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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: Red Badger

But, when the Kreuznach is executed properly...well, c’est magnifique!

Don’t forget the mustard, mon ami!.


61 posted on 03/26/2015 6:17:42 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: bigdaddy45

There’s a reason why he took 149 lives with him.

Who was the other American onboard?


62 posted on 03/26/2015 6:18:41 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...there are no indications that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, had “any kind of terrorist background”, the Reuters news agency reports."

Maybe not (yet), but then they thought Bowe Bergdahl was just an innocent who was kidnapped, too.

63 posted on 03/26/2015 6:18:46 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Never buy Kreuznach from a street vendor.....................


64 posted on 03/26/2015 6:18:58 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: lodi90

No he would not. He would be flying Dash 8s.


65 posted on 03/26/2015 6:20:21 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Rennes Templar
I don't think he was a Muslim; someone posted earlier that after seeing the picture of him in San Fransisco his “gaydar” went off. I tend to agree, Muslims are not known for their acceptance of homosexuals.....
66 posted on 03/26/2015 6:20:48 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: maggief

There were two Americans, a mother and college-age daughter. The mother was an aviation intelligence analyst.


67 posted on 03/26/2015 6:21:03 AM PDT by livius
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To: noiseman

I agree- no question. If not an “act of terror”, this guy was on a suicide mission.

This is just so unbelievably horrible. Those poor passengers had to be terrified, once they realized what was happening.


68 posted on 03/26/2015 6:21:28 AM PDT by Shelayne
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To: Red Badger

Certainment!

My wife was born in Bad Constadt.
There is absolutely no going back from that, once it is Bad.


69 posted on 03/26/2015 6:21:53 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Red Badger; Gamecock

Hey...good joke...but aside from that, and looking at your tagline, the name ‘bad kreuznach’ should be of interest to you.

As I understand it, Bad Kreuznach is the ‘baths’ (bad) at the ‘place of the kreuz’ or CROSS.

Apparently, in Roman times along the southern side of the Rhine, there were Christians among those soldiers.


70 posted on 03/26/2015 6:21:59 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: exit82

Check to see if he owned a gun!

This would provide additional ammunition for the gun control crowd!


71 posted on 03/26/2015 6:22:46 AM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Pics of young Andreas are on another FR thread.

Pegs the needle on the gaydar.

Either a lover’s spat, or he got outed and was about to lose his job and decided to go out in a flame of glory.

Cannot discount that possibility - although he may have also been a recent convert.


72 posted on 03/26/2015 6:23:01 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: livius

Reported earlier.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/emergency-responders-resume-surveying-remote-alpine-crash-site/2015/03/25/a5a6d974-d26b-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html

3 Americans on jet that crashed in Alps, Germanwings CEO says


73 posted on 03/26/2015 6:23:55 AM PDT by maggief
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To: martinidon

See my post #72, I concur.


74 posted on 03/26/2015 6:24:02 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: martinidon

Obama


75 posted on 03/26/2015 6:24:03 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: lodi90

“I doubt a 28 year old would be flying an airbus of a US airline.”

They do. It is not uncommon. In fact, airlines prefer to get pilots as young as possible for cost reasons and because they haven’t picked up bad habits they have to unlearn from someplace else.


76 posted on 03/26/2015 6:24:47 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: xzins

Hmmmmmm...Barry has an active membership at this place?

http://manscountrychicago.com/


77 posted on 03/26/2015 6:25:11 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: mware

They have already taken down that fb page!


78 posted on 03/26/2015 6:26:27 AM PDT by txgirl4Bush (Impeach obama)
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To: Travis McGee

If he’s not an actual Muslim, I declare him an Honorary Muslim.


79 posted on 03/26/2015 6:26:36 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Flick Lives

The French news conference had this question. The response is that the plane was on auto pilot. To begin the descent you would have to turn and turn and turn the wheel, not just a little eg if you passed out and you nudged the wheel.

The man is breathing normally.

Secondly, the pilot can unlock or lock the door from within. If he puts it on “lock” you cannot enter with the pass code.

In the USA someone must be in the seat if a pilot leaves. This is not the case in Europe.


80 posted on 03/26/2015 6:26:37 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("The enemy of your enemy is your enemy!" B. Netanyahu)
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