PARIS, May 6 (Reuters) – The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashed a plane in the Alps in March Germanwings had practiced introducing parameters fatal decline in outbound flight, researchers said on Wednesday.
The tragedy occurred on March 24 when the plane, traveling from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, crashed in a remote area of the French Alps, killing 150 people on board.
Changes in the settings of the autopilot, which mimicked who crashed the plane on his way back to Düsselforf hardly have been noticeable because the plane was already declining, the researchers said.
“No I can speculate on what was going on in his head, all I can say is that he changed the button to the minimum setting of 100 feet and he did several times, “said Remi Jouty, director of the Office of Research and Analysis for Safety of Civil Aviation (BEA, by its acronym in French).
Shortly after the plane reached cruising altitude on the flight back, the captain told the copilot Andreas Lubitz 27 years I was going to leave the cab and asked him to take over the radio so.
Just 30 seconds after the door closed when he was alone in the cabin, Lubitz entered commands that had rehearsed previously and ordered the ship to go down 100 feet on autopilot I’m low enough to crash into the mountain-and altered other to speed dial.
The findings come from a review of the records of voice cockpit and flight data taken from the two black boxes of the aircraft.
The BEA, whose research is conducted in parallel to judicial investigations, issue a final report in about a year that could include recommendations the cockpit doors and the management of medical records of the pilots of the airline industry
(Reporting by Tim Hepher.; Published in Spanish by Janisse Huambachano)
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