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Added on the 26/03/2015 23:12:58 - Copyright : Reuters EN
Andreas Lubitz, the young German co-pilot who authorities say locked himself in the cockpit of a Germanwings flight and flew it into the French Alps, trained in Arizona – local media. Gavino Garay reports.
The pilot of missing EgyptAir flight 804 warned air traffic controllers in Cairo that parts of the cabin were engulfed in smoke just minutes before the plane crashed, according to a report.
The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing an A320 Airbus into the French Alps rehearsed the fatal maneuver on the morning of the March 24th disaster. BEA, the French accident investigation agency, has released a preliminary report into the accident. Information taken from the flight data recorder on the outbound flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf shows co-pilot Andreas Lubitz set the autopilot to take the Airbus down to as low as 100 feet while the captain was out of the cockpit.
Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who intentionally crashed the Germanwings aircraft into the French Alps on March 24, told officials at a Lufthansa training school in 2009 that he suffered from severe depression.
French rescuers have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed Germanwings flight U49525, which will hopefully yield more information about the circumstances of the crash in the French Alps.
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