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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 – named as 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz – locked his captain out after the senior officer left the cockpit.
At that point, Lubitz uses 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 700km per hour.
‘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’.
Mr Robin said: ‘We hear the pilot asking the co-pilot to take over and we hear the sound of a chair being pushed back and a door closing so we assume that the captain went to the toilet or something.
Mr Robin went on: ‘Just before final impact we hear the sound of a first impact. It’s believed that the plane may have hit something before the final impact.
‘There is no distress signal or Mayday signal. No answer was received despite numerous calls from the tower.’
Screaming could be heard on the audio recording only in the last few minutes, and death was instantaneous for those on board, he said.
Robin said he was not thinking of the Germanwings crash as a suicide, explaining: “When you are responsible for 150 people, I don’t call it a suicide.”
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