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'Open the goddamn door', Germanwings captain shouted desperately
Germanwings captain Patrick Sonderheimer can be heard desperately shouted "open the goddamn door", according to Bild.
The tabloid said accident investigators heard a recording which starts with the captain apologizing to passengers for a 26-minute delay in departing Barcelona, and promising to make up the time on the flight to Dusseldorf.
Andreas Lubitz's remains recovered, identified
The dismembered body of the Germanwings co-pilot was found on Saturday near the crash site in the French Alps.
As broadcast by German media, authorities were able to positively ID the body through DNA extraction.
The development follows news that large amounts of pharmaceuticals prescribed by a psychiatrist were found in Andreas Lubitz's residence.
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Police Searches House of Germanwings Co-Pilot
Police searched the house of the Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz on Thursday, as it emerged that he intentionally initiated the descent of the plane, which crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday.
According to the local government in Dusseldorf, the most recent regular security check on Lubitz, which had been carried out on January 27, established nothing unusual.
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Andreas Lubitz: Brief portrait of fateful co-pilot
28-year-old Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of the fateful Germanwings flight, was a relatively inexperienced pilot, with only 630 hours of flight time.
He began working for Germanwings (a Lufthansa affiliate) since September 2013, but it is yet unknown where he flew before.
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Germanwings Co-pilot Deliberately Crashed Plane
Brice Robin, the Marseille public prosecutor, told a press conference that the co-pilot of the Germanwings jet that went down in the French Alps, killing 150 people, had crashed the plane deliberately.
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Germanwings crash: Cockpit pilot most likely committed suicide
French aviation experts examining the black box and recordings from the Germanwings flight believe that the crash may have been a deliberate, suicidal choice by the pilot in the cockpit. The audio reports show that one of the pilots, the more experienced of the two, remained locked outside the cockpit.
See Germanwings debris at the site (video)
The Germanwings passenger plane fragments scattered across an Alpine mountains are all that is left of the Airbus A320 carrying 150 people en route to Dusseldorf, Germany, from Barcelona, Spain.
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One Germanwings Pilot 'Left Cockpit' before French Alps Crash
One of the pilots got out of the cockpit of the Germanwings Airbus A320 and could not get back in, the New York Times quotes a "senior military official" as saying.
The plane with 150 people on board was flying from Barcelona in Spain to Düsseldorf in Germany when it went down and plowed into the mountains near the French town of Barcelonette, 100 km north of Nice.
No Serbians among Germanwings plane crash victims
BELGRADE - No Serbian nationals were on board the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps, killing all 144 passengers and six crew members, the Serbian Foreign Ministry told Tanjug on Wednesday.
"Based on the list of names that we have seen, there were no Serbian nationals on board," the ministry's press service said.
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No Bulgarians Were Aboard Crashed Germanwings Plane - French MFA
According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, no Bulgarian citizens were featured on the list of passengers, who were on board of the Germanwings plane, which crashed on Tuesday.
At present the same information is being confirmed by the German Foreign Ministry, the press service of Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry informs.