PARIS (AP) — The French air accident investigation agency says the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly accelerated the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps.
The co-pilot who may have caused the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 was being treated for depression. Did those around him believe that he was so depressed that he could have taken the lives of others?
UPDATE: 9:15 a.m. (0815 GMT, 4:15 a.m.) German police have searched the home of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz in Duesseldorf and seized material that will now be examined as part of the investigation into the crash that killed 150 people in the French Alps.
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Today we speak with a representative from Radio Jihad named Vito Esposito. John Naegele is in with our craft beer of the week. New York State Senator Joseph Griffo also talks to us about a number of issues including budget, education, and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighting in New York.
The mayor of a town close to the site of the plane crash in the French Alps that killed 150 says bereaved families are expected to begin arriving in the town Wednesday morning.
French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says debris from the crash of an Airbus A320 has been located and the plane crashed at 2,000 meters altitude in the Alps.