or morally superior
to=20
any other human being on this planet- indeed many glider
pilots=20
have been complicit in the past either directly or indirectly with
the=20
deaths of many, many more people than this. Whether you
feel=20
these deaths were justifiable depends usually on your politics.
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Personally it saddens me that mankind has not yet reached
the=20
stage where it cannot find other resolutions than violence to
sort out=20
differences, and can take a thing such as beautiful as flight and
use=20
it has a method of death and destruction. One can only hope
the=20
human race will one day grow up, before it annihilates itself.

Paul, if holding yourself and the people you associate with to a
high
stand=
ard is idiotic then yes, I'm an idiot. Thanks for the name-calling
btw,
ve=
ry classy. Mankind has proven that it can "weaponize" nearly
every
seeming=
ly peaceful activity and flying gliders cannot be exempted. If
confirmed
fu=
rther by facts, the copilot's name will be added to the roster of
mass-murd=
erers and suicide bombers. The families of the victims, already
numb with
p=
ain, will be scarred for life by this crime.


Did not call you an idiot - I don't know you to make that judgement
- called your post idiotic.

I will reiterate. Just because your a glider pilot does not make you
in any way any ethically or morally superior to any other human
being on this planet, which appears to be you assumption.
Gliderpilot or not we are all fallible to the same weaknesses. I have
seen the full gamut of personality types in gliding that I have seen
in the wider world and if one thing that history has taught me is
that mankind is capable of the most incredibly heinous acts,
'gliderpilots' included.

I'm sorry but the ability to fly a motorless plane around the sky does
not grant you 'superpowers or a higher moral enlightenment', or
entrance into some' mythical brotherhood of superior beings' - as
you would seem to infer - that's just B/S.

Whilst this is an incredibly sad occurrence and one can feel for the
families affected, I will not condemn this young man, has you have
done - trail by media whilst common these days, is not my thing, I
would rather wait until all the facts are out - if indeed they ever will
be.. . and then try to understand not blame, banish, or condemn -
because ultimately that gets you no where.