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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: Flick Lives
I would imagine this would be standard procedure to keep the cabin door locked sort security purposes. I'm a bit surprised the captain would not have a key. Can the door only be opened from inside?

There is a double lock from the inside. One allows entry from outside with a code, when the other is locked, no code or entry.
81 posted on 03/26/2015 6:27:01 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is horrifying. I have no words. Those poor people.


82 posted on 03/26/2015 6:27:32 AM PDT by grimalkin (We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Red Badger
Prosecutor says he does not believe disaster was terrorism or suicide

WTH? For sure it was some kind of suicide.

83 posted on 03/26/2015 6:28:13 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Old Sarge

:: or he got outed and was about to lose his job ::

Lose his job...?...for being a sodomite? Shirley, you jest.

Dude, you know that ain’t true given the EuroWeenie ethos. If anything, he would have been summarily advanced according to his “cultural bravery”.


84 posted on 03/26/2015 6:28:31 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: xzins

Bad = bath
Kreuz = cross
nach = after

It may mean that after you crossed the river there you need a bath?.............


85 posted on 03/26/2015 6:29:12 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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To: Cincinatus' Wife; SE Mom; ken5050; Tzfat
Legit?

Twitter:


86 posted on 03/26/2015 6:30:43 AM PDT by maggief
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To: ecomcon

He has to say that at this time until he has absolute proof, other wise he may endanger his case if it proves to be a conspiratorial mass murder. And ‘accomplices’ could then claim he did it all by himself without any input on their part........................


87 posted on 03/26/2015 6:31:04 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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The AFP news agency reports that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, was registered as a member of a private flying club in Germany, LSC Westerwald, and was a runner who took part in local races, according to public records. This is a screengrab of what is believed to be his Facebook profile.

Facebook page of Andreas Lubitz

88 posted on 03/26/2015 6:32:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: maggief

That one looks legit. It has a picture of a Beach Bonanza. Only a pilot would know that is the Lufthansa academy training aircraft.


89 posted on 03/26/2015 6:32:29 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Red Badger

‘ceptin’ that kreutz refers to the cross of crucifiction, not a physical act of “crossing” some geological feature; noun v. verb, in this case.


90 posted on 03/26/2015 6:32:50 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: wtd

He can be heard breathing, but what is the evidence he was awake and aware of what he was doing? Can he be heard moving around, touching things? Plus does the door lock itself?


91 posted on 03/26/2015 6:33:19 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 15 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

No guten guten from Baden Baden................


92 posted on 03/26/2015 6:33:20 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: Old Sarge

My guess- Homo who recently found out he has AIDS and can’t pass his upcoming flight physical, which means his flying career is over. Flying is everything to him. He decides to go full tilt Raging Drama Queen and take out everyone with him.


93 posted on 03/26/2015 6:33:45 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: Tzfat
Article in the Daily Mail..off Drudge link..says that when the captain began the briefing about the landing in Dusseldorff, the co-pilots responses became "curt"..shortly after the capt left the flight deck..

Interesting...but hard to tell what it means..could be French translators missing context..or much more..that was the trigger moment..

94 posted on 03/26/2015 6:35:44 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: GrandJediMasterYoda

95 posted on 03/26/2015 6:37:09 AM PDT by wtd
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Kreuz is used for Autobahn Interchanges as well..............what we call ‘cloverleafs’...............


96 posted on 03/26/2015 6:37:10 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: blam

We’d be bigots for even thinking it was a muslim!


97 posted on 03/26/2015 6:38:19 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Tzfat; SE Mom; ken5050

Reuters Top News @Reuters 2m2 minutes ago

BREAKING: Lufthansa CEO says #Germanwings co-pilot had long break in his training six years ago.


98 posted on 03/26/2015 6:39:37 AM PDT by maggief
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To: TADSLOS

:: My guess- Homo who recently found out he has AIDS and can’t pass his upcoming flight physical ::

Possibly but why would he not simply rent a Piper and drive that into the ground? AIDS is, in the end, a personal “weapon” that does not require a multitude of lives lost to make a statement.

My money is still on the possibility that the other crew member in the cockpit was found to be “involved” with the other-member’s significant other (wife, concubine, boytoy, etc. - and I’m gonna stick with the heterosexual angle for now).
That would explain locking the crew-member out.


99 posted on 03/26/2015 6:41:14 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Exactly.

I’m no doctor but I am SURE there are many “events” that do not disrupt the breathing pattern that much.

Nor, for that matter, do we know if it is absolutely clear. Usually the investigators have to piddle with the sound to pick out things like that.

This is mostly suspicious, but there IS still a possibility this is a horrible accident. I cannot believe they are mouthing off about this so soon. I can’t believe they have this much information so soon. It’s never this easy.


100 posted on 03/26/2015 6:41:14 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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