Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps

[silver_surfer]

Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps

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An Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne, French aviation officials and police have said.

The jet belongs to the German airline Germanwings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa.
The plane, flight 4U 9525, had been en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf with 144 passengers and six crew.
French President Francois Hollande said: "The conditions of the accident, which have not yet been clarified, lead us to think there are no survivors."
Mr Hollande said the crash was a tragedy, adding that the area was very difficult to access.

Mr Hollande later called German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express his sympathy, the French presidency said.
Spain's King Felipe, on a state visit to France, thanked the French government for its help and said he was cancelling the rest of his visit.
The plane issued a distress call at 10:47 (09:47 GMT), the French interior ministry said, although details have not been released.
Search-and-rescue teams are headed to the crash site at Meolans-Revels, said regional council head Eric Ciotti.

Although it began its life as an independent low-cost carrier, Germanwings is wholly owned by its parent Lufthansa.
It operates increasing numbers of the group's point-to-point short-haul routes and takes many passengers from German cities to Mediterranean sunspots.
The airline has an excellent safety record with no previously reported accidents. The average age of its Airbus fleet is just over nine years old, though flight 4U 9525 was a 24-year-old A320.
The plan was to phase out the Germanwings brand and replace it with Eurowings. There has been a longstanding dispute with the Vereinigung Cockpit union over early retirement. Pilots went on strike for three days around this time last year.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he had sent Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to the scene and a ministerial crisis cell had been set up to co-ordinate the incident.
The interior ministry said debris had been located at an altitude of 2,000m (6,500ft).
Spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told BFM TV that it would be "an extremely long and extremely difficult'' search-and-rescue operation because of the remoteness.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr tweeted: "We do not yet know what has happened to flight 4U 9525. My deepest sympathy goes to the families and friends of our passengers and crew.
"If our fears are confirmed, this is a dark day for Lufthansa. We hope to find survivors."
The Airbus A320 is a single-aisle passenger jet popular for short- and medium-haul flights.

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BBC NEWS (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32030270)

[ius semper]

RIP

[Sideritis]

A horrible tragedy! No words left. My plans of booking a flight with GermanWings crashed with them.
Condolences to the families! RIP.

[Porpolita]

Tragic. My thoughts with the families of the victims.

[Queen B]

Oh Gosh, this is so heartbreakng. Can't even look the news... :(

[Alchemysta]

No fucks given

[Skjaldemjøden]

There were 152 people on board according to what I read. Very tragic.
I hope there were no children among the passengers.

[ius semper]

There were 152 people on board according to what I read. Very tragic.
I hope there were no children among the passengers.

There were 16 german students, 5 spanish students and 2 babies

[LightHouse89]

I'm flying with german wings next week.

#yolo

Watch out. I hope they give you a parachute.

[Morena]

This is very sad. I hope that no one suffered. What a terrible way to go. :(

[The.Mask]

Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps

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The irony of this tragedy it's that this aircraft crashed near Barcelonette the little "Barcelona"

RIP.

[Jehan]

Is it me or it's really a bad time to take a plane. It sounds like we are in a middle of a series of fly crash. I don't remember, there were so a lot of accident some years ago.
Maybe it's due to the increase of traffic.

[Sideritis]

Is it me or it's really a bad time to take a plane. It sounds like we are in a middle of a series of fly crash. I don't remember, there were so a lot of accident some years ago.
Maybe it's due to the increase of traffic.

Or due to planes amortization. This one was 24 years old. The technology used in '91 should be outdated by now.

[Skjaldemjøden]

Yeah, I just heard on TV. That's a damn shame.

[Alphawolf]

It might correlate with the Solar storms. We have at the moment in Germany auroras until Austria.

[Alphawolf]

For the 6th day in a row, a high-speed solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[Ctwentysevenj]

Yes very sad. This is the second tragic news item on Apricity within the last week, first the senseless killing of Melbourne school girl Masa Vukotic, and now this:(. RIP

[Leliana]

http://www.wz-newsline.de/polopoly_fs/1.1896099.1427203102!/httpImage/onlineImage.jpg_gen/derivatives/galleryParty/onlineImage.jpg



The mysterious circumstances of the catastrophe are yet to be solved. The Airbus reached a normal flight height of about 12 kilometers but started to reduce height after just one single minute. Then it went into a stable descent, reducing the height by about 1000 to 1300 meters per minute. That's NOT a radical nosedive or plummet, but more of a common descent.

It took the machine full 8 minutes to crash into the mountain. The weather was good, sight was fine and the flight was a daylight flight around noon. The pilots must have seen that they are a) descending and b) on a frontal collision course right into a mountain. How could this happen? There was no SOS message and there was no communication between the machine and ground control in the last few minutes. There's no sign that the machine tried to change the course.

What the hell happened there? My prayers are with the victims and their families. :(


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[Ballist]

My prayers go out to the victims and the families affected.

[LightHouse89]

I passed physical for the airbourne in greece anyway.

Time to DEEP STRIKE.

sing this. if the aircraft is going down as you jump out of the craft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzrYgDnewSI

:thumb001: [forget the nasheed song its bad luck]

[LightHouse89]

This is why I like the sea. The worst that can happen is the boat sinks and everyone drowns or gets eaten by sharks. I think you have more of a chance of survival though.

[Ouistreham]

Is it me or it's really a bad time to take a plane. It sounds like we are in a middle of a series of fly crash. I don't remember, there were so a lot of accident some years ago.
No.
Modern airliners are extremely safe, virtually all possible causes of failure have been eliminated.
The number of casualties per trillion miles is constantly diminishing, year after year.
I believe in stats, I feel safer up in the sky than on the motorway to the airport!


The mysterious circumstances of the catastrophe are yet to be solved. The Airbus reached a normal flight height of about 12 kilometers but started to reduce height after just one single minute. Then it went into a stable descent, reducing the height by about 1000 to 1300 meters per minute. That's NOT a radical nosedive or plummet, but more of a common descent.

It took the machine full 8 minutes to crash into the mountain. The weather was good, sight was fine and the flight was a daylight flight around noon. The pilots must have seen that they are a) descending and b) on a frontal collision course right into a mountain. How could this happen? There was no SOS message and there was no communication between the machine and ground control in the last few minutes. There's no sign that the machine tried to change the course.

The higher the overall safety rate, the more enigmatic the few crashes that still happen.

Sounds like a sudden cabin depressurization, and the crew just had time to set the autopilot for a controlled descent before they lost consciousness. I can't find any other explanation for the fact the machine rammed into a mountain at full cruising speed while keeping its programmed course.

[Stanley]

Is it me or it's really a bad time to take a plane. It sounds like we are in a middle of a series of fly crash. I don't remember, there were so a lot of accident some years ago.
Maybe it's due to the increase of traffic.
The number of plane crashes is continuing to trend downward.

Number of fatal accidents (minimum 19 passengers):
http://i.imgur.com/NKbBgfa.jpg

Number of fatalities:
http://i.imgur.com/urLlS0o.jpg

Note too that these decreases are occurring even as the number of flights and passengers increases:

http://i40.tinypic.com/eaocxt.jpg

2014, of course, saw a spike in fatalities despite a decrease in number of crashes because of the occurrence of a few major crashes. But when you take into account that MH17 was shot down, having nothing to do with actual airplane safety, and that MH370 is just about the weirdest shit ever, it's safe (pun intended) to say 2014 was an aberration in an otherwise continuously improving record of airplane safety.

[Marusya]

Such a heartbreaking tragedy. All those children. Love and peace to their broken families.

I would like to remember for a moment one ethnic Ukrainian.

Oleg Bryzhak - Memory Eternal!

Oleg Bryzhak (Ukrainian: Олег Брижак, October 27, 1960 – March 24, 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German opera singer, bass-baritone. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.

Bryzhak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.

Bryzhak died on March 24, 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner in the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash in France, during his return from performances of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Bryzhak

His beautiful voice can be heard here, on his website: http://www.olegbryjak.com/

[Ctwentysevenj]

There is still the mystery of Malaysian air lines MH 370 which crash in the Indian ocean, off the Australian coast line. Still hasn't been found.

[adsız]

Irregular or no maintenance to reduce cost.
A low quality Airline ...

RIP.

[War Chef]

In the last 8 minutes the plane was on a steady 4000ft per minute descent:

http://i.imgur.com/nPYGJVQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KXSRWd4.png
Either:

1. There was a leak in cabin pressurization leading to hypoxia and everyone including the crew passed out before slamming into the mountain
2. Pilot suicide
3. Terrorism

The first one is most likely at the moment. For whatever it's worth, this plane had completed 46,700 successful flights.

[Rudel]

What bothers me the most is the amount of public commiseration for an accident that didn't implicate us in any way other than crashing on our side of the mountain rather than in Italy.
I can't stand politicians whining when there's nothing to whine about.

[LightHouse89]

What bothers me the most is the amount of public commiseration for an accident that didn't implicate us in any way other than crashing on our side of the mountain rather than in Italy.
I can't stand politicians whining when there's nothing to whine about.

Euro air bus sucks. Face it Boeing is superior. Notice we never have these issues and this is the third euro plane that has crashed due to inferior technology.

They say europeans make better things than us Yanks :rolleyes:

[Leliana]

Sounds like a sudden cabin depressurization, and the crew just had time to set the autopilot for a controlled descent before they lost consciousness. I can't find any other explanation for the fact the machine rammed into a mountain at full cruising speed while keeping its programmed course.
Yes, that sounds convincing and seems to be the most realistic hypothesis.

However, flight experts and other pilots tell the media right now that an Autopilot who took over the flight control of a machine (after the crew has become unconciousness, etc.) and is on the way to lose height would stabilize the flight at a height of about 3500 to 3000 meters! On such height, people were able to regain conciousness as the air pressure is acceptable there.

The Germanwings flight, however, didn't stabilisize the descent at ~3500 meters above sea level. The machine decreased further, and ultimatively hit the mountain on a height of about 1500 meters above sea level. :( Had the presumed Autopilot in control stopped the descent at 3000 or 3500 meters, the machine could have flew above the French Alps, and after some minutes, the crew could have slowly regained their conciousness.

But that are just theories.

[LightHouse89]

In the last 8 minutes the plane was on a steady 4000ft per minute descent:

http://i.imgur.com/nPYGJVQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KXSRWd4.png
Either:

1. There was a leak in cabin pressurization leading to hypoxia and everyone including the crew passed out before slamming into the mountain
2. Pilot suicide
3. Terrorism

The first one is most likely at the moment. For whatever it's worth, this plane had completed 46,700 successful flights.

Nope. I have been reading about this somewhere and the last several accidents with Euro 'airbuses' and this particular model of plane has been some sensor in the front that assists with automated flight. What could have happened is that the sensor was washed and not long after the plane took off. If it was taking off the sensor most like froze and gave off false readings.

These planes are automated and pilots cannot over ride the automated system in air buses.

[LightHouse89]

Yes, that sounds convincing and seems to be the most realistic hypothesis.

However, flight experts and other pilots tell the media right now that an Autopilot who took over the flight control of a machine (after the crew has become unconciousness, etc.) and is on the way to lose height would stabilize the flight at a height of about 3500 to 3000 meters! On such height, people were able to regain conciousness as the air pressure is acceptable there.

The Germanwings flight, however, didn't stabilisize the descent at ~3500 meters above sea level. The machine decreased further, and ultimatively hit the mountain on a height of about 1500 meters above sea level. :(

german air bus should buy public shares in Boeing to avoid this in the future :)

[Leliana]

german air bus should buy public shares in Boeing to avoid this in the future :)

A) Airbus is mainly French these days. German impact is below 50%.

B) There were more horrible Boeing/Mc Downell Douglas crashes in history as Airbus crashes. You can't take the shot down Malaysian machine over Ukraine as an argument for 'inferior' European technology. A Boeing had taken the same course of destruction after a war missile had hit the machine. :rolleyes:

[Rudel]

Euro air bus sucks. Face it Boeing is superior. Notice we never have these issues and this is the third euro plane that has crashed due to inferior technology.

They say europeans make better things than us Yanks :rolleyes:
Whatever amuses you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

[Jehan]

What bothers me the most is the amount of public commiseration for an accident that didn't implicate us in any way other than crashing on our side of the mountain rather than in Italy.
I can't stand politicians whining when there's nothing to whine about.

They can't really talk about other stuffs (economy, siryan war, islamism...) without be ridiculous and they can get some support by compassion before the second election turns.

[Porpolita]

Or due to planes amortization. This one was 24 years old. The technology used in '91 should be outdated by now.

Its true that as a plane gets older, it will require more attention (just like a car, human or anything else ) but if it is properly maintained, it should be safe. There are strict rules for airworthiness.

[ius semper]

I thinkt that the french gouvernment is doing a great job and behaving like a truly european brother so chapeau for them. Also so sad so many people died. RIP

[Smaug]

Vey sad. Another tragic day for international aviation.

[LightHouse89]

Vey sad. Another tragic day for international aviation.

Non Boeing aviation which is inferior.

[LightHouse89]

A) Airbus is mainly French these days. German impact is below 50%.

B) There were more horrible Boeing/Mc Downell Douglas crashes in history as Airbus crashes. You can't take the shot down Malaysian machine over Ukraine as an argument for 'inferior' European technology. A Boeing had taken the same course of destruction after a war missile had hit the machine. :rolleyes:

Boeing planes have anti missile systems. :rolleyes:

[LightHouse89]

Whatever amuses you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

fuck LOL XD

Well I blame Asian mechanics for that.

[Smaug]

Non Boeing aviation which is inferior.

Boeings are not inferior, they are as good as Airbuses. Of course the best airplanes are built by Embraer.

[Stanley]

Either:

1. There was a leak in cabin pressurization leading to hypoxia and everyone including the crew passed out before slamming into the mountain
2. Pilot suicide
3. Terrorism

This has to be the most likely explanation now.

Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France

PARIS — As officials struggled Wednesday to explain why a jet with 150 people on board crashed in relatively clear skies, an investigator said evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane’s descent and was unable to get back in.

A senior military official involved in the investigation described “very smooth, very cool” conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf. Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” the investigator said. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”

He said, “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

No fucks given

Seriously...you've gone too far. I'm glad you got banned finally.

[Ouistreham]

This has to be the most likely explanation now.
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France

There are about 37 million commercial flights yearly. Roughly 100,000 departures every average day.
There will always be pilots with hidden bipolar troubles, suicidal tendencies or sudden nervous breakdowns.
We're probably coming to the point when suicide is going to become the main cause of airliner crashes.

[rhiannon]

http://www.wz-newsline.de/polopoly_fs/1.1896099.1427203102!/httpImage/onlineImage.jpg_gen/derivatives/galleryParty/onlineImage.jpg



The mysterious circumstances of the catastrophe are yet to be solved. The Airbus reached a normal flight height of about 12 kilometers but started to reduce height after just one single minute. Then it went into a stable descent, reducing the height by about 1000 to 1300 meters per minute. That's NOT a radical nosedive or plummet, but more of a common descent.

It took the machine full 8 minutes to crash into the mountain. The weather was good, sight was fine and the flight was a daylight flight around noon. The pilots must have seen that they are a) descending and b) on a frontal collision course right into a mountain. How could this happen? There was no SOS message and there was no communication between the machine and ground control in the last few minutes. There's no sign that the machine tried to change the course.

What the hell happened there? My prayers are with the victims and their families. :(


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/24/17/26F48EC000000578-3009151-School_children_mourn_for_their_dead_school_mates_ in_front_of_th-a-47_1427218828580.jpg

One of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit and was unable to gain re-entry despite sounds of the cockpit door being pounded on quite hard. No communication was heard between the two pilots at this point, and it was around this point the airplane had begun its descent into the mountains.

Something hinky about this accident...

[rhiannon]

Euro air bus sucks. Face it Boeing is superior. Notice we never have these issues and this is the third euro plane that has crashed due to inferior technology.

They say europeans make better things than us Yanks :rolleyes:

According to my airline pilot husband, who flies 737s of all types...

Boeings are less automated and easier to take control over when in-flight emergencies arise. Think of them as a little more old school because pilots have to engage the actual airplane more during flight. Less computerized, which is, IMO, a good thing.

[Ctwentysevenj]

Boeings are not inferior, they are as good as Airbuses. Of course the best airplanes are built by Embraer.

No, Built by Alenia -Aermacchi
http://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/fotoLo258.jpg

[Ctwentysevenj]

Looks like the co pilot deliberately crashed the aircraft.

[Smaug]

Looks like the co pilot deliberately crashed the aircraft.

Yes, I've just seen in on the TV. They are talking about suicide. I hope it's not true.

[Pahli]

Yes, I've just seen in on the TV. They are talking about suicide. I hope it's not true.

They said the 2nd pilot refused to let the flight captain inside again, and that he crashed the plane on purpose ...

[Sideritis]

I also heard that the copilot did it on purpose. Why take 150 people with you? Wowo

[Pahli]

I also heard that the copilot did on purpose. Why take 150 people with you? Wowo

Because some people are born without brains ... Why couldn't he just have jumped out infront of a train or shot himself?

[Sideritis]

Because some people are born without brains ... Why couldn't he just have jumped out infront of a train or shot himself?

Or just hang himself in the bathroom. That is so sad.

[Vullkan]

the second black case must be found to have an exact understanding of what really happened.

[Smaug]

They said the 2nd pilot refused to let the flight captain inside again, and that he crashed the plane on purpose ...

Yes.

[Ctwentysevenj]

Maybe he was busy posting a post on Apricity, and not concentrating on the controls. Probably posting a swarthy with a monobrow on Taxonomy.

[rhiannon]

Looks like the co pilot deliberately crashed the aircraft.I knew this yesterday. In fact, because my husband was training all day yesterday, I was the one who told him all about this crash when he came home last night. Upon discussing the nature of the article about the pilot being locked out, we both knew that the other pilot had done it on purpose.

This is some horrific shit.

[Rudel]

behaving like a truly european brother
:puke:

[Catkin]

I think the fact it seems it was done deliberately makes it even harder for the families. They didn't just suffer an accident, they were deliberately murdered. So much less understandable. So sad. Apparently the co-pilot's parents had gone out to France with the other families- they've now been separated. Shocking for them.

[European Knight]

Germanwings co-pilot appears to have crashed plane deliberately – prosecutor

The Germanwings co-pilot seemed to have crashed the plane deliberately, killing 150 people on board. The co-pilot wouldn’t let the captain inside the cabin, with the “intension to destroy” the jet, the French prosecutor said at a press conference.

Follow RT’s LIVE UPDATES on investigation into Germanwings plane crash

The Germanwings co-pilot was identified as Andreas Lubitz.

http://i.imgur.com/3LfisyZ.png

The captain was between 30 and 40 years old, fully qualified, had 10,000 hours of flight, and had worked with Lufthansa for 10 years, while the co-pilot was 28, and commenced working for Lufthansa in 2013.

Prosecutor Brice Robin provided the explanation he thought the most likely, judging by the transcript of the black box recording of the last 30 minutes in the cockpit before the crash.

The captain left the cockpit to go to the toilet, asking the co-pilot to take over. Then the co-pilot accelerated the plane’s descent, likely voluntarily, the prosecutor said.

Someone attempted to break open the door to the cockpit from the outside, he added.

http://rt.com/news/244265-a320-crash-deliberate-pilot/


http://youtu.be/FA8CYuK4Be0


http://youtu.be/KEtCZfBlHIE

[RandoBloom]

Imagine the tittles if the man was a muslim and did the same thing.
Rip to the dead btw

[щрбл]

Maybe he converted to Islam, who knows.

[Vullkan]

Maybe he converted to Islam, who knows.

lol

[Marusya]

This is some horrific shit. I agree. This tragedy is beyond sickening. I have to fly next month and I'm suddenly petrified to take a 3 hour flight. :eek:

I just read this. Chilling.


Transponder data show that the autopilot on Germanwings Flight 9525 was reprogrammed by someone in the cockpit to change the plane's altitude from 38,000 feet to 100 feet, according to Flightradar24, a website that tracks aviation data.

[LightHouse89]

Imagine the tittles if the man was a muslim and did the same thing.
Rip to the dead btw

its rather irrelevant. I tend to thin the man who flew the airplane into the ocean from Malaysia was no different despite being a muslim. He did it because he was an incel.

[Nurzat]

it seems Lubitz is half Romanian German, on his mother's side (Romania had a big German community from the 13th to the 20th century, mostly immigrated to Germany from the 1950s to 1990s). German was reported as native by about 12% of Romanians at the interwar census. his bad side comes from Romania, it seems

[Leliana]

'Lubitz' is a Eastern-German/Prussian name, could be of Slavic-Polish origin 'Lubicz' or 'Lubice'...

...so we should invade Poland again as revenge!

:picard2: :picard1:

[European Knight]

Australia orders two on flight decks after French Alps plane crash

The move follows European airlines which now will implement the rule of two in the cockpit - standard in the US

Australian airlines must ensure that two crew are on the flight deck at all times, Warren Truss, the deputy prime minister, has said in response to the Germanwings disaster.

Investigators believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked his captain out of the cockpit of Flight 4U 9525 and deliberately steered the Airbus A320 into a French mountainside last week, killing all 150 onboard.

"The government has been in discussion with the airlines over the last couple of days and there has been an agreement that airlines in Australia will move immediately to adjust their flight operation procedures to ensure that there are always two people on the flight deck," Mr Truss told reporters on Monday.

"The airlines will be acting immediately to implement this change and we'd expect to see this policy in place within hours on our major airlines."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11503358/Australia-orders-two-on-flight-decks-after-French-Alps-plane-crash.html

http://cna.asia/1yt4X3s

[Arbërori]

This is believed to be a leaked video of the final moments on the plane: http://reblop.com/breaking-moments-video-found-in-wreckage-shows-germanwings-airbus-flight-a320-final-seconds-before-crash-in-french/.

The news report:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbyPV1AGKtg

[European Knight]

http://citizen.co.za/afp_feed_article/second-black-box-found-from-french-alps-plane-cras/
Marseille (AFP)

The second black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps last week has been found after a nine-day search, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Authorities are hoping to unearth more clues about the disaster from the black box after the first voice recorder suggested that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the plane into a mountain.

The second black box records technical flight data that could provide vital insights into the final moments of Flight 4U9525 before it crashed last Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board.

The first black box, found the same day as the crash, recorded conversations between Lubitz and the pilot and showed that the 27-year-old German was alone at the time of the crash.

He apparently took advantage of the captain’s brief absence to lock him out and set the plane on a deadly descent into the Alps.

http://citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/afp/2015/04/02/5c7ed18e0b090c2a5df43f4217e2a8653c1fc197.jpg?d6ee5 c

[European Knight]

http://www.france24.com/en/20150402-co-pilot-lubitz-researched-suicide-before-germanwings-crash/

Co-pilot Lubitz 'researched suicide' in days before crash

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz researched suicide and cockpit door security online in the days before deliberately crashing the Airbus 320 into the Alps, German prosecutors said Thursday, as investigators found a second black box voice recorder.

Investigators found a tablet computer at Lubitz’s apartment and were able to reconstruct his searches from March 16 to March 23, the day before the crash, Duesseldorf prosecutors said.

[Hurrem sultana]

I actually doubt he has done this,conspiracy or not i think there were some technical faults at the airbus,serious ones....so they just decided to blame it on the pilot,since it would be a disaster if they were open about the mistakes at airbus germanwings