And now, the question is, why?
According to a report of the recovered voice recorder:
For the last 20 minutes the conversation was normal, courteous, nothing abnormal.
Then we heard the captain talk and the copilot's response appeared laconic.
We heard the captain ask the copilot to take control, then we hear the noise of a seat that goes back and a door open, we can assume he went to relieve himself.
The co-pilot was alone. It is it this moment that the copilot manipulates the buttons of flight monitoring system to action the descent of the plane.
The action of this selectioner of altitude can only be deliberate.
We hear the captain then speaks via an interphone to speak to the copilot, no response of copilot, he taps on door, no response of copilot, all we can hear is the sound of breathing, until impact suggesting the co-pilot was alive until impact.
UK Telegraph
Possibilities range from a medical emergency to something more nefarious, such as a suicide mission, CNN aviation analysts said before the prosecutor's news conference.
Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of airlineratings.com, said the cockpit door has three positions, citing A320 captains and the aircraft manual -- unlocked, normal and locked.
The door would usually be in the "normal" position, but if the Times report is true, it would appear that after one of the pilots left the cockpit, it was switched to the "locked" position. This prevents the other pilot from using a keypad and emergency code to get in from the outside, he said.
The chances of this happening accidentally if the [co]pilot became incapacitated, at the same time as him knocking the side stick to put the plane into a dive, would appear to be "beyond the realms of mathematical possibility," Thomas said.
Officials previously said they hadn't ruled out terrorism, but that it seems unlikely.
CNN
Why? Because the co-pilot’s name was Lubitz and not Mahmud?
According to NBC, Lubitz possessed a United States-issued private pilot’s license.
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