Co-pilot crashed Germanwings jet on purpose

Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Jul 5, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>The chief prosecutor investigating Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings jetliner in the French Alps has said cockpit voice recordings indicate that 28-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately locked the pilot out of the cockpit before sending the Airbus jet into its deadly dive. "... [T]he interpretation we can</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mary-bruno-crosscut-com/">Mary Bruno</a></p> 
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            <p>The chief prosecutor investigating Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings jetliner in the French Alps has said cockpit voice recordings indicate that 28-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately locked the pilot out of the cockpit before sending the Airbus jet into its deadly dive. "... [T]he interpretation we can give at this time," said prosecutor Brice Robin, "is that the co-pilot through voluntary abstention refused to open the door of the cockpit to the commander, and activated the button that commands the loss of altitude.” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/world/europe/germanwings-crash.html?hp=&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Read more</a> in The New York Times.</p>
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The chief prosecutor investigating Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings jetliner in the French Alps has said cockpit voice recordings indicate that 28-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately locked the pilot out of the cockpit before sending the Airbus jet into its deadly dive. "... [T]he interpretation we can give at this time," said prosecutor Brice Robin, "is that the co-pilot through voluntary abstention refused to open the door of the cockpit to the commander, and activated the button that commands the loss of altitude.” Read more in The New York Times.

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,