Thursday, 26 March 2015

Pilot of doomed Flight 4U 9525 jet was 'locked out of cockpit minutes before crash and tried to smash door down', black box recorder reveals



Plane

 Audio taken from the black box voice recorder (left) that was salvaged from the wreckage of the Airbus A320 (right) indicates the pilot left the cockpit and could not re-enter, an official told the New York Times. One of the two pilots flying the ill-fated Germanwings flight was locked out of the cockpit before the aircraft crashed into a remote region of the French Alps, it was  reported.A senior military official involved in the investigation said the pilot is heard knocking lightly on the door of the cockpit before hitting the door harder when he gets no answer. It indicates that just one of the two pilots on board was flying the plane - and that the second became panicked after he was unable to get back into the cockpit. The revelation is the first insight into what took place on the aircraft in the moments before the plane (inset) plummeted into the mountainside, killing all 150 people on board.See more photos after the cut...


   

  The revelation is the first insight into what took place on the aircraft in the moments before the plane plummetted into the mountainside, killing all 150 people on board. Above, the crash site today

Obliterated: Search and rescue teams sift through the wreckage of the Germanwings plane on Wednesday

Paul Andrew Bramley who was one of the British victims on board the Germanwings flight
Victims:Paul Andrew Bramley
Victims: Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio (left)  a 37-year-old Spanish woman living in Manchester and travelling with seven-month-old son, and Oleg Bryjak (right) were killed in the crash, while it is likely that a number of British nationals were also among those who died
 Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio

Graduate Emily Selke, pictured, has been named as one of the two Americans killed in the crash. Her mother, U.S. government contractor Yvonne Selke, was also on board the doomed Airbus A320
Graduate Emily Selke, pictured ,and her mother Yvonne Selke,are the two Americans also on board the doomed Airbus A320

Victim: Opera singer Maria Radner who was travelling with her baby was among the passengers who lost their lives in the crashVictims: Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio (left)  a 37-year-old Spanish woman living in Manchester and travelling with seven-month-old son, and Oleg Bryjak (right) were killed in the crash, while it is likely that a number of British nationals were also among those who died
Victims: Opera singer Maria Radner (left), who was travelling with her baby, and Oleg Bryjak (right) were among those killed in the crash

Australian victims: Mother and son Carol and Greig Friday, from Victoria, were among the 150 passengers and crew on board doomed Germanwings Flight 4U 9525Australian victims: Mother and son Carol and Greig Friday, from Victoria, were among the 150 passengers and crew on board doomed Germanwings Flight 4U 9525
Australian victims: Mother and son Carol and Greig Friday, from Victoria, were among the 150 passengers and crew on board Flight 4U 9525

Culled from:Daily Mail
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