Germanwings pilot wanted to destroy the plane

Prosecutor Marcel Brice Robin reported that the co-pilot of the Germanwings airline crashed in the Alps A320 wanted to destroy the plane. Records of the flight recorder show that it controlled the descent until the moment the liner crashed into the mountain.

According to Robin, one of the two pilots of the crashed Germanwings plane on Tuesday faced an accident outside the cabin and was unable to return.

According to data obtained from the black box, the pilot desperately tried to return to the controls, but the door was blocked.

“The pilot first calmly knocks on the cockpit door and receives no response,” the New York Times quoted one of the investigators as saying.

“And then he starts banging on the door - and there is no answer. Nobody is answering. Then you can hear that he is trying to knock down the door.”

In addition, on-board recorders preserved alarm signal, warning of proximity to the ground, which worked before the crash, reports France Press.

The second black box of the aircraft has not yet been discovered.

Aboard a Germanwings passenger aircraft flying on an 4U 9525 flight on Tuesday, there were 150 peopleamong which were three citizens of Kazakhstan (members of one family); an Israeli citizen who lived in Barcelona and an opera singer of Ukrainian origin.

Airbus A320, flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, crashed in the Alps on Tuesday after a short-term (it lasted only eight minutes) and rapid loss of height, after which the plane crashed at high speed into the mountain.