There is a press conference going on right now on TV and sadly the co pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed on Tuesday deliberately crashed the plane killing everyone along. His name has not yet been mentioned perhaps because they might want to shield his family from harm before they do so.
One of the pilots of the ill-fated Germanwings plane was locked out of the cockpit minutes before the aircraft plummeted into a remote region of the Alps, it was sensationally claimed last night.
The crash site
Audio files taken from the black box voice recorder that was salvaged from the wreckage of the Airbus A320 reportedly indicate the pilot left the cockpit and could not re-enter.The pilot is heard knocking lightly on the door of the cockpit before trying to 'smash the door down' when his colleague fails to answer.The revelation is the first insight into what took place on the aircraft in the moments before the plane crashed - killing all 150 on board, including three Britons - on Tuesday.An unnamed military investigator said ‘The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer.
‘And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer. You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.’
The claim will inevitably lead to speculation that the crash was deliberate – either caused by a suicidal pilot or as a result of terrorist activity.However, the lack of a response by the crew member at the controls might also indicate he had passed out or had become incapacitated in some way.
The recording so far provides no indication of the condition or activity of the pilot who remained in the cockpit.
The mangled black box
The mangled black box from Airbus A320 is the key that will unlock the mystery of the doomed flight.
Yesterday air crash investigators cracked open the jet’s cockpit flight recorder after recovering it from the slopes of the French Alps.
It will explain why the Germanwings aircraft lost radio contact with air traffic controllers during a routine flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
Aircraft black boxes – in fact usually painted bright orange to help investigators find them – are often recovered intact, even from the most serious crashes. But pictures of the black box cockpit voice recorder recovered from the Airbus A320 – designed to store two hours of conversation and withstand impacts of as much as 3,400 times the force of gravity – show it had been dented, twisted and scarred by the impact of the collision.Intriguingly, neither pilot on board the Airbus A320 flight has been named, nor any details of their age or nationality released by Germanwings.
The airline’s chief executive, Thomas Winkelmann, has said one of the pilots had more than ten years’ experience, including more than 6,000 hours on A320s.
The evidence is understood to come from a cockpit voice recorder that is currently being analysed by accident investigators in Le Bourget, near Paris.
16 TEENAGERS, TWO BABIES AND A FATHER: VICTIMS OF THE FLIGHT
Germanwings chief executive Thomas Winkelmann said those who died came from at least 13 different countries - with 72 German nationals and 49 people from Spain confirmed to have been on passenger lists for the plane. There has been some confusion over numbers of passengers and countries they are from, because of dual nationalities.
picture of some of the plane crash victims
class of 16 with 2 teachers who were also on the flight
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