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Airbus A320: for the prosecutor of Marseilles the co-pilot wanted to destroy the plane

According to the Marseille prosecutor, the co-pilot's voluntary gesture of wanting to destroy the aircraft is at the root of the tragedy – Madness or terrorism? Investigations still ongoing – The man, once left alone in the cabin, prevented the captain from entering and set the Germanwings plane to descend until it crashed in the mountains in Provence

Airbus A320: for the prosecutor of Marseilles the co-pilot wanted to destroy the plane

According to the reconstruction provided by Brice Robin, the Marseille prosecutor who is dealing with the plane crash of Airbus A320 of Germanwings, co-pilot of the flight would have voluntarily refused to open the cabin door to the flight commander who had temporarily moved away from his command post. According to what was declared in the press conference by the prosecutor of Marseilles, the co-pilot would have prevented the pilot from returning and "activated the altitude loss button which led the plane to go down” and crash in the mountains of Provence. For the prosecutor it was a "voluntary gesture by the co-pilot" who demonstrated "a will to destroy the aircraft".

According to what the prosecutor reports, an examination of the black box shows that various requests from the flight commander are heard outside the cabin "to allow access to the cockpit, but no response comes from the co-pilot". The prosecutor also added that from the recordings of the black box "human breathing can be heard inside the cabin until the final impact" and that therefore the hypothesis of an illness on the part of the co-pilot cannot be excluded.

The passengers would have realized the danger only moments before crash of the Airbus 320 with the mountains. According to the words of the prosecutor Robin, the death of the passengers "was instantaneous because the plane disintegrated upon impact with the mountain".

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