德翼失事客机副驾驶疑失恋 黑匣子录音曝光

编者语：德国警方目前所查了副驾驶卢比茨的两个住处，带走了电脑、笔记本电脑和其他文件，警方有“重大发现”，“我们发现了一些东西，并将进行测试，可能是了解真相的非常重大的线索，目前不能透露。”卢比茨最近疑似经历了痛苦的感情挫折，他之前曾有过抑郁症，但通过心理评估。

The motives of the young co-pilot who appeared to have slammed the Germanwings plane into a French mountainside on Tuesday remain a mystery more than two days later.

German authorities searched the Dusseldorf home of Andreas Lubitz for evidenceThursday, looking for clues as to why he might have piloted the aircraft into French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. Five investigators went “through the apartment, looking for clues as to what the co-pilot’s motivation might have been,” the city’s police spokesman Markuz Diesczery said in televised comments, “if he did indeed bring the plane down.”

Earlier in the day, the French prosecutor investigating the deadly crash stunned relatives, officials and much of Europe, by telling reporters in an extraordinarily candid and chilling briefing that Lubitz apparently locked the seasoned captain out of the cockpit and “had a willingness to destroy the aircraft.”

“It was a voluntary action of the co-pilot,” Brice Robin, the Marseille prosecutor, said. “It is intentional, so we are going to have to change the nature of the investigation.”

The revelation transformed in an instant what most people thought was a tragic accident, into a criminal case of huge proportions. The focus is now on the young pilot with 18 months’ experience, who, according to the prosecutor, manipulated the controls to take the plane into its descent for about 10 minutes, until it smashed into the mountainside at 500 miles per hour.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the revelations added a “new, simply incomprehensible dimension” to Tuesday’s fatal crash.

The mystery is why Lubitz, 28, from Montabaur, Germany, took himself, five colleagues and 144 passengers to a catastrophic death. He did all that without saying a single word, while the captain banged frantically on the cockpit door, attempting to get in as the aircraft plummeted downwards, the prosecutor said. He displayed no doubt that it was intentional. “I’m not using the word suicide because I do not know,” Robin said. “What I can say is that he voluntarily allowed the plane to descend, to lose altitude.”

The horrifying last minutes of the flight were captured on the cockpit voice recorder which rescue workers found amid the wreckage within hours of the crash on Tuesday. Detailing what the audio recording showed, Robin said the captain, Patrick Sonderheimer from Düsseldorf, is heard starting to prepare the details for the eventual landing at that German city, to which it was flying from Barcelona.

Robin said the recording showed about 20 minutes of “cordial” and “normal” banter between Sonderheimer and Lubitz. Sonderheimer then asked Lubitz to take over, and Lubitz gave a “laconic” one-word reply, Robin said. Sonderheimer left the cockpit, mostlikely to go to the toilet, then returned a few minutes later and asked Lubitz to open the door, after punching in the cockpit door code on the digital keypad outside. There was no answer, and with the door locked from the inside, the captain could not gain access.

With the captain desperately banging on the door, Lubitz remained completely silent, as the plane steadily descended at about 3,000 ft. per minute in a drastic diversion from the flight path, whose coordinates were set in the computer. “He was breathing normally,” Robin said. “It was not the breathing of someone suffering from any kind of illness.” Instead, “There was no word, no word, no word for the last 10 minutes. He voluntarily refused to open the door and turned the button to get down the plane.”