"I don't think the pilot's religion is necessarily what's we should be looking for."

Ah. I guess that makes sense. There are a multitude of things to do differently, but a guy who wants to do something like this, will probably take the time to overcome those obstacles.

No, definitely not always. I'll be curious to see what comes of the background check.

 

That's all it would take for you to start killing? That's disturbing.

 

Radical Islam is not bound by nationality, race, ethnicity, or name. The sooner the west wakes up to this fact, the better prepared we can be as a nation.

 

Common sense and basic logic not your forte, huh?

Of course Muslims aren't the only ones who have or do commit terrorist acts...but, they seem to be #1 in recent years.

A recent conversion to islam and then intentionally crashing an airliner into a mountain....nahhhh, there'd be no connection there at all....

 

A medical issue is a possibility - freaky things like that have happened.

As I understand it, here in the US, after 911, it's now mandatory that there has to be 2 in the cockpit at all times - no exceptions. If a pilot has to leave, even for a minute, a flight attendant has to replace him.

 

Protesters say they want to bring back psychological screening for airline pilots. After all driving a plane is not like driving a bus, there needs to be people in perfect psychological condition. And apparenlty some periodical technical checks for airplanes had been reducted too because of the economical recession but in this case it seems it's nothing about technical problems...

 

I'm a far leftist/socialist and I totally agree!

 

otoh,
what if he was a christian?
do we learn something about that religion
from examining evil acts of christians?

 

Seems officials are confident it was intentional going by sound recordings and security system on cockpit door.

If you're right about US policy that sounds smart, if nothing else an attendant could have prevented the co-pilot from actively working keypad preventing the pilot from opening the door.

 

You mean, there hasn't been?! If that's true, that's CRAZY! Not to mention, totally irresponsible of the airlines..... you never know if someone is slowly going off the deep end in his mind, then the day comes when he takes the plunge. Right now, I find that hard to believe.........

One of my brothers was a flight instructor in the USAF for 20 yrs. He told me if a guy was passing the grade, but was a little 'goofy', he washed him out of pilot training. That's how careful he was about who he put in the cockpits.....

 

Imho if a pilot wants to crash into a mountain, he will find a way to do. He knows how the plane works.

 

But you and the liberal horde isn't disturbed that every muslim you encounter believes that if he kills an infidel in the name of islamoism he will get the virgins when he goes to heaven. That means that Iran attacking Israel with nuclear weapons will result in millions of Iranians going right to heaven when Israel retaliates.

 

nice duck

 

never said it would.... I do not even know if a terrorist attack or some guy had a blood clot and was unable to respond, at this point could be anything

.

 

The religion of the person may not be the defining factor of this, but it should absolutely be something that is looked at. We should try to discover every single detail about this person even down to how many times a day the guy took a crap.

 

Why don't you cite all the many terrorist acts that have been carried out in the name of Christ, in the past, oh so, 100+ years. You might have to stretch back a bit farther. Get back to us with your answer.

 

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With out full on discrimination, how do we prevent it in the future ?

 

Well if you know of an international Christian organization that plots to commit terrorist acts in Western countries, we could find out if he is affiliated with it and had contact/orders from this hypothetical organization.

You know those Lutherans and their suicide bombings...

 

But the vast majority of Muslims never kill anyone so either most of them don't actually believe that or most of them have some other moral or social principle holds them back from randomly killing people just for holding different beliefs. That'd be in stark contrast to you, who openly said that all it would only take some casual promise of virgins in heaven to set you off on a targeted killing spree.

 

Not so he reset the autopilot.. Pay attention.. Stop pretending like the information is not out there.

 

Should that be the same requirement if the guy is a Lutheran?

Police are going to talk to his family, friends, and coworkers to determine why he did this just like any crime. The fact that one is speculating that he is a Muslim only impedes the investigation, not help it.

 

The guy is not a Muslim.

what is wrong with you people.

 

There is some evidence now that the pilot was depressed.

We must immediately arrest all the depressed people, or they will KILL US ALL.

Look, that man isn't smiling, GET HIM

 

He being Lutheran should not be a red flag. Last I checked, it was one particular religion that was in the middle of a world wide holy war to establish a theocratic superstate. I'm an atheist and a liberal, but I'm not caving to progressive PC ideology which thinks all religions behave the same. I fight against the Christian right as well, but their battle is more through the courts and legal process. Last I checked, the boys in ISIS aren't too keen on adherence to western law.

 

Day 4 and I'm still not convinced the first officer acted intentionally.

The systems are too complex, where any number of failures, combination of failures - innocent actions could play out the way it has on the voice recorder.

We need to see the flight data recorders information.

No NTSB investigation would push a theory like this French investigator. Premature and unprofessional.

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