Germanwings Co-Pilot Locked The Pilot Out Of The Cockpit and Crashed The Plane Full of 150 People Intentionally

NBC - The co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane appears to have “intentionally” brought the plane down while his captain was locked out of the cockpit, prosecutors said Thursday.

First Officer Andreas Lubitz, 28, was alone at the controls of the Airbus A320 as it began its rapid descent, Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin told a news conference. Passengers’ cries were heard on the plane’s cockpit voice recorder in the moments just before the plane slammed into the French Alps, Brice said.

“Banging” sounds also were audible, he said, suggesting the captain was trying to force his way back into the cockpit. However, the reinforced cockpit door was locked from the inside and could not be overridden, even with a coded entry panel.

“If he had been able to open this door, the captain would have done it,” Brice said.

Lubitz, a German national from the town of Montabaur, “didn’t say a word” during the descent, according to Brice.

“There was no reason to put the plane into a descent, nor to not respond to… air traffic controllers,” he said. “Was it suicide? I’m not using the word, I don’t know. Given the information I have at this time … I can tell you that he deliberately made possible the loss of altitude of the aircraft.”

Annnnd I’m done flying I think.  That’s pretty much it for me.  Gonna pull a John Madden and just start taking gigantic tour buses everywhere I need to go.  Do some cross country car trips with Tony Kornheiser or something.  I mean as if bad weather, random turbulence, bird strikes, mechanical failures, faulty equipment, fires and terrorists weren’t enough to worry about.  Now you’re telling me there’s a chance my co-pilot might just quietly lock the door and nose dive the plane straight into a mountain range at 435 mph?  Yeahhh fuck that.  And the descent took like 8 minutes too, gives me chills just thinking about it.  RIP to the 150 people who were unlucky enough to get stuck on this asshole’s plane.