Germanwings Plane Crash: One Of The Pilots Was locked Out

Mystery surrounds the Germanwings crash after it was revealed one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit.

Early analysis of the cockpit voice recorder suggests the man was trying to smash the door down to get back in.

However, there is not yet any indication why he left or what happened to the pilot left in charge of the plane.

A senior military official involved in the investigation described a "very smooth, very cool"

conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf.

Then the audio indicated that one of the men left the cockpit and could not re-enter.

"The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer," the investigator said.

"And then he hits the door stronger and no answer.

"There is never an answer."

He said: "You can hear he is trying to smash the door down."

While the audio seemed to give some insight into the circumstances leading up to the Germanwings crash, it also left many questions unanswered.

"We don't know yet the reason why one of the guys went out," said the official, who requested anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

"But what is sure is that at the very end of the flight, the other pilot is alone and does not open the door."

An anonymous post on a website for pilots claimed to have inside knowledge of the investigation.
Its author wrote: “CVR [cockpit voice recorder] data has been read.

“ It seems structural failure (windshield? not determined yet) . It was quick ... sound of cracks but crew initiated emergency descent by autopilot then they weren’t heard any more.”

But Carsten Spohr, chief executive of the budget airline’s parent company Lufthansa, said the jet was fit to fly.

He went on: "It is inexplicable this could happen to a plane free of technical problems and with an experienced, Lufthansa-trained pilot."


Lufthansa said the 24-year-old jet had repairs to a landing gear hatch on Monday – but insisted that this was not a safety issue and that repairs had been done to reduce noise.

Search teams today continued the hunt for the second black box amid grim conditions at the crash scene – where bodies and debris lay strewn across the mountainside.

After being winched down from helicopters, as the site is inaccessible by foot, they scoured the landscape.

A total of 38 police, doctors and rescue workers were at the scene of the crash, working in pairs and methodically crisscrossing the site.


Culled From Mirror