Andreas
Lubitz, the co-pilot suspected of deliberately flying a German
airliner into the French Alps, appears to have rehearsed preparations
for the plane’s fatal dive during an earlier flight on the day of
the crash, the French authorities said in a preliminary
reportpublished on Wednesday.
The
initial findings by the Bureau of Investigations and Analyses show
that the co-pilot repeatedly adjusted the Germanwings plane’s
altitude dial to 100 feet during its outbound flight to Barcelona,
Spain, from Düsseldorf, Germany, on March 24.
The
maneuvers, which were captured by the plane’s flight data recorder,
took place while the captain had left the cockpit temporarily.
“To
us, it is clear that this was some kind of rehearsal,” said Rémi
Jouty, the bureau’s director. “We see the same actions being
taken in the same circumstances, at a moment when the co-pilot was
alone in the cockpit.”
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