Germanwings flight 4U-9525 crashes in France

[ual902]

Wonder if any of the passengers took a video on their smart phone while all this was happening and they find the smart phone in the wreckage? I hope the recovery teams are checking smart phones and cameras.

[TimT]

Wonder if any of the passengers took a video on their smart phone while all this was happening and they find the smart phone in the wreckage? I hope the recovery teams are checking smart phones and cameras.

They're probably checking everyone's social media accounts. Maybe someone posted while it was happening.

[yitzy93]

They're probably checking everyone's social media accounts. Maybe someone posted while it was happening.

Highly doubt there's WiFi or any other connectivity on such a flight...
And if yes it would have long been viral, through friends etc.

[Jkhein]

Wonder if any of the passengers took a video on their smart phone while all this was happening and they find the smart phone in the wreckage? I hope the recovery teams are checking smart phones and cameras.

Yup
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/31/europe/france-germanwings-plane-crash-main/

[Marco Polo]

Seems likeLH designated 300 million to deal with this.

[Achas Veachas]

Yup
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/31/europe/france-germanwings-plane-crash-main/

Nuts!

[Dan]

How is it that my cell phone cracks when I drop it, but a cell phone survived a 500mph crash?

[Achas Veachas]

How is it that my cell phone cracks when I drop it, but a cell phone survived a 500mph crash?

Most have been a Nokia

But seriously, who said the phone survived? Maybe the video had to be recovered from a smashed SD card?

[avrumy22]

How is it that my cell phone cracks when I drop it, but a cell phone survived a 500mph crash?

if the  black box is indestructible, why dont they make the whole plane from that stuff? 

[chucksterace]

How is it that my cell phone cracks when I drop it, but a cell phone survived a 500mph crash?

Otterbox.

[Something Fishy]

You'd be surprised how resilient some memory cards are. I've put some through the wash and they're working fine to this day.

[ual902]

Wonder if any of the passengers took a video on their smart phone while all this was happening and they find the smart phone in the wreckage? I hope the recovery teams are checking smart phones and cameras.

Video captures terror aboard doomed Germanwings flight:

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/world/video-shows-terror-aboard-doomed-germanwings-flight-article-1.2168509

[Chapshnell]

now LH finds a 2009 email showing he admits to being depressed 

[Achas Veachas]

So now they found the second black box, the Flight Data Recorder:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/europe/france-germanwings-plane-crash-main/