Germanwings Flight Crashed

Recently, we had a horrible tragedy with flight 9525 Germanwings crashing in The Alps. We're trying to (1) figure out what in the world happened because there was no distress call, they did not lose pressure in the cabin, there was no mid-air explosion.

And it looks like we finally have our answer and the answer is a deeply disturbing one that creates a whole... another mystery. It (2) turns out that the 28-year-old co-pilot, by the name of Andreas Lubitz, (3) wound up (4) locking out the other pilot from the cockpit; (5) closed the doors down and then directed the plane straight into the ground for 8 terrifying minutes ... the descent and all 150 people onboard died.

And I'm gonna give you some details on that story but, understand, that among all the people killed, about half of them are German and then, the rest, from all over the world including 3 Americans... a lot of Spaniards. There were 16 10th graders and their 2 teachers on the plane as well. And they all perished.

It must have been an unbelievable.. those 8 last minutes; the terror and the fright is unimaginable.

So, Brice Robin who is a prosecutor in Marseille had this to say about what hapened. He said: "This was voluntary. This was deliberate. He refused to open the cabin door in order to (6) let the pilot back in. I repeat. He refused to (7) let the pilot back in. He's the one who pressed the button that allowed the plane to begin descending and lose altitude."

So, because they recovered the black box they can tell he's not saying anything in there. You hear banging on the door and it's obvious that the main pilot, with a tremendous amount of experience, 6300 hours of flight experience... he's trying to (8) get back in, he won't let him back in and it's obvious that he directed the plane to head right into the ground.

So, the co-pilot did it. Nobody knows why he did it but it's clear from evidence that he did.

Robin goes no to explain "Again, no distress signal, zero, no 'help me' or SOS. Nothing of this sort was received by air-traffic control."

So, it's not like Lubitz lost control of the flight. He actually, purposefully pointed it down and didn't ask for any help.

On the tape, we actually start hearing banging. Someone actually trying to (9) break the door down . That's why the alarms where (10) let off - cause these were protocols that were put in place in case of any terror attack.

Now, here's the irony of this. Because of the terror attacks they made the cockpit doors so that they could be closed, locked from the inside. So now there is a code that the crew has to open the door. But even that code can be overridden if the pilots inside the cockpit lock it out for good. So the main pilot has the code, he enters the code but the override is from inside the cockpit from his co-pilot. It is an unbelievable mystery because they have... the recordings from earlier in the flight... everything is congenial... there's nothing out of the ordinary, they're having normal, professional conversations... the pilot (11) gets up , out of the cockpit, once they're up in the air and steady. Presumably to go to the restaurant or whatever he had to do. He tries to get back in and that's when he's locked out and that's when they start diving.

No one has any idea why this guy did it. He has no connection to terrorist groups. Relatively recent pilot, trained back in 2008 and 2009. Eventually started flying for these guying in the year 2013. It's pretty recent. He's only got 630 hours of flight experience but no ones experienced any trouble from him before or heard of any trouble from him before. He's approved by the Federal Aviation Administration and in the end they said "he passed all medical tests, he passed all aviation tests, he passed all checks. He was 100% able to fly without any limitations, without any reservations. His accomplishments were excellent. Nothing was noticed that wasn't proper."

I mean, if ever there was a situation where it appears nothing could have been done, it looks like it's this one. I mean, no profiling would have caught this guy, he didn't show any reaction in his actions that lead anyone to believe that he might do anything along these lines. Nothing in his history... amazing. And you can't call it a suicide cause he took 150 people with him. No, no, that's... the authorities refuse to call it a suicide. So, at this point, it's unclear as to why he did it but the tragedy is very clear. Those poor 150 people, I mean, they, obviously, have (12) passed away and the way they passed away is about as horrific as you could imagine.

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