The captain of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French alps
with 150 people on board earlier this week reportedly tried to break
into the cockpit with an axe once he realized he was locked out,
according to German tabloid Bild.
Officials have confirmed that the cockpit voice recorder recovered
from the crash site shows that the captain tried to break down the
reinforced cockpit door after the co-pilot refused to open it.
French officials on Thursday blamed the plane's co-pilot, 27-year-old
Andreas Lubitz, for the crash that killed everyone on board.
Authorities said it was his "intention to destroy this plane."
On the cockpit voice recording recovered from the crash site, Lubitz
could be heard breathing from when the captain left the cockpit until
the plane crashed, but he did not say a word. The captain was banging on
the cockpit door and trying to break it down, but Lubitz would not open
the door.
French authorities contend that Lubitz input the command to start the plane's descent after the captain left the cockpit.
Bild
also reported on Friday that Lubitz spent a year and a half in psychiatric treatment for a "major depressive episode." He also reportedly had a "serious relationship crisis" with his girlfriend before the crash.
A spokeswoman for Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings, said on Friday
the airline would not comment on the state of health of the pilot.
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