Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Video Captures Final Moments Of Alps Crash

Mobile phone footage taken from inside the Germanwings flight during its final moments has reportedly been recovered from the crash site in the French Alps.
European newspapers Paris Match and Bild have reported that the video, which Sky News has not seen, was discovered on a mobile phone found among the wreckage of flight 4U 9525.
Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people, but the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them.
"One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages."
The newspaper added that metallic banging can be heard in the footage, before the screaming gets louder and the video ends.
It comes after Lufthansa revealed that the co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing the Germanwings plane told officials at a training school that he had gone through an "episode of severe depression".
Andreas Lubitz, 27, informed instructors in 2009 that he had to break off from his pilot training for several months because of his illness.
After he had resumed training six years ago, he provided the school with medical documents which showed he had gone through a "previous episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said.
Dusseldorf state prosecutors said on Monday that Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot's licence, but Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said last week the airline was not aware of a reason why Lubitz might deliberately crash a plane.


French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that all 150 victims of the plane crash will be identified by the end of the week.
Speaking at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Mr Hollande said: "The French interior minister confirmed that by the end of the week at the latest it will be possible to identify all of the victims thanks to DNA samples."
This contradicts an earlier report in the German newspaper Bild that the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.

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