“The 28-year-old German co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 4U9525 appears to have deliberately crashed the plane, French prosecutors have said.
“However, they are currently not calling the crash a terrorist act, nor a suicide.
“The co-pilot, identified as Andreas Lubitz, repeatedly turned a dial to override the plane’s autopilot, sending it in a steep descent into the Alps, after the plane’s captain had left the cockpit to go to the toilet.
“The last eight minutes of the recovered cockpit flight recorder revealed the man’s steady, measured breathing as he ignored queries from flight control, an altitude alarm from the plane’s dashboard, and finally the desperate shouts of the captain outside.”
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