Evidence has been found that sheds light on why the pilot may have deliberately downed the plane.
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The co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps had hidden an unspecified medical condition from his employer and had torn up recent documents in his home saying he was unable to work, German state prosecutors say.
One hundred and fifty people, including a Victorian woman and her adult son, died when the plane slammed into the mountainside on Tuesday.
A French prosecutor said Andreas Lubitz, 28, deliberately crashed the Airbus A320, with the senior pilot locked out of the cockpit.
After listening to the cockpit voice recorders, prosecutors in France offered no motive for why Lubitz would take the controls of the plane, lock the captain out and deliberately set it to veer down from its cruising altitude at a rate of 3,000 feet per minute.
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German investigators carried out searches in the homes of the Lubitz, seizing documents and a computer.
“Documents with medical contents were confiscated that point towards an existing illness and corresponding treatment by doctors,” the prosecutors’ office in Duesseldorf said.
“The fact there are sick notes saying he was unable to work, among other things, that were found torn up, which were recent and even from the day of the crime, support the assumption based on the preliminary examination that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and his professional colleagues.”
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I hope they consider making changes! A captain Being locked out! Maybe a password to get in to the cockpit would be ideal !? I can't imagine what that captain was going through. Rest in peace to all who lost their lives ..
The axe is not on the cabin side of the door on aircrafts so the captain would not have been using an axe. This part of your journalism along with other items is incorrect.