Germanwings Co- Pilot deliberately crashed the plane + Pics of victims

There is a press conference going on right now on TV and sadly the co pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed on Tuesday deliberately crashed the plane killing everyone along. His name has not yet been mentioned perhaps because they might want to shield his family from harm before they do so......

I planned this report from daily news for later but you might as well read it now. 

Rip to all the departed. Read the interesting report. 


One of the pilots of the ill-fated Germanwings plane was locked out of the cockpit 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 cockpit and could not re-enter.

CRASH SITE

COCKPIT

The pilot is heard knocking lightly on the door of the cockpit before trying to 'smash the door down' when his colleague fails to answer, according to the New York Times. 

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.

An unnamed military investigator told the newspaper: ‘The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer.

‘And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer. You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.’ 

The claim will inevitably lead to speculation that the crash was deliberate – either caused by a suicidal pilot or as a result of terrorist activity.

 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 cockpit. 

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 cockpit 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 cockpit 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.

Intriguingly, neither pilot on board the Airbus A320 flight has been named, nor any details of their age or nationality released by Germanwings. 

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 cockpit 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 is being said or what the noises are.The cockpit 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. 

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 cockpit, 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 cockpit, 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. 

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.

16 TEENAGERS, TWO BABIES AND A FATHER: VICTIMS OF THE FLIGHT

Germanwings chief executive Thomas Winkelmann said those who died came from at least 13 different countries - with 72 German nationals and 49 people from Spain confirmed to have been on passenger lists for the plane. 

There has been some confusion over numbers of passengers and countries they are from, because of dual nationalities.      

 

UK

Martyn Matthews, a father-of-two with another child on the way. Mr Matthews, of Wolverhampton, was on business in Barcelona. 

Marina Bandrés López-Belio, from Huesca, was travelling with her seven-month-old baby Julian from her uncle's funeral in Zaragoza. 

They had been living in Manchester. Ms Lopez-Belio had not been able to fly home direct to Manchester, so had opted for a flight to Dusseldorf. 

Paul Andrew Bramley, 28, originally from Hull, was also a passenger on the flight, the Foreign Office confirmed.  

US 

U.S. government contractor Yvonne Selke, 57, and her graduate daughter Emily, of Nokesville, Virginia, were both passengers on the doomed flight.

Yvonne was a long-serving and highly regarded employee of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., while Emily graduated from Drexel University, Philadelphia, in 2013.

Raymond Selke confirmed on Wednesday that his wife and daughter were among the 150 people who died on a Germanwings flight from Spain to Germany the day before.

In a statement, he said: 'Our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of Yvonne and Emily Selke. Two wonderful, caring, amazing people who meant so much to so many. At this difficult time we respectfully ask for privacy and your prayers.’

A third U.S. citizen was also on the crashed plane, but the State Department has yet to release the name of the victim. 

Germany

Class of 16 year 10 pupils from Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium school in west Germany on an exchange trip to Barcelona

Their two Spanish teachers -  Sonja Cercek and Stefanie T.

Maria Radner, 34, an opera singer at the Deutsche Oper am Rhine in Dusseldorf. The contralto was travelling with her husband and baby after having performed in Barcelona, with fellow opera singer Oleg Bryjak, who also perished.

Thomas Treppe, a fashion consultant, had been travelling on business when the plane crashed, El Pais reported. 

María de Pablo Nuño, a Spanish teacher who had travelled to see her family in Barcelona.  

Spain

Josep Sabaté Casellas, worked for Espirit and was travelling to a business meeting in Germany. He was married with three children and was believed to have a fourth child on the way. 

Teacher Pilar Vicente Sebastián, 52, had been on her way to see her two children who were studying in Dusseldorf, according to Levante. 

A newly married 23-year-old man from La Llagosta, who got married on Saturday, was travelling with his wife, es reported. 

A grandmother, her daughter and grandaughter from Sant Cugat del Vallès in Catalonia were all travelling together on a visit to Dusseldorf, according to the Huffington Post. 

Manuel Rives, 52, was a married father of three and representative for the major Spanish trade union in Delphi, reported El Pais. Colleagues were seen carrying his photo, remembering the worker, today. 

The newspaper also reported that businessman and amateur rower Carles Masanas Milla was going to a food fair in Cologne. 

Ariadna Falguera, 33, wife of a member of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) party, was confirmed to have been among the passengers, according to El Pais.   

Australia 

Mother and son Carol and Greig Friday, of Victoria in Australia.  

Belgium

Christian Driessens, 59, a father and grandfather, travelled on planes almost every week for business and was fondly remembered by his family as an avid globetrotter, who loved to travel.   

Kazakhstan

Opera singer Oleg Bryjak, 54, a baritone, had just performed Richard Wagner's 'Siegfried' at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu.

'WE CAN'T WAIT TO COME HOME': STUDENTS' TRAGIC FINAL MESSAGES

German schoolchildren on board the ill-fated Germanwings flight had texted friends to say they ‘couldn’t wait to come home’ just moments before the aircraft crashed in the French Alps.

Many of the 16 exchange students had messaged friends after boarding the Airbus A320 to say they missed their families and were bringing friends souvenirs from Spain.

The heartbreaking details of their final texts emerged hours after a picture that showed some of the group with Spanish children who had come to Germany on the first leg of the exchange trip.

Among the class from the small town of Haltern am See was 16-year-old Elena Bless, who friends described as a ‘happy girl’ who dreamed of going to university and travelling the world.

‘She had been sending me messages on WhatsApp and Snap Chat and had been very happy about the trip. She had had a good time.’ Elena’s best friend and classmate Philippa said.

‘She sent me pictures of the group together and the different sights they saw. They looked like they had had fun.’

The group of year 10 students from the Josef Konig Gymnasium School were returning from a seven day exchange trip with host families in the village of Llinars del Valles, near Barcelona.

Philippa, who was in the same class as Elena but had opted out of the fateful trip, said: ‘Elena enjoyed studying Spanish. She was very happy all the time and had a positive character. 

'She wanted to travel the world and go to university. We were excited about them all coming back as they said they had lots of pictures to show us and lots to tell us.’

But just half an hour after taking off from Barcelona, Germanwings Flight FU 9525 crashed in a remote region of the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.  

‘Elena and our other friends on the trip had planned things to do on their return. I just can’t believe they won’t be coming back.’

Elena’s mother, Annette Bless, confirmed tonight that her daughter had been one of the children on the plane and added: ‘I’m too upset to say anything else.’

Passengers at Dusseldorf Airport reported hearing harrowing screams after parents who had been waiting to pick up their children were ushered into a private room and told of the crash.

Philippa said: ‘I did think that it would have been fun to go there but now this has happened I’m relieved I didn’t.’

Describing the moment the news broke at school, she added: ‘There was an announcement that the school was closing because of a serious incident.

‘We didn’t know what it was. When I went outside I saw people were crying and saying there had been a crash but I didn’t believe it. I thought it was a nightmare.' 

Another student Malin, 17, said traumatic scenes unfolded as news began to spread yesterday.

She said: ‘A friend sent me an SMS message saying something terrible had happened to the flight. When I got to the school the students were running about of the school in tears, shouting "Oh my God". It was terrible. Everyone was in shock.’

The school, which was the focal point for the small town’s grief yesterday, was visited by hundreds of students and residents who lit candles and laid flowers.

Ulrich Wessel, principal of the grammar school, was unable to sleep yesterday morning and arrived at the school at 3am to prepare for the students.

He said: ‘I couldn't sleep at all. All I could think of doing was coming here to write my assembly for the pupils, to try and find the words to explain what happened to their friends.’

Mayor of the town Bodo Klimpel said: ‘You see me stunned and a little without words. 

'On Tuesday, a week ago, we sent 16 cheerful young people with two young female colleagues on a trip and what was intended to be a joyous trip, ended in tragedy.

He added: ‘At the school is at this moment the husband of one of the two teachers, newly married for less than six months. 

'It is a tragedy, it leaves us speechless and we have to learn how to deal with.'

In the special assembly at the school, which received a call of support from the German leader Angela Merkel yesterday, the names of the 18 were read out and a candle was lit for each one.

Outside the school a heartbreakingly poignant sign was placed in front of a growing shine, it read: ‘Yesterday we were many. Today we are alone.’ 

culled dailymail.