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Added on the 28/03/2015 12:47:05 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
Investigators found torn-up sick notes in the home of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, including one for the day of the fatal crash that killed 150 people.
The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing an A320 Airbus into the French Alps rehearsed the fatal maneuver on the morning of the March 24th disaster. BEA, the French accident investigation agency, has released a preliminary report into the accident. Information taken from the flight data recorder on the outbound flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf shows co-pilot Andreas Lubitz set the autopilot to take the Airbus down to as low as 100 feet while the captain was out of the cockpit.
Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who intentionally crashed the Germanwings aircraft into the French Alps on March 24, told officials at a Lufthansa training school in 2009 that he suffered from severe depression.
New information leaked from the cockpit voice recording of Germanwings flight 4U9525 reveals Captain Patrick Sondheimer yelled “Open the damn door!” minutes before the plane crashed into the French Alps.
More questions surrounding Tuesday’s Germanwings plane crash that killed 150 people have arisen after audio collected from the cockpit voice recorder revealed that one of the pilots was locked outside of the cockpit before the crash.
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