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Chilling details of the final minutes of Germanwings flight revealed by a French prosecutor show the plane’s co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally sent the Airbus into its descent into a mountain. Audio recording captured victims’ last minutes. The black box recordings indicate the 28-year-old co-pilot locked the pilot outside the cockpit, presumably when the pilot left to go to the washroom. “He knocked to asked to be let into the cockpit there was no response from the copilot” said Brice Robin, Marseille Public Prosecutor. The pilot pounded on the door to get back in as Lubitz manually and “intentionally” drove the plane into the mountainside.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke about the tragedy today. “This is hard to comprehend for most people. Nobody can imagine this.”
Andreas Lubitz had logged 630 hours in the air. Cartsen Spohr is the CEO of Lufthansa – which owns Germanwings. He says Andreas Lubitz was 100 percent fit to fly. “His flight performance was perfect. There was nothing to worry about.”
As police gather at what’s believed to be Lubitz’s home, victims families begin to travel to the site of the crash. And a moment of silence today outside the German high school which lost 16 students and two teachers in the disaster.
