Posted on 03/26/2015 7:25:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it was sensationally revealed today.
French prosecutor Brice Robin gave further chilling details of the final ten minutes in the cockpit before the Airbus A320 plunged into the French Alps killing 150 people.
Revealing data extracted from the black box voice recorder, he said the co-pilot - named as 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz - locked his captain out after the senior officer left the cockpit.
At that point, Lubitz used the flight managing system to put the plane into a descent, something that can only be done manually - and deliberately.
He said: 'The intention was to destroy the plane. Death was instant. The plane hit the mountain at 700kmh (430mph).
'I don't think that the passengers realised what was happening until the last moments because on the recording you only hear the screams in the final seconds'.
arlier in the flight, Mr Brice said Lubitz's responses, initially courteous, became 'curt' when the captain began the mid-flight briefing on the planned landing of the plane.
The captain - named by local media as German father-of-two Patrick Sonderheimer - then left the cockpit but found himself locked out when he tried to re-enter.
Mr Robin said: 'We hear the pilot asking the co-pilot to take over and we hear the sound of a chair being pushed back and a door closing so we assume that the captain went to the toilet or something.
So the co-pilot is on his own, and it is while he's on his own that the co-pilot is in charge of the plane and uses the flight management system to start the descent of the plane.
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Homicidal ideation.
He just took it one step further from the fantasy stage.
Just a bet....we will find that he’s a gamer somewhere along the way....just a hunch.
I wonder why the gradual descent rather than a nose-down plummet? Extend the terror for the passengers? Is there something built into the controls to disallow such an action?
I would bet he was recently converted to Islam ...just a guess.
More likely it was to prevent the pax from realizing something’s wrong until it was too late to do anything about it.
Just joy. Now, no one is going to want to fly not knowing whether the pilots are crackpots or not. How stupid. Wonder what caused him to take all of those innocent people with him instead of just jumping in front of a train?
I wonder if he was a homosexual?...sounds like a very emotional way to kill everyone
He decided to play chicken with a mountain. the mountain didn’t swerve. Suicide by plane. He took a lot of people with him, though. The lake of fire has a new swimmer today, and his name is Andreas Lubitz.
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Would not surprise me.
A gamer?
You mean like a chess player or something?
Too much soccer?
I don’t get it , brah.
Bring back either a third pilot, flight engineer or navigator so no lone individual is ever left alone on the flight deck or simply put a bathroom in the cockpit so either or never leave the cockpit. Were it my airline .....my opinion.
ya think
Who knows. Another sicko and 9.9 times out of 10, these nuts are Muzzies.
If he recently converted to the ROP that would explain it. Or recently had a sex-change operation.
It appears to be a case of suicide/mass murder.
If not terrorism this guy had some real internal bad issues.
Trust me. There will be a plethora of regulations, government mandates that will cost the airlines millions and millions, and even more checks for the pilots toads to the stress of the job. In the end there will still be a way for a deranged person to crash an airplane.
Maybe he was upset about his receding hairline.
Toads= that adds
Not just San Francisco; I visited there and loved the scenery! A lot of normal guys have that slight build and look. It’s the nature of the crime, senseless and dramtic and punishing a lot of innocent people. If he is not a terrorist, sounds like angry gay?
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