Germanwings pilot was out of the cockpit before crash

Germanwings pilot was out of the cockpit before crash

French investigators probing said they had a breakthrough with the recovery of an audio file from the Airbus jet’s black box. According to the evidence from a cockpit voice recorder, one pilot left the cockpit before the plane started to descent.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door, and there is no answer. And then he hits the door stronger, and no answer. There is never an answer.” -  the investigator said, reports Lenta.ru with the reference to NYT.

Investigator added that it is still unclear why the second pilot did not respond. During the descent there was not any communication from the cockpit to air traffic controllers or any other signal of an emergency.

Among the theories that have been put forward by air safety analysts not involved in the investigation is the possibility that a pilot could have been incapacitated by a sudden event such as a fire or a drop in cabin pressure, leaving the pilots unconcious.

Meanwhile, the second black box is also retreived, but many questions remain unanswered about the fate of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, which left 150 people dead when it slammed into the southern French Alps on Tuesday morning.