Germanwings plane crash: Andreas Lubitz 'rehearsed descent' on previous flight, says French report, More from Justin Huggler in Berlin. He writes: Lufthansa doubly refused to renew Andreas Lubitz’s medical certificate due to a heavy episode of depression, consistent with the French interim report.
The airline’s medical centre 1st declined to renew the certificate, that Lubitz required to be allowed to fly, at huis annual check-up in April 2009.
At the time Lubitz had suspended his pilot’s coaching for medical reasons. The airline didn't renew the certificate as a result of he was taking medication for depression.
Lubitz tried to own the certificate revived in Gregorian calendar month 2009, however the airline once more refused.
But simply period of time later, on twenty eight Gregorian calendar month 2009, he was issued with a brand new certificate, with a special endorsement that browse ‘‘***SIC**incl. PPL***’’.
This meant that any doctor had to contact the licensing authority before reviving the certificate in future.
This may are that the examiner may be familiar of Lubitz’s anamnesis, consistent with the report.
His certificate was revived annually thenceforth. He was due for an additional check-up in August this year.
12.25
Our correspondent in Berlin, Justin Huggler, says that passengers on the previous flight have spoken concerning their mishap.
He writes:
Back in March, a traveller on the flight from Düsseldorf to city delineated seeing the captain begin into the most cabin, exploit Andreas Lubizt alone within the cockpit.
During that point, we tend to currently grasp that Lubitz set the plane’s altitude to merely a hundred feet, in a very attainable rehearsal or abandoned 1st plan to crash the craft.
The traveller, named solely as Michael F, told Germany’s Bild newspaper that there was a tangle with the rest room at the front of the cabin.
He delineated seeing the captain walk the lenght of the plane, presumptively to the rear rest room.
That may have caused him to be out of the cockpit longer than he meant, exploit Lubitz alone at the controls.
Quote i used to be within the fifth row, I might see the front.
The drinks had been cleared away, it should are be associate degree hour once the beginning. I might see through the curtain once the cockpit door opened.
He went down the series, most likely to the rear rest room. once around 3 to 5 minutes he came back and opened the cockpit door.
The traveller, delineated as a frequent flyer, says he detected nothing out of the standard concerning the flight.
He saw Lubitz solely from behind, through the cockpit door that was open as he boarded.
He told Bild he was disturbed by the thought that Lubitz might have crashed the plane throughout his flight.
Quote I try and place it aside, however it comes back once more and once more.
12.15
The report contains the subsequent breakdown of events throughout the previous flight. It shows the erratic course the plane took:
On the previous flight, the subsequent facts are often noted:
at seven h nineteen min fifty nine, noises like those of the cockpit door gap then closing were recorded and corresponded to once the Captain left the cockpit; the airplane was then at cruise speed at flight level FL370 (37,000 ft);
at seven h twenty min twenty nine, the flight was transferred to the Bordeaux en-route management centre and also the crew was tutored to descend to flight level FL350 (35,000 ft), associate degree instruction browse back by the co-pilot;
at seven h twenty min thirty two, the craft was place into a descent to flight level FL350 , designated some seconds earlier
at seven h twenty min fifty, the chosen altitude ablated to a hundred linear unit for 3 seconds and so accumulated to the most price of forty nine,000 ft and stabilized again at 35,000 ft;
at seven h twenty one min ten, the Bordeaux management centre gave the crew the instruction to continue the descent to flight level FL210;
at seven h twenty one min sixteen, the chosen altitude was twenty one,000 ft;
from seven h twenty two min twenty seven, the chosen altitude was a hundred feet most of the time and adjusted many times till it stabilised at twenty five,000 linear unit at seven h twenty four min 13;
at seven h twenty four min fifteen, the buzzer to request access to the cockpit was recorded;
at seven h twenty four min twenty nine noises like those of the unlocking of the cockpit door then its gap was recorded and corresponded to the Captain’s come back to the cockpit.
According to the report, the recovered black boxes seem to point out that the captain left Lubitz alone on the deck for a brief time throughout the "rehearsal" departing flight, as he would once more throughout the fatal flight later that day, writes Justin Huggler in Berlin:
Quote throughout the captain's absence [on the rehearsal flight], Lubitz reprogrammed the auto-pilot with a series of wildly differing altitudes.
French traffic management tutored the flight to descend to thirty five,000 feet, however Lubitz instead designated associate degree altitude of simply a hundred feet.
That was a similar methodology he would use to crash the craft later within the day, however on this occasion he modified the altitude once more once simply 3 seconds.
He designated the most attainable input, of 49,000 feet, before ever-changing it a 3rd time to thirty five,000 feet, as tutored.
Air traffic management later tutored him to descend any, to 21,000 feet.
Lubitz then input a series of wildly totally different altitudes, starting from a hundred feet to thirty two,000 feet, however unbroken a hundred feet designated for a lot of of the time.
After that the cockpit door buzzer is detected on the voice recorder, followed by the sound of the door gap and also the captain returning to the deck.
It is unclear why the co-pilot entered such a spread of various altitudes. There square measure suggestions they were a rehearsal for the later crash. they'll conjointly indicate that Lubitz thought-about fucking the craft throughout that flight, or that he was in a very seriously unstable status.
On ensuing flight, Lubitz would once more profit of the captain exploit the deck to change the chosen altitude.
But on it occasion he wouldn't permit the captain into the cockpit, and continued to fly the plane into the bottom.
12.02
The report contains this graph of the plane's designated altitude on the "rehearsal" flight from Dusseldorf to city, throughout that Lubitz took advantage of the pilot's four-minute disappearance from th cockpit to practise inputting descents and ascents multiple times:11.48
Remi Jouty, director of the French BEA accident investigation agency, confirms Lubitz "rehearsed" the descent, however says he "can't speculate on what was happening within his head":
Quote will't|i can not|i am unable to} speculate on what was happening within his head; all I can say is that he modified this button to the minimum setting of a hundred feet and he did it many times
11.44
The section of the report on environmental condition contains the chilling detail that passengers looking of their windows would have had a transparent read of the disaster because it unfolded:
Quote the data equipped by Météo France shows that in cruise at flight level FL380, the airplane was flying in clear skies on top of some scattered cirrus kind clouds whose peaks were situated at concerning thirty two,000 ft. The wind
from the southwest was at concerning forty kt.
11.40
The Germanwings plane's pilot Patrick Sondenheimer had contacted the airline's maintenance service a couple of downside with the toilets at the front of the plane before the ultimate flight, the reports says:
Quote On twenty four March 2015, throughout the stop in city, before the accident flight, the Captain contacted the Germanwings maintenance service in Cologne a couple of downside regarding flushing of the front bathrooms on the aeroplane(7). The correspondent on the phonephone suggested resetting the system electrical fuse situated at the rear of the airplane. Since the disembarkment of the passengers had not finished, the Captain aforementioned he would perform this operation as before long as attainable and would contact the service once more if the matter persisted. No alternative calls were recorded.
11.29
In the interim report currently printed, the BEA confirms that the airplane pilot had "intentionally modified the autopilot settings to order the descent of the plane till its collision with the mountain range".
The BEA conjointly confirmed earlier German press reports that Lubitz had allotted a follow run in a very flight earlier that day.
Rémi Jouty, BEA director, aforementioned he had "practised this act" however with "no noticeable effect" throughout the outward flight.
11.26
The report has currently been printed here.
11.19
BEA officers have simply confirmed that Andreas Lubitz "rehearsed" the descent by "intentionally" turning off the autopilot on associate degree outward flight.
The BEA crash investigations workplace aforementioned the 27-year-old co-pilot had practiced the manouevre on a flight from Duesseldorf to city while not "noticeable effect" before fucking the plane into the mountains on his come back, killing all a hundred and fifty folks on board.
11.15
The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately fucking a plane within the French Alps in March, killing all a hundred and fifty folks on board, practiced a descent on the previous flight, consistent with a report due out nowadays.
Prosecutors believe 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz fast the captain out of the cockpit associate degreed veered the plane into an early descent on a flight from city to Duesseldorf on March twenty four.
German newspaper Bild, citing sources near France's BEA crash investigation agency, aforementioned associate degree interim report that the BEA is thanks to publish nowadays would say that Lubitz had practiced reducing flight altitude on the departing flight from Duesseldorf to city a similar day because the crash.
Bild cited the sources as spoken communication the BEA report would bring up a "controlled descent that lasted for minutes and that there was no physics justification".
The airline’s medical centre 1st declined to renew the certificate, that Lubitz required to be allowed to fly, at huis annual check-up in April 2009.
At the time Lubitz had suspended his pilot’s coaching for medical reasons. The airline didn't renew the certificate as a result of he was taking medication for depression.
Lubitz tried to own the certificate revived in Gregorian calendar month 2009, however the airline once more refused.
But simply period of time later, on twenty eight Gregorian calendar month 2009, he was issued with a brand new certificate, with a special endorsement that browse ‘‘***SIC**incl. PPL***’’.
This meant that any doctor had to contact the licensing authority before reviving the certificate in future.
This may are that the examiner may be familiar of Lubitz’s anamnesis, consistent with the report.
His certificate was revived annually thenceforth. He was due for an additional check-up in August this year.
12.25
Our correspondent in Berlin, Justin Huggler, says that passengers on the previous flight have spoken concerning their mishap.
He writes:
Back in March, a traveller on the flight from Düsseldorf to city delineated seeing the captain begin into the most cabin, exploit Andreas Lubizt alone within the cockpit.
During that point, we tend to currently grasp that Lubitz set the plane’s altitude to merely a hundred feet, in a very attainable rehearsal or abandoned 1st plan to crash the craft.
The traveller, named solely as Michael F, told Germany’s Bild newspaper that there was a tangle with the rest room at the front of the cabin.
He delineated seeing the captain walk the lenght of the plane, presumptively to the rear rest room.
That may have caused him to be out of the cockpit longer than he meant, exploit Lubitz alone at the controls.
Quote i used to be within the fifth row, I might see the front.
The drinks had been cleared away, it should are be associate degree hour once the beginning. I might see through the curtain once the cockpit door opened.
He went down the series, most likely to the rear rest room. once around 3 to 5 minutes he came back and opened the cockpit door.
The traveller, delineated as a frequent flyer, says he detected nothing out of the standard concerning the flight.
He saw Lubitz solely from behind, through the cockpit door that was open as he boarded.
He told Bild he was disturbed by the thought that Lubitz might have crashed the plane throughout his flight.
Quote I try and place it aside, however it comes back once more and once more.
12.15
The report contains the subsequent breakdown of events throughout the previous flight. It shows the erratic course the plane took:
On the previous flight, the subsequent facts are often noted:
at seven h nineteen min fifty nine, noises like those of the cockpit door gap then closing were recorded and corresponded to once the Captain left the cockpit; the airplane was then at cruise speed at flight level FL370 (37,000 ft);
at seven h twenty min twenty nine, the flight was transferred to the Bordeaux en-route management centre and also the crew was tutored to descend to flight level FL350 (35,000 ft), associate degree instruction browse back by the co-pilot;
at seven h twenty min thirty two, the craft was place into a descent to flight level FL350 , designated some seconds earlier
at seven h twenty min fifty, the chosen altitude ablated to a hundred linear unit for 3 seconds and so accumulated to the most price of forty nine,000 ft and stabilized again at 35,000 ft;
at seven h twenty one min ten, the Bordeaux management centre gave the crew the instruction to continue the descent to flight level FL210;
at seven h twenty one min sixteen, the chosen altitude was twenty one,000 ft;
from seven h twenty two min twenty seven, the chosen altitude was a hundred feet most of the time and adjusted many times till it stabilised at twenty five,000 linear unit at seven h twenty four min 13;
at seven h twenty four min fifteen, the buzzer to request access to the cockpit was recorded;
at seven h twenty four min twenty nine noises like those of the unlocking of the cockpit door then its gap was recorded and corresponded to the Captain’s come back to the cockpit.
According to the report, the recovered black boxes seem to point out that the captain left Lubitz alone on the deck for a brief time throughout the "rehearsal" departing flight, as he would once more throughout the fatal flight later that day, writes Justin Huggler in Berlin:
Quote throughout the captain's absence [on the rehearsal flight], Lubitz reprogrammed the auto-pilot with a series of wildly differing altitudes.
French traffic management tutored the flight to descend to thirty five,000 feet, however Lubitz instead designated associate degree altitude of simply a hundred feet.
That was a similar methodology he would use to crash the craft later within the day, however on this occasion he modified the altitude once more once simply 3 seconds.
He designated the most attainable input, of 49,000 feet, before ever-changing it a 3rd time to thirty five,000 feet, as tutored.
Air traffic management later tutored him to descend any, to 21,000 feet.
Lubitz then input a series of wildly totally different altitudes, starting from a hundred feet to thirty two,000 feet, however unbroken a hundred feet designated for a lot of of the time.
After that the cockpit door buzzer is detected on the voice recorder, followed by the sound of the door gap and also the captain returning to the deck.
It is unclear why the co-pilot entered such a spread of various altitudes. There square measure suggestions they were a rehearsal for the later crash. they'll conjointly indicate that Lubitz thought-about fucking the craft throughout that flight, or that he was in a very seriously unstable status.
On ensuing flight, Lubitz would once more profit of the captain exploit the deck to change the chosen altitude.
But on it occasion he wouldn't permit the captain into the cockpit, and continued to fly the plane into the bottom.
12.02
The report contains this graph of the plane's designated altitude on the "rehearsal" flight from Dusseldorf to city, throughout that Lubitz took advantage of the pilot's four-minute disappearance from th cockpit to practise inputting descents and ascents multiple times:11.48
Remi Jouty, director of the French BEA accident investigation agency, confirms Lubitz "rehearsed" the descent, however says he "can't speculate on what was happening within his head":
Quote will't|i can not|i am unable to} speculate on what was happening within his head; all I can say is that he modified this button to the minimum setting of a hundred feet and he did it many times
11.44
The section of the report on environmental condition contains the chilling detail that passengers looking of their windows would have had a transparent read of the disaster because it unfolded:
Quote the data equipped by Météo France shows that in cruise at flight level FL380, the airplane was flying in clear skies on top of some scattered cirrus kind clouds whose peaks were situated at concerning thirty two,000 ft. The wind
from the southwest was at concerning forty kt.
11.40
The Germanwings plane's pilot Patrick Sondenheimer had contacted the airline's maintenance service a couple of downside with the toilets at the front of the plane before the ultimate flight, the reports says:
Quote On twenty four March 2015, throughout the stop in city, before the accident flight, the Captain contacted the Germanwings maintenance service in Cologne a couple of downside regarding flushing of the front bathrooms on the aeroplane(7). The correspondent on the phonephone suggested resetting the system electrical fuse situated at the rear of the airplane. Since the disembarkment of the passengers had not finished, the Captain aforementioned he would perform this operation as before long as attainable and would contact the service once more if the matter persisted. No alternative calls were recorded.
11.29
In the interim report currently printed, the BEA confirms that the airplane pilot had "intentionally modified the autopilot settings to order the descent of the plane till its collision with the mountain range".
The BEA conjointly confirmed earlier German press reports that Lubitz had allotted a follow run in a very flight earlier that day.
Rémi Jouty, BEA director, aforementioned he had "practised this act" however with "no noticeable effect" throughout the outward flight.
11.26
The report has currently been printed here.
11.19
BEA officers have simply confirmed that Andreas Lubitz "rehearsed" the descent by "intentionally" turning off the autopilot on associate degree outward flight.
The BEA crash investigations workplace aforementioned the 27-year-old co-pilot had practiced the manouevre on a flight from Duesseldorf to city while not "noticeable effect" before fucking the plane into the mountains on his come back, killing all a hundred and fifty folks on board.
11.15
The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately fucking a plane within the French Alps in March, killing all a hundred and fifty folks on board, practiced a descent on the previous flight, consistent with a report due out nowadays.
Prosecutors believe 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz fast the captain out of the cockpit associate degreed veered the plane into an early descent on a flight from city to Duesseldorf on March twenty four.
German newspaper Bild, citing sources near France's BEA crash investigation agency, aforementioned associate degree interim report that the BEA is thanks to publish nowadays would say that Lubitz had practiced reducing flight altitude on the departing flight from Duesseldorf to city a similar day because the crash.
Bild cited the sources as spoken communication the BEA report would bring up a "controlled descent that lasted for minutes and that there was no physics justification".
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