Co-Pilot possibly Crashed Germanwings A320 deliberately

The co-pilot of the Germanwings airliner that crashed within the French Alps killing all a hundred and fifty humans aboard appears to have introduced the A320 Airbus down deliberately, the Marseille prosecutor said on Thursday.

German Andreas Lubitz, 28, left in sole control of the Airbus A320 after the captain left the cockpit, refused to re-open the door and operated a manage that despatched the plane into its very last, fatal descent, the prosecutor told a information conference.

The stated Lubitz was now not known as a terrorist and there were no grounds to recall the crash as a terrorist incident. Recordings recommended passengers’ screams started out simply before the final impact, he stated.

in advance, a German state prosecutor had said that simply one of the two pilots of the Germanwings airliner became within the cockpit at the time it went down.

The statements came after the the big apple times stated that “black field” recordings confirmed one of the pilots had left the cockpit and couldn't get lower back in before the aircraft crashed.

“One was inside the cockpit and the other wasn’t,” Christoph Kumpa at the prosecutors’ workplace in Duesseldorf told Reuters by telephone, including that the records got here from investigators in France.

Investigators were nevertheless reading voice recordings from one of the “black containers” on Thursday even as the quest endured for a 2nd day inside the ravine where the plane crashed, one hundred km (65 miles) from satisfactory.

The recordings did now not make clear why the pilot left the cockpit or why he couldn't regain entry as the plane steadily descended toward a mountain variety in a far off place of the French Alps on Tuesday.

“the guy outdoor is knocking lightly at the door and there's no solution,” an investigator defined most effective as a senior French army reliable advised the the big apple instances, mentioning the recordings. “after which he hits the door stronger and no solution. there is by no means an answer.”

“you may pay attention he is trying to damage the door down,” the investigator added.

‘Very clean, Very Cool’

The cockpit audio had confirmed “very clean, very cool” conversation between the pilots within the early a part of the flight.

“We don’t realize but the cause why one of the guys went out,” the legit stated. “however what's certain is that at the very end of the flight, the alternative pilot is by myself and does now not open the door.”

A spokesman for Germanwings’ proprietor Lufthansa stated: “We have no statistics from the government that confirms this record and we are in search of more information. we can no longer take part in hypothesis on the causes of the crash.”

It showed that the principle pilot had over 6,000 hours of flying time, at the same time as the greater junior co-pilot had simply 630 hours and were with Germanwings due to the fact that September 2013.

In France, the interior and protection ministries said they had no facts at the newspaper record. Lufthansa introduced it would preserve a briefing for later in the day.

France’s BEA air research bureau turned into now not to be had for comment. On Wednesday, it said it turned into too early to draw meaningful conclusions on why the aircraft went down.

“we've got no longer but been capable of observe and to establish an actual timing for all the sounds and phrases heard on this record,” BEA director Remi Jouty advised a news convention.

Jouty predicted the first fundamental evaluation in days but warned that the examine-out may be difficulty to mistakes and that greater paintings might be wanted for a complete interpretation.

post-Sept. 11 regulations

The BEA said the plane began descending a minute after attaining cruising height and lost altitude for over 9 mins. The pilot’s last words to the ground confirmed the subsequent navigational waypoint, ending with a name-signal and “thank you.”

Pilots can also temporarily depart the cockpit at certain times and in sure circumstances, such whilst the aircraft is cruising, in keeping with German aviation regulation.

Lufthansa stated that its cockpit doors may be opened from the outside with a code, in step with policies brought after the 9-11 attacks. however, the code system may be blocked from inside the cockpit, in step with an Airbus promotional video published online and confirmed by way of the plane maker.

The BEA on Wednesday already dominated out a mid-air explosion and stated the situation did not appear to be a depressurization.

It also noted that the airliner had flown in a directly line at once into the mountain, but had no phrase on whether that appeared to be at the hand of a pilot or vehicle-pilot.

Germanwings said 72 Germans were killed within the first primary air passenger disaster on French soil since the 2000 Concorde coincidence just out of doors Paris. Madrid revised down on Thursday the variety of Spanish sufferers to 50 from 51 formerly.

as well as Germans and Spaniards, sufferers covered 3 americans, a Moroccan and residents of england, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Iran and the Netherlands, officials said. however, DNA exams to perceive them may want to take weeks, the French authorities said.

The families of sufferers were being flown to Marseille on Thursday before being taken up to the sector near the crash website. Chapels had been organized for them with a view of the mountain wherein their cherished ones died.