March 26, 2015

"The investigation into the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 reached an unexpected and mysterious turning point on Thursday as an audio recording from the plane's black box revealed that the German co-pilot deliberately crashed the aircraft into the southern French Alps after locking his captain out of the cockpit.

After analyzing the audio file extracted from the first black box retrieved from the crash site, investigators in France discovered that the captain of the flight left the cockpit with the aircraft on autopilot, said French prosecutor Brice Robin at a press conference in Marseille.

Once alone, the co-pilot, identified as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz from Germany, deliberately manipulated the controls to gradually lower the altitude of the aircraft from 12,000 meters to 2,000 meters."

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