Co-pilot 'Deliberately' Crashed the Germanwings Plane

The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday appeared to want to "destroy the plane", French officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin citing information from the "black box" voice recorder has said the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit.

He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out. There was absolute silence in the cockpit as the pilot fought to re-enter it. But, the co-pilot, now named as Andreas Lubitz, was alive until the final impact, the prosecutors added. Mr. Robin told reporters, "We hear the pilot ask the co-pilot to take control of the plane and we hear at the same time the sound of a seat moving backwards and the sound of a door closing". "At that moment, the co-pilot is controlling the plane by himself. While he is alone, the co-pilot presses the buttons of the flight monitoring system to put into action the descent of the airplane. "This action on the altitude controls can only be deliberate. " Due to this deliberate action to destroy the plane of the co-pilot, the Germanwings Airbus-320 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf hit the Alps Mountains, killing 150 people, after an eight-minute descent.