Man who murdered everybody aboard Flight 4U9525

Germanwings co-pilot - 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz (above) - locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it has been revealed


The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it was sensationally revealed today by UK's dailymail.
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 - 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz - locked his captain out after the senior officer left the cockpit.
At that point, Lubitz used 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 700kmh (430mph).
'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'.

Earlier in the flight, Mr Robin said Lubitz's responses were initially courteous, but became 'curt' when the captain began the mid-flight briefing on the planned landing of the plane.

The captain - named by local media as German father-of-two Patrick Sonderheimer - then left the cockpit but found himself locked out when he tried to re-enter.
Mr Robin said: 'We hear the pilot asking the co-pilot to take over and we hear the sound of a chair being pushed back and a door closing so we assume that the captain went to the toilet or something.
'So the co-pilot is on his own, and it is while he's on his own that the co-pilot is in charge of the plane and uses the flight management system to start the descent of the plane.
'At this altitude, this can only be done voluntarily. We hear several shouts from the captain asking to get in, speaking through the intercom system, but there's no answer from the cockpit.'
Audio from the recording captures Mr Sonderheimer furiously pounding on the door to no avail.

Mr Robin said Lubitz 'voluntarily' refused to open the door, adding that his breathing was normal throughout the final minutes of the flight.

He said: 'His breath was not of somebody who was struggling. He never said a single word. It was total silence in the cockpit for the ten past minutes. Nothing.'
Air Traffic Control at Marseille asked for a distress signal, but there is still no response.
He added: 'So the plane becomes a priority for a forced landing.
'Control asks other planes to contact this Airbus and no answer is forthcoming.
'There are alarm systems which indicate to all those on board the proximity of the ground. Then we hear noises of someone trying to break into the door.
'The door is reinforced according to international standards.'

Mr Robin went on: 'Just before final impact we hear the sound of a first impact. It's believed that the plane may have hit something before the final impact. 

'There is no distress signal or Mayday signal. No answer was received despite numerous calls from the tower.'
Referring to Lubitz, Mr Robin said: 'He did this for a reason which we don't know why, but we can only deduct that he destroyed this plane.
'We have asked for information from the German investigation on both his profession and personal background'.
Mr Robin said he had no known links with terrorism, adding: 'There is no reason to suspect a terrorist attack.'
And asked whether he believed the crash that killed 150 people was the result of suicide, he said: 'People who commit suicide usually do so alone... I don't call it a suicide.'
Responding to revelations, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said all pilots undergo annual medical checks, but not special psychiatric assessments beyond training.
He added: 'He passed all medical exams, all checks. He was 100 per cent fit to fly without any restrictions.
'I am not a lawyer. I am the CEO of a big company. If one person takes 149 people with him to death, it is not suicide.'
However, it emerged today that Lubitz had to stop his pilot training in 2008 because he was depressed and suffering 'burnout'.
A schoolmate told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he had taken a break because of depression.
The woman said: 'Apparently he had burnout, he was in depression.'
His mother and father, who only discovered that their son was a mass murderer after they travelled to the crash site with the victims' families, are expected to be questioned by police later.

Under guard: Police keep the media away from the house where pilot Andreas Lubitz lived in Montabaur, Germany, after it was revealed he was responsible for the death of all 150 people on board the Airbus A320

 German police prepare to open the house believed to belong to crashed Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz

 In turmoil: Relatives of the victims board a bus after their arrival at Marseille airport ahead of the press conference by French prosecutor Brice Robin

 The door sign at the house of Andreas Lubitz in Montabaur, Germany. He had just 600 hours of flying experience after joining Germanwings in 2013 straight from training

 'He gave off a good feeling': Peter Ruecker, a member of the glider club in Montabaur who watched Lubitz learn to fly, said the Germanwings pilot showed no signs of depression when he saw him last autumn

 Klaus Radke, chairman of the LSC Westerwald aviation club where Lubitz was a member, described the Germanwings co-pilot as a 'normal, open-minded person'

French prosecutor Brice Robin sensationally reveals that 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'

 A bus transporting the families of the Germanwings victims is escorted by French police into Seyne-les-Alpes, where the remains of those on board the plane were being taken by helicopter from the crash site

 Principal of the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school Ulrich Wessel (second left) and students gather in front of flowers and candles to pay tribute to the 16 children and two teachers who died in the Airbus disaster

 People hold a minute of silence outside Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in Haltern am See

 A woman signs a condolence book in Seyne-les-Alpes church, France, in memory of Germanwings victims

 Audio taken from the black box voice recorder (pictured) that was salvaged from the obliterated wreckage of the Airbus A320 indicates the pilot left the cockpit and could not re-enter, it has been reported

 Access to the cockpit door on the Germanwings Airbus A320 (like the one above) can be disabled from inside the flight deck, raising speculation that one of the pilots deliberately locked the other ou

 The Cockpit Door Locking System, pictured, has several safety features to prevent unauthorised access to the cabin, however, this can be overridden if the flight crew become incapacitated for any reason

 Debris from the jet, operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline, was found near Barcelonnette