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The 28-year-old co-pilot of the Germanwings flight which crashed in the Alps appears to have brought down the plane deliberately
Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:26
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The co-pilot of a plane which crashed in the Alps activated the descent button and refused to open the cockpit door to the pilot.
Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin says the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, 28, was alone at the controls of the Germanwings flight and “intentionally” sent the plane into the doomed descent.
He said that the crew member – who won a Federal Aviation Authority award in 2013 – wanted to “destroy the plane”.
He said: “We assume the (captain) went to the loo or something. The co-pilot is on his own in charge of the plane, and it is while he is alone that he uses the flight monitoring system which starts the descent of the plane.”
The flight monitoring system cannot be accidentally triggered, he added …. http://news.sky.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-28-year-old-co-pilot-of-germanwings.html
