Pilot A320 collected information about the device cockpit doors – RBC

A group of French gendarmes before sending to the crash site 320

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The second pilot passenger aircraft A320 that crashed in the south of France on March 24 Andreas Lubicz interested in security system door cockpit and methods of suicide, Reuters reported citing the prosecutor’s office of Düsseldorf.

In computer, found in the apartment Ljubica in Dusseldorf, investigators found SEARCHES “ways to commit suicide” and “door crew cab,” said the prosecutor Ralph Herrenbryuk. “On the one hand, he [Lubicz] was interested in methods of treatment, on the other – has studied the types and methods of suicide,” – said the prosecutor. At least one day devoted to the study of the mechanism Lubicz door crew cab, told Herrenbryuk.

Prosecutor Declassified data refer to the period from 16 to 23 March. Their analysis is expected to take several days.

The aircraft airline Germanwings Airbus A320 flying from Barcelona – Dusseldorf, crashed in the French Alps on March 24. The victims of the collapse of steel 150 people – 144 passengers and six crew members. On the same day in the area of ​​the crash was discovered by the first flight data recorder, recording which showed that the aircraft could be deliberately destroyed by the co-pilot. According to the interpretation of the data “black box”, the crew commander Patrick Zondenhaymer a few minutes left the cabin, and when he returned, the door was locked. Lubicz did not respond to calls to open the door and did not say a word to the collision of the aircraft to the ground.

After the publication of these data, airlines began to enter the “rule of two persons” in the cockpit. Appropriate recommendation and issued a European Aviation Safety Agency. The regulator has recommended airlines to follow the rule that in the cockpit must be two crew members, one of whom must be a qualified pilot.

On Thursday, April 2 found a second “black box”. Its contents have not yet disclosed.

Initially the investigation is considering several versions of the causes of the tragedy, including the depressurization of the aircraft, equipment failure on board and the incident in the cockpit. After decoding the first flight recorder priority version was intentional destruction of the aircraft.

Actions Ljubica prosecutors France regarded as manslaughter. Attorney Marcel Brice Robin explained that the action of the second pilot was “a desire to destroy the plane”, in the case of premeditated murder, “he must have been a conscious desire to kill».

The last few days, the media began to report the details of the past Ljubica Several years ago he was treated by a psychiatrist, taking antidepressants had vision problems and hidden from the doctors that worked as a pilot.