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The Germanwings jetliner did not issue a distress call during its rapid descent
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:34
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The Germanwings jetliner did not issue a distress call during its rapid descent in the French Alps, the Directorate General for Civil Aviation said.
“The aircraft did not itself make a distress call, but it was the combination of the loss of radio contact and the aircraft's descent which led the controller to implement the distress phase,” a spokesman for the French aviation regulator was cited as saying by Reuters.
The “distress” phase is the third and most serious of three stages of alerts used to help coordinate rescue efforts when an aircraft is considered to be in difficulty …. http://rt.com
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