BREAKING NEWS: Pilot of Doomed Flight 4U 9525 Jet was 'Locked OUT of ****pit Minutes BEFORE Crash and Tried to Mash Door Down'
>Black Box Recorder Reveals
- Black box voice recorder was salvaged from wreckage of Airbus today
- Audio taken from device 'reveals one pilot left ****pit during the flight'
- Pilot is heard banging on door but receives no response from colleague
- No details on the pilots' names, ages or nationalities have been released
- Revelation is first insight into what took place in moments before crash
Daily Mail UK, 26 March 2015
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One of the pilots of the ill-fated Germanwings plane was locked out of the ****pit minutes before the aircraft plummeted into a remote region of the Alps, it was sensationally claimed last night.
Audio files taken from the black box voice recorder that was salvaged from the wreckage of the Airbus A320 reportedly indicate the pilot left the ****pit and could not re-enter.
The pilot is heard knocking lightly on the door of the ****pit before trying to 'smash the door down' when his colleague fails to answer
The revelation is the first insight into what took place on the aircraft in the moments before the plane crashed - killing all 150 on board, including three Britons - on Tuesday.
However, the lack of a response by the crew member at the controls might also indicate he had passed out or had become incapacitated in some way.
The recording so far provides no indication of the condition or activity of the pilot who remained in the ****pit.
Intriguingly, neither pilot on board the Airbus A320 flight has been named, nor any details of their age or nationality released by Germanwings.
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RECOVERED BLACK BOX: THE MANGLED KEY TO THE TRAGEDY
The mangled black box from Airbus A320 is the key that will unlock the mystery of the doomed flight.
Yesterday air crash investigators cracked open the jet’s ****pit flight recorder after recovering it from the slopes of the French Alps.
It will explain why the Germanwings aircraft lost radio contact with air traffic controllers during a routine flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
Aircraft black boxes – in fact usually painted bright orange to help investigators find them – are often recovered intact, even from the most serious crashes. But pictures of the black box ****pit voice recorder recovered from the Airbus A320 – designed to store two hours of conversation and withstand impacts of as much as 3,400 times the force of gravity – show it had been dented, twisted and scarred by the impact of the collision.
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The airline’s chief executive, Thomas Winkelmann, has said one of the pilots had more than ten years’ experience, including more than 6,000 hours on A320s.
The evidence is understood to come from a ****pit voice recorder that is currently being analysed by accident investigators in Le Bourget, near Paris.
A spokesman for the BEA, France's accident investigation office, would not comment on the revelations last night.
Earlier in the day, BEA spokesman Remi Jouty confirmed voices could be heard on the damaged voice recorder, which covered the flight 'from departure to crash'.
But they warned that it could take 'days, weeks and even months' before analysts were able to determine exactly what it being said or what the noises are.
The ****pit voice recorder is designed to store two hours of conversation and withstand impacts of as much as 3,400 times the force of gravity.
It was hoped the device would yield clues about whether the crew became incapacitated or were battling a technical malfunction.
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CONTROLLERS' ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT PILOTS AFTER RADIO SILENCE
Air traffic controllers made several failed attempts to contact the pilots of the doomed Germanwings plane in the minutes after losing radio communication with the ****pit, an air crash report revealed.
Germany's BILD newspaper published on its website details of the first report about the crash which it claims was submitted by the French to the German government after the disaster.
It states: 'Normal operating conditions for the French air traffic control. All technical systems were in normal operation.'
It corroborates earlier reports that contact with the pilots was lost at 10.31am, adding: 'Germanwings 4U9525 leaves its cruising altitude without informing French air traffic control and starts a descent at an average rate of decline observed by radar... of 3,500 feet per minute'.
Air traffic controllers attempted to establish 'wireless connection on the operating frequency which is not answered' by the ****pit, the report says.
Further attempts are made by radio contact on the international emergency frequency, but there was again no response.
At 10.35am, air traffic controllers 'raise the internationally standardized "emergency level" (DETRESFA distress phase) and contacts the national headquarters of the French search and rescue service.'
One final and attempt is made to contact the pilots on the international emergency frequency a minute later, but that also fails.
The Germanwings flight disappeared from radar at 10.40am at an altitude of around 6,200ft, the report states.
Two minutes later - at 10.42am - air traffic control informs the national headquarters of the French search and rescue service about the loss of the radar target.
Two military helicopters are sent in the direction of the last known location, but are unable to detect the aircraft's emergency transmitter.
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The device should also allow investigators to detect automated aural alerts from the plane that would help in reconstructing the sequence of events that led to the plane's sudden descent.
The covering of the second black box flight recorder, which logs key flight data, was recovered yesterday from the mountainside but not the recorder itself, which is the size of an iPhone.
One flight safety expert said that the second recorder would need to be found in order for investigators to fully understand the circumstances leading up to the crash.
Debris from the jet, operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline, was found near Barcelonnette
Charred wreckage at the scene of the crash, where one worker described seeing children's belongings
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DREADFUL..
RIP with the Angels, all who died.....
