Andreas Lubitz: Everything we know on Sunday about Germanwings plane crash co-pilot
The final minutes on board the doomed Germanwings flight have been revealed.
A transcript from the black box voice recorder recovered from crash site reveals the pilot screaming at Andreas Lubitz to open the cockpit door
Captain Patrick Sondheimer pleaded with Lubitz to unlock the cockpit door before taking an axe to it in a desperate attempt to stop the plane crashing
Other key elements in the search fo ranswers include:
• Dusseldorf hospital confirms it treated Andreas Lubitz in February and March but not for depression
• German prosecutors say Andreas Lubitz had a sick note from a doctor on Tuesday allowing him time off but that he tore it up
• Lubitz planned spectacular gesture that would go down in history, claims ex-girlfriend
• Lubitz' father is a devastated man
• German prosecutors say Andreas Lubitz had a sick note from a doctor on Tuesday allowing him time off but that he tore it up
• Lubitz planned spectacular gesture that would go down in history, claims ex-girlfriend
• Lubitz' father is a devastated man
The killer co-pilot
Andreas Lubitz was the boy who grew up dreaming of flying and of one day becoming a pilot.
He went on to fulfil his ambition, but it now appears that it was at the cost of 149 innocent lives after he "deliberately" crashed the Germanwings Airbus A320 into the side of a mountain in the French Alps.
The circumstances leading up to the crash are now the subject of a police investigation.
"The co-pilot is alone at the controls," said Brice Robin, a prosecutor in Marseilles on Wednesday, drawing on information gathered from the black box recorder. "He voluntarily refused to open the door of the cockpit to the pilot and voluntarily began the descent of the plane."
Mr Robin said Lubitz had a "deliberate desire to destroy this plane. He ... refused to open the door of the cockpit to the pilot and deliberately began the descent of the plane".
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