The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps wanted to “destroy the plane”, French investigators have said.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”C3nSxPzWSiDwlvBBwJXsCmW1eHihlGwy”]French prosecutors, citing information from the cockpit voice recorder said the co-pilot took sole control of plane and intentionally started its descent.<\/p>\n
He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out.<\/p>\n
Mr Robin said there was “absolute silence in the cockpit” as the pilot fought to re-enter it.<\/p>\n
The co-pilot, now named as Andreas Lubitz, was alive until the final impact, the prosecutors added.<\/p>\n
“We hear the pilot ask the co-pilot to take control of the plane and we hear at the same time the sound of a seat moving backwards and the sound of a door closing,” Mr Robin told reporters.<\/p>\n
“At that moment, the co-pilot is controlling the plane by himself. While he is alone, the co-pilot presses the buttons of the flight monitoring system to put into action the descent of the aeroplane.<\/p>\n
“This action on the altitude controls can only be deliberate.”<\/p>\n
The Airbus 320 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf hit a mountain, killing 150 people, after an eight-minute descent.<\/p>\n
“We hear the pilot ask the co-pilot to take control of the plane and we hear at the same time the sound of a seat moving backwards and the sound of a door closing,” Mr Robin told reporters.<\/p>\n
“At that moment, the co-pilot is controlling the plane by himself. While he is alone, the co-pilot presses the buttons of the flight monitoring system to put into action the descent of the aeroplane.<\/p>\n
“This action on the altitude controls can only be deliberate.”<\/p>\n
He added: “The most plausible interpretation is that the co-pilot through a voluntary act had refused to open the cabin door to let the captain in. He pushed the button to trigger the aircraft to lose altitude. He operated this button for a reason we don’t know yet, but it appears that the reason was to destroy this plane.”<\/p>\n
Mr Robin added that air traffic controllers made repeated attempts to contact the aircraft, but to no avail.<\/p>\n
The co-pilot was not known to have any links with terrorism, he said.<\/p>\n
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