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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....

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4u9525; 9525; germanwings; lubitz; planecrash; terrorism
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Coming soon: Possible depression-act.
Girlfriend left him; Family death; dog died; Silverado pick-up was repossessed.

Wait, that’s an American country song....nevermind.


21 posted on 03/26/2015 5:42:45 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: lodi90
A locked cockpit door can normally be unlocked from outside, apparently. Here the co-pilot deliberately locked him out. That’s not something done after having a stroke or whatever

You're right. I just saw a video to that effect. It looks like there is an override button in the cockpit that could shut off the door override procedure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHxv7bsqbxA

22 posted on 03/26/2015 5:42:57 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: lodi90

He was co-pilot I believe. Not main pilot.


23 posted on 03/26/2015 5:45:36 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
One of two possibilities now:

Islamo Nazi.

Lovers (as in fag) spat.

Obviously the guy was deranged and either of these potentials are predictive of deranged behavior.

24 posted on 03/26/2015 5:45:51 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: SueRae; xzins; kristinn; maggief

On another thread it was mentioned this article may be fake...not sure yet.


25 posted on 03/26/2015 5:49:17 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: lodi90

Well, regardless of his flight hours, it wasn’t incompetence apparently. I doubt it was a health issue also as he was young (28) and you’d expect to hear something (gasping, moaning, etc).

We may never know this guy’s problem. Obviously, deranged and suicidal. Maybe he wanted his 15 minutes of fame? Every now and then someone just goes batsh!t crazy....it happens.


26 posted on 03/26/2015 5:51:51 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: xzins

That is correct.


27 posted on 03/26/2015 5:52:12 AM PDT by Gamecock ("The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing." A.W. Pink)
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To: maggief

But why into a mountain..it would have been easy for him to auger into Nice, or Monaco...and do far more damage...also, in the two other instances of pilots pulling a kamikaze..one in Indonesia, and the other the Egypt Air flight..they both put the planes into steep, near vertical dives..not this controlled descent. It’s curious at best


28 posted on 03/26/2015 5:53:14 AM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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To: Mouton

Seems to be a case of a psycho wanting to go out with a big bang. Columbine shooter type.


29 posted on 03/26/2015 5:54:01 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

I guess I will have to add that to my other 2 possibilities. I think mechanical problems are ruled out for sure now.


30 posted on 03/26/2015 5:55:46 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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First picture: Germanwings co-pilot - 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz (above) - locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it has been revealed
31 posted on 03/26/2015 5:56:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: xzins

I was in Dexheim!


32 posted on 03/26/2015 5:57:06 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: blam

Andreas Lubitz is the murderer.


33 posted on 03/26/2015 5:59:56 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Looks like they are training people to do this type of thing. Probably what happened to that other missing airliner from last year.


34 posted on 03/26/2015 6:00:14 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ken5050; SE Mom

Raises the question if it was due to a passenger(s) on board.

Ex.

http://nypost.com/2015/03/25/two-americans-aboard-crashed-plane-in-france/

Yvonne Selke was a satellite-imagery analyst who worked at Booz Allen Hamilton. She was assigned to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, which analyzes satellite and spy-plane imagery for the military and intelligence communities.

http://www.boozallen.com/media-center/press-releases/2013/03/Booz-to-provide-specialized-scientific-research

March 21, 2013
McLean, VA – Booz Allen Hamilton today announced it received a $315 million single award contract to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) InnoVision Directorate.


35 posted on 03/26/2015 6:01:33 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

You might not be far off.

First thought is Islamic terrorism. Perhaps something will be found out on his computer or phone records to prove this.

Another thought is unrequited love.

Sounds like standard procedure is to have a flight attendant go into the cockpit when the pilot leaves so the co-pilot can stay seated at the controls.

The FA can then open the cockpit door on the pilot’s return.

What if Lubitz killed the FA, and decided to crash the plane because of his crime. Maybe he had a thing for the FA and had been rejected—who knows.

The whole thing about him breathing steadily while pandemonium reigns outside the door shows a person who has decided upon a specific course of action.

The only question is why.

There is more than is being released right now.

It will come out eventually.


36 posted on 03/26/2015 6:01:41 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Germanwings, the low-fare unit of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, hasn’t disclosed the identity of the pilots....

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, a 28-year-old German national

How many pilots were there?...............

37 posted on 03/26/2015 6:05:12 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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German police have been deployed outside Andreas Lubitz’s home in Montabaur, in west Germany.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says there are no indications that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, had “any kind of terrorist background”, the Reuters news agency reports.


38 posted on 03/26/2015 6:05:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: MortMan

Very close to BK. I covered it and a number of other installations when I was a family life chaplain.


39 posted on 03/26/2015 6:06:44 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It -- Those Who Truly Support Our Troops Pray for Their Victory!)
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To: Red Badger

Go to link in Post #31.


40 posted on 03/26/2015 6:07:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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