Berlin – The co-pilot of the crashed German Wings machine has searched shortly before the disaster in the Internet for information about suicide and the safety of the cockpit doors. This was announced by the investigators on Thursday in Dusseldorf. Thus, there are more and more evidence that Andreas Lubitz planned the death flights longer and steered the Airbus with 150 people on board targeted in a massif in the French Alps.
Last certainty what happened on March 24, is to bring the evaluation of the second flight recorder, the rescuers found according to the French authorities on the scene. Politicians and the aviation industry to advise the meantime, if the safety mechanisms of the cockpit doors are to be changed again.
“The browser history was not deleted, and in particular could which are reproduced in the period from 16.3. to 23/03/2015 invoked with this unit Searches “, said the prosecutor after evaluation of a computer with that found in the Düsseldorf housing of the 27-year-olds.
The first officer is suspected of having locked the pilot from the cockpit and controlled the A320 aircraft that was flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf with intent to disaster. 72 of the 150 dead were, according to the Foreign Office German.
Since shortly after the crash, it was known that the co-pilot of the flight 4U9525 in his training in the Pilot School Lufthansa in Bremen had a break of several months. On the fatal day he was on sick leave
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On Tuesday of this week Lufthansa announced then that Lubitz the school had in 2009 informed of a “decayed severe depressive episode” in connection with the resumption of training in an e-mail. German Wings is a subsidiary of Lufthansa.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the investigating agency said in Dusseldorf, the user of the tablets had “the one dealing with medical treatments for other information on types and possibilities of implementing suicide”.
At least one day he had moreover explained over several minutes with search terms on the cockpit doors and their security
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What terms were entered exactly in search engines, the Authority kept to himself. Further investigation results are not expected in the next few days.
The voice recorder machine had found rescuers still unlucky. From the records of the French prosecution closed already, that the copilot colleagues probably shut out and the machine contributed to disaster
After the Voice Recorder forces have now found even after several days of searching the second part of the so-called black box -. The so-called flight data recorder. The prosecutor’s office in Marseille made initially no information whether the data of the second black box can be evaluated
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The flight data recorder records course, speed, altitude and angle of inclination of the machine. Stored GPS data provide information on the precise location of an accident. The flight data recorder can record for 25 hours, also information prior flights.
Experts the German aviation industry will discuss further lessons from the crash. A new working group should start after Easter. The announced Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) and the President of the Federation of German aviation industry, Klaus-Peter Siegloch on. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) brought an ID required for passengers on flights within Europe this week.
The group of experts should, inter alia, on possible changes to the rules for permanent locking of cockpit doors advice. Should also be examined further medical and psychological checks which the airworthiness of pilots is detected. In response to the crash of the German airlines had already decided that getting two people to be in the cockpit.
De Maizière proposed the introduction of a general ID required at airports. The airlines should check the identity of their passengers also on flights within the Schengen area, the minister said in Dresden. Otherwise, the airlines know may not know who actually sit on the plane
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So far, passengers on flights within the Schengen -space not always show a passport before they embark on a machine. De Maizière sees this as a security problem. Background is the Schengen Agreement, which, with few exceptions, all EU Member States and other individual countries have joined. In the Schengen area, there is no systematic border controls.
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