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CO-PILOT LOCKED CAPTAIN OUT OF COCKPIT: Chilling last minutes of Germanwings Airbus crash revealed

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Based on recordings, investigators now assume co-pilot deliberately crashed the 150 passenger airbus.

Investigators have recovered key information from the French Alps wrecked Germanwings Airbus A320's black box and voice recorder. The co-pilot, 28-year-old German, Andreas Lubitz, intentionally locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed into a mountain, according to investigators.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - With help from French prosecutor Brice Robin and the black box recordings, we now have a better understanding at what really happened during those missing last ten minutes on that plane.

The captain, identified as German father Patrick Sonderheimer, is heard leaving the cockpit.

"We hear the pilot asking the co-pilot to take over and we hear the sound of a chair being pushed back and a door closing, so we assume that the captain went toilet or something," explained Robin. "So the co-pilot is on his own, and it is while he's on his own that the co-pilot is in charge of the plane and uses the flight monitoring system to start the descent of the plane."

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According to Robin, at this point of flying and altitude, putting the flight into descent is something that has to be voluntarily and deliberately done manually.

"We hear several shouts from the captain asking to get in, speaking through the intercom system, but there's no answer from the cockpit."

Robin stated Lubitz refused to open the door.

Following September 11, 2001, airplanes increased security measures. "When the cockpit door is locked, it is possible for the crew to punch in a code from the outside and gain access, unless the person in the cockpit over-rides it," explained Tony Newton, a Civil Aviation Authority examiner and experience A320 pilot.

The person in the cockpit can see, on a camera screen, if someone is trying to get in; they can then flip a switch to block access.

"If the person in the cockpit doesn't want you coming in, you're not coming in. Blocking access requires a deliberate action on behalf of the pilot. It's a pretty dark thing to have happened," he stated.

According to Robin, Lubitz's breathing remained normal the entire descent. "He never said a single word. It was total silence in the cockpit for the past ten minutes. Nothing."

"Just before final impact we hear the sound of a first impact. It's believed that the plane may have hit something before the final impact," Robin goes on explaining the recording. "There is no distress signal or Mayday signal. No answer was received despite numerous calls from the tower."

Although investigation has expanded to cover Lubitz's entire life and emotional state, the reason why he did this remains unknown. However, Robin does not suspect a terrorist attack nor a suicide. Lubitz had 600 hours of flying experience, won an award from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2013 and was a member of the LSC Westerwald flying club in Montabaur.

"I don't think that the passengers realized what was happening until the last moments because on the recording you only hear the screams in the final seconds," explained Robin.

Alarm systems went off indicating to everyone on board the proximity of the ground. The recording reveals a stronger fight to get inside the cockpit at that time.

All 150 on board that flight died. The plane is completely destroyed.

"The biggest body parts we identified are not bigger than a briefcase," explained one investigator.

"There were 150 people on board but we have identified less than 14. The others seem to have been vaporized," stated another official.

300 policemen and 380 firefighters have been sent to the site for the task of searching the grounds.

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