Germanwings Crash - French Alps - Mar 24, 2015
SEYNES-LES-ALPES - In the morning of March 24th Germanwings flight 9525 suddenly disappeared from radar screens as it flew from Barcelona to Düsseldorf with 150 people on board. The fact that a popular Airbus 320 aircraft, used by so many carriers, sudden fell out of the skies above Europe was deeply troubling to travellers and airline chiefs. When we landed in Düsseldorf, where many of the victims had come from, no one would have believed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz would deliberately fly the plane into the French Alps. Pilot suicide and mass murderer seemed like a remote explanation. But when recovery teams listened to the flight recorder they had found in the debris, they were stunned. The focus of the investigation suddenly shifted from the plane to the co-pilot. Based on the audio heard, it seemed Andreas Lubitz had locked-out the captain and calmly accelerated the jet into the mountains at 700 km/h.
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