Photos were released today of the copilot who murdered 149 people on a Germanwings Airbus A320.
The copilot would not let the pilot back into the cockpit after he left to use the restroom.
28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz trained in the Phoenix, Arizona and is pictured here in San Francisco.
According to a prosecutor, co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have deliberately crashed the plane
The Daily Mail reported:
The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to ‘destroy the plane’, it was sensationally revealed today.
French prosecutor Brice Robin gave further chilling details of the final ten minutes in the cockpit before the Airbus A320 plunged into the French Alps killing 150 people.
Revealing data extracted from the black box voice recorder, he said the co-pilot – 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz – locked his captain out after the senior officer left the cockpit.
At that point, Lubitz used the flight managing system to put the plane into a descent, something that can only be done manually – and deliberately.
He said: ‘The intention was to destroy the plane. Death was instant. The plane hit the mountain at 700kmh (430mph).
‘I don’t think that the passengers realised what was happening until the last moments because on the recording you only hear the screams in the final seconds’.
In the US if a pilot leaves the cockpit a flight attendant is required to wait in the cockpit until the missing pilot returns.
