Germanwings Disaster Might Have Been A Mass Murder Suicide

Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin is saying that 28-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed Germanwings Airlines Flight 4U9525 into the French Alps this week, killing all 150 people on board.

The blackbox recordings retrieved from the crash site have revealed that Lubitz was alone in the cockpit at the time of the crash, while the pilot consistently banged on the locked cockpit door, trying to break it down and get back inside after leaving to go to the bathroom.

Apparently the audio from inside the cockpit reveals that the pilot and co-pilot were chatting as if everything was normal for the first 20 minutes of the flight, before the pilot excused himself to go to the bathroom and left Lubitz in charge. Germanwings’ parent company, Lufthansa, have already confirmed that the pilot didn’t break any airline safety rules or aviation laws by doing this.

A short while later, the pilot can be heard banging on the locked cockpit door, trying to break his way back inside. Lubitz doesn’t utter a single word throughout all of this, but his breathing can clearly be heard on the recordings and it sounds as if he was conscious right up to the moment the plane crashed.

The pilot punched in a code that opens the cockpit door in an emergency, but Lubitz disabled it by pressing a button for a 5-minute override. In the last few moments before the crash, screams can be heard from the passengers.

Robin stated in a press conference held on Thursday that Lubitz deliberately reset the controls to plunge the flight into an accelerated descent, which lasted about 10 minutes.

When asked about the possibility of terrorism, Robin responded that there’s no indication it was a terrorist act, but he didn’t rule out that it was mass murder/suicide.

As the hours go by, more information on Andreas Lubitz has emerged online. The German co-pilot had been flying for Germanwings since September 2013, and had a total of 630 flying hours. It’s now emerged that Lubitz took time out of his training in 2009 to deal with depression.

Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr has expressed his shock and devastation at the horrific incident.

“What has happened here is a tragic individual event,” he said. “We are trying to deal with an enigma.”

More details are expected to be released as the investigation continues over the coming weeks.