New reports claim Airbus crash voice recorder reveals pilot 'was locked out of cockpit'
- 9 years ago
French emergency workers have removed the first bodies from the mountainside where a Germanwings Airbus crashed on Tuesday killing all 150 people on board.
They were taken by helicopter to the nearby town of Seyne-Les Alpes.
Meanwhile crash investigators say they have extracted what’s described as “usable data” from one of the plane’s two “black boxes” found among the debris.
In a special report the New York Times claims that sources close to the investigation have revealed there is evidence from the recordings showing that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not get back in before the flight went down.
It said the pilot outside is heard knocking at the door but there is no answer from his colleague.
However France’s BEA air incident investigation bureau has said it is still far too early to draw meaningful conclusions on why the plane went down.
The retrieval of the recordings comes as more than 300 police, fire brigade and dozens of forensic experts have been
They were taken by helicopter to the nearby town of Seyne-Les Alpes.
Meanwhile crash investigators say they have extracted what’s described as “usable data” from one of the plane’s two “black boxes” found among the debris.
In a special report the New York Times claims that sources close to the investigation have revealed there is evidence from the recordings showing that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not get back in before the flight went down.
It said the pilot outside is heard knocking at the door but there is no answer from his colleague.
However France’s BEA air incident investigation bureau has said it is still far too early to draw meaningful conclusions on why the plane went down.
The retrieval of the recordings comes as more than 300 police, fire brigade and dozens of forensic experts have been