Germanwings Co-Pilot Appears To Have Crashed Plane Deliberately
28-year old Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of Germanwings flight 9525, locked himself alone in the cockpit and set the plane to a crash course that saw more than 150 people including him losing their lives, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The prosecutors did not offer any motive as to why Lubitz would consider taking such actions of locking the captain outside of the cockpit and setting the airbus on a course crash into the Alpine Mountain earlier this week and they are currently searching his home as well speaking with friends and co-pilots so as to find a reason as to why he took such actions.
According to Brice Robin, a prosecutor in Marseille, the 28-year old co-pilot acted "for a reason we cannot fathom right now but which looks like intent to destroy this aircraft."
He went on further to state that the rapid flight descent was an action that "could only have been voluntary."
"He had... no reason to stop the pilot-in-command from coming back into the cockpit. He had no reason to refuse to answer to the air controller who was alerting him on the loss of altitude."
The captain, who is believed to have left the cockpit so as to go to the washroom, can be heard banging the cockpit door and even went as far as trying to “smash the door down,” Robin said.
He also added that most of the passengers were not aware of their fate until the point when the plane was just about to crash into the Alpine Mountains.
"Only towards the end do you hear screams," Robin said. "And bear in mind that death would have been instantaneous...the aircraft was literally smashed to bits."