"A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to put the airplane on a descent towards an altitude of 100 feet," BEA investigators said in a statement.
"Then several times the pilot modified the automatic pilot settings to increase the speed of the airplane as it descended," it added.
Authorities found the second black box, which contains technical flight data, on Thursday after a gruelling nine-day search in difficult mountain terrain.
Data from the first black box, which records conversations in the cockpit, suggested that Lubitz, 27, locked his captain out and then deliberately set the plane on a deadly collision course with the mountains.
The plane smashed into the mountains at a speed of 700 kilometres an hour, instantly killing all 150 people on board – half of them German and more than 50 from Spain.
It emerged on Thursday that Lubitz had searched online for information about suicide and cockpit doors.
German prosecutors have said Lubitz was diagnosed as suicidal "several years ago", before he became a pilot.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
http://www.france24.com/en/20150403-second-black-box-confirms-germanwings-crash-deliberate/
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Crash A320 : la seconde boîte noire confirme un acte volontaire du copilote...
ReplyDelete"Une première lecture fait apparaître que le pilote présent dans le cockpit a utilisé le pilote automatique pour engager l'avion en descente", assure le BEA.
L'analyse de la seconde boîte noire a confirmé les éléments extraits de la première : le crash de l'Airbus A320 de la Germanwings, la semaine dernière dans les Alpes, est bien dû à un acte volontaire du copilote présent dans le cockpit en vue de faire descendre l'appareil, selon les premiers éléments d'analyse du Bureau d'enquêtes et d'analyses (BEA).
"Une première lecture fait apparaître que le pilote présent dans le cockpit a utilisé le pilote automatique pour engager l'avion en descente vers une altitude de 100 ft [pieds, soit environ 300 mètres, NDLR], puis, à plusieurs reprises au cours de la descente, le pilote a modifié le réglage du pilote automatique pour augmenter la vitesse de l'avion en descente", indique le BEA dans un communiqué...........http://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/tourisme-transport/0204278531244-crash-a320-la-seconde-boite-noire-confirme-un-acte-volontaire-du-copilote-1108284.php?gj1yOGQDU7SxwAKi.99#xtor=RSS37
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The second flight recorder contains technical information of the aircraft and flight and was found Thursday evening. The information was immediately handed to experts from the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA) in Roissy, France...
ReplyDeleteThe first black box was recovered shortly after Germanwings flight 9525 plane en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf crashed in southern France on March 24. All 150 people on board died.
The retrieved voice recorder revealed that after the pilot left the cockpit, the plane's co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the door and did not let the captain back in. Lubitz changed the altitude setting on the autopilot to 100 feet, causing the plane to fly into a mountain. According to the record, Lubitz showed no signs of panic.
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150403/1020417297.html#ixzz3WFANlcyR
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