Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 News Updates -- March 26, 2015

Daily Mail: BREAKING NEWS: Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz DELIBERATELY crashed Flight 4U9525 into mountain to 'destroy the plane' after locking his captain out of cockpit, reveals French prosecutor

* Black box voice recorder reveals final chilling moments of Airbus A320
* Prosecutor: 'Death was instant. You only hear screams in final seconds'
* Co-pilot was named today as 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz
* Prosecutor says he does not believe disaster was terrorism or suicide

The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it was sensationally revealed today.

French prosecutor Brice Robin gave further chilling details of the final ten minutes in the cockpit before the Airbus A320 plunged into the French Alps killing 150 people.

Revealing data extracted from the black box voice recorder, he said the co-pilot - named as 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz - locked his captain out after the senior officer left the cockpit.

At that point, Lubitz uses the flight managing system to put the plane into a descent, something that can only be done manually - and deliberately.

He said: 'The intention was to destroy the plane. Death was instant. The plane hit the mountain at 700km per hour.

'I don't think that the passengers realised what was happening until the last moments because on the recording you only hear the screams in the final seconds'.

Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 News Updates -- March 26, 2015

Germanwings crash latest updates -- BBC
Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 News Updates -- The Telegraph
Germanwings co-pilot intended to destroy plane, says French prosecutor – live updates -- The Guardian
Germanwings plane crash live: Andreas Lubitz 'intentionally crashed' Flight 9525 into Alps -- The Independent
Updates on the Germanwings Plane Crash Investigation -- NYT
Airbus A320 plane crash in Southern France LIVE UPDATES -- RT
Live: Germanwings co-pilot intentionally destroyed plane, say French prosecutors -- First Post

Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane' -- BBC
French prosecutor: Co-pilot wanted to 'destroy' the plane -- AP
Germanwings co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane', prosecutor says -- France 24
Co-pilot made 'deliberate attempt' to crash Germanwings plane, prosecutor says -- CNN
Germanwings flight 4U9525 deliberately flown into mountain, says prosecutor -- The Guardian
'We only hear screams in the last seconds. Death was instant' -- The Telegraph
Germanwings co-pilot wanted to 'destroy the plane,' locked pilot out of cockpit, says prosecutor -- FOX News
Germanwings crash: pilot locked out of plane's cockpit, say reports -- The Guardian
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France -- NYT
Co-pilot appears to have crashed Germanwings plane deliberately: French prosecutor -- Reuters
'You can hear he is trying to smash the door down' -- The Telegraph
Germanwings co-pilot appears to have crashed plane deliberately – prosecutor -- RT
Germanwings Co-Pilot Likely Voluntarily Crashed A320 Plane - Prosecutor -- Sputnik
French prosecutor says pilot deliberately crashed plane -- Al Jazeera
Germanwings crash: pilot locked out of plane's cockpit, say reports -- The Guardian
Report: Black Box Indicates One Germanwings Pilot Had Left Cockpit -- VOA
Germanwings co-pilot had no terrorism background: German minister -- Reuters

What we know about Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 -- Washington Post
Germanwings Crash: What We Know About the Co-Pilot -- ABC News
Germanwings Pilot Who Crashed Jet Started Flying as Youth -- Bloomberg
Who was Andreas Lubitz? Germanwings co-pilot who murdered 150 passengers in deliberate Alps crash -- IBTimes
Andreas Lubitz Germanwings co-pilot: First picture as it's revealed he deliberately flew jet into Alps -- Mirror
Andreas Lubitz, Germanwings Flight 4U9525 co-pilot, showed no signs of plan -- CBC

Germanwings Crash Throws Spotlight on Cockpit Security -- WSJ
Germanwings crash: safety of cockpit doors on all planes questioned -- The Guardian