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Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Plane, Says Prosecutor
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 26, 2015 | Robert Wall and Inti Landauro

Posted on 03/26/2015 5:21:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have deliberately crashed the plane after he was left alone in the cockpit, according to a French prosecutor.

The captain was intentionally locked outside minutes before the A320 crashed into an alpine mountain ridge, French Prosecutor Brice Robin said Thursday. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, a 28-year-old German national, was silent throughout the plane’s descent and was alive at the point of impact, according to the prosecutor.

Mr. Robin’s conclusions are drawn from the plane’s cockpit voice recorder, recovered at the crash site in the French Alps late Tuesday and analyzed by French accident investigators on Wednesday.

The recording contains screams believed to be from passengers, once they recognized the plane was crashing.

Investigators are now exploring why Flight 9525 went into its unauthorized descent from its 38,000-foot cruising altitude with one crew member absent. The descent led to the crash about 10 minutes later.

French air accident investigators said on Wednesday they extracted information from the jet’s cockpit voice recorder. The recording contained voices and other sounds, said Rémi Jouty, director of France’s aviation accident investigation office, which is leading the probe. He added that there was no explanation yet for why the plane went down.

Germanwings, the low-fare unit of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, hasn’t disclosed the identity of the pilots....

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4u9525; 9525; germanwings; lubitz; planecrash; terrorism
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To: McGruff
Officials say co-pilot in Germanwings crash trained in Goodyear, Ariz. - @abc15

That is where Lufthansa has their flight academy.
121 posted on 03/26/2015 6:57:58 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

Now we know.................


122 posted on 03/26/2015 6:58:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: wtd
Possibly also known as Muhammad something?

Germany has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe after France. Approximately 3.0 to 3.5 million Muslims live in Germany, and 80% of them do not have German citizenship; 608,000 are German citizens.1 100,000 of them are German converts to Islam.2 Recent statistics show a continuing increase in their numbers
http://www.euro-islam.info/country-profiles/germany/

123 posted on 03/26/2015 6:59:57 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog ("Islam is Islam. There are no modifiers. It's a political movement masquerading as a religion.")
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To: Red Badger

Yup. the only questions that remain revolve around, gay, muslim, etc.


124 posted on 03/26/2015 7:00:31 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: mware

They shut his facebook page down.


125 posted on 03/26/2015 7:01:16 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: noone
Germanwings crash trained

I didn't know pilots needed to learn how to crash.

126 posted on 03/26/2015 7:01:28 AM PDT by McGruff (Boy that Ted Cruz sure is catching alot of flak.)
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To: maggief; All

No one has pointed out that pilot credentials can be stolen; see the link below. If no one knew this copilot by sight, perhaps he was killed and his credentials used by a terrorist.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-pilot-sentenced-27-months-prison-stealing-us-pilot-s-identity-obtain-federal-aviation


127 posted on 03/26/2015 7:02:35 AM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (everything written by me on FR is my personal opinion & does not represent my employer)
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To: Flick Lives

The Captain has an emergency access code to gain entry when the cockpit door is locked. It can be intentionally disabled from within the cockpit.


128 posted on 03/26/2015 7:04:54 AM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Three cities come up in the history of this co-pilot so far:


129 posted on 03/26/2015 7:09:17 AM PDT by wtd
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To: SE Mom; WildHighlander57; maggief; LucyT; Liz

Fox reported he had a FB page but it has been taken down. Is it available on “wayback”?
Makes me question what they are keeping from us: Names from a cell? ( either nazi or muslim? Iirc they worked together during WWII)
Doing investigation and not giving his “friends” a heads up would make it less conspicuous before rounding up.


130 posted on 03/26/2015 7:10:19 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: JoyjoyfromNJ

Co-pilot lived with parents, keeping a flat in Duesseldorf.

I read his parents have been questioned, and police have Montabaur under guard.


131 posted on 03/26/2015 7:11:19 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I am feeling extremely sad for these 150 passengers and crew.
Prayers for the families and victims.
RIP for all.

Lufthansa is now going to be in major legal hurt mode now....


132 posted on 03/26/2015 7:13:39 AM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

133 posted on 03/26/2015 7:15:35 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: wtd

see my link at #127 re stolen pilot credentials used in the US. I agree there is a strong aroma of the religion of pieces. I keep remembering Lockerbie and how no one wanted to admit it was terrorism. Took years of investigation.


134 posted on 03/26/2015 7:16:18 AM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (everything written by me on FR is my personal opinion & does not represent my employer)
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To: maggief
Translation from http://www.pi-news.net/2015/03/german-wings-absturz-kapitaen-aus-cockpit-ausgesperrt-suizid-des-co-piloten/

"The West German politicians knew from the beginning that this was not a technical defect , but a deliberately induced guided suicide (for whatever reason) . Because otherwise is not to explain why France has chased 3 interceptor behind the Boeing . They had scared of an attack on a nuclear power plant. Merkel and FRG leaders went on the Ars.h Grundeis that this was an Islamic attack , so the comic reactions of Merkel and FRG politicians . The political elite BRD was in total panic , and was afraid of the consequences !!! Now it will continue as before , Islam = peace , Islam is part of Germany , the Islamization does not occur. But I did not stop an Islam do not rule out anyway, now more than ever! I believe that nothing more ! 7 nuclear facilities within a few minutes of flight http://www.blogs.ausgestrahlt.de/wp-content/upload"

135 posted on 03/26/2015 7:18:16 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog ("Islam is Islam. There are no modifiers. It's a political movement masquerading as a religion.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

[He can be heard breathing, but what is the evidence he was awake and aware of what he was doing?]

The fact that he actively over rode the Captain’s emergency access to the cockpit. The fact that he purposely took the plane out of autopilot and purposely flew it directly into a mountain.


136 posted on 03/26/2015 7:19:33 AM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: JoyjoyfromNJ

“No one has pointed out that pilot credentials can be stolen; see the link below. If no one knew this copilot by sight, perhaps he was killed and his credentials used by a terrorist.”

I was speculating along these lines as well. Did Lubitz fly with this particular crew before?


137 posted on 03/26/2015 7:20:35 AM PDT by Batman11 (The orange, weeping, drunk, squishy oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go!)
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To: fivecatsandadog

100,000 of them are German converts to Islam....

the likelohood that he was a mooselim are fairly high


138 posted on 03/26/2015 7:21:37 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: wtd

Obvious German terror


139 posted on 03/26/2015 7:22:34 AM PDT by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: Tzfat

I’ll rule out ‘gay’ just for starters.

That leaves “muslim, etc.”

The ‘etc’ part could be anything from psychotic to sociopath.
Both kinda rare types.

That just leaves the ‘muslim’ part................


140 posted on 03/26/2015 7:22:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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