“NYT”: one of the Airbus pilots came out of the cabin and could not come back – Gazeta.pl

26.03. New York (PAP / Reuters, Media) – One of the pilots of the plane Germanwings line that crashed Tuesday in the French Alps, he left the cabin and was not able to return before the plane went down – said on Thursday the newspaper “New York Times”, citing on the evidence of the cockpit voice recorder.

“A man knocks gently on the door and there was no response,” – said the “NYT” investigators, who claimed anonymity. “Then, strongly hits the door, and further there is no answer. The answer never comes” – indicates investigators. And he adds that “is heard as the (male) tries to break down the door.”

“We do not know why one of (pilot) came out” of the cabin, “but it is certain that at the end of the second flight and the pilot is not opening the door” – says the New York newspaper investigators.

The Journal adds that data from the cockpit voice recorder only “deepen the mystery surrounding the disaster and do not indicate the state or action of the pilot, who remained in the cabin.”

Lufthansa spokesman, the parent company cost airlines Germanwings, said that the carrier is aware of an article in the “NYT”. But “we do not have – as stipulated – information from the authorities that would confirm these reports and we need more information. We will not participate in speculation about the causes of the disaster.”

French investigators, investigating the causes of the disaster, managed to recover some data from one black box. CVR device, or Cockpit Voice Recorder, record any sounds from four microphones in the cockpit – pilots talk among themselves and with the control tower, as well as all other sounds and alarms that are heard cabin.

Please search for other black-box machine, or a flight data recorder (FDR device, Flight Data Recorder). On Wednesday found its housing, but no content.

Committee. Plane crashes (BEA) claimed that it is too early to give the cause of the tragedy, which killed 150 people. Investigators do not know, among others, why the pilots did not respond to attempts to contact them by flight controllers.

The head of the BEA stipulated that investigators do not rule out any hypothesis. He stressed, however, that the Airbus A320 did not explode in the air and “flew to the end”. Crashed into the side of a mountain, when he was at the height of 6 thousand. feet or 1820 meters – he said.

Airbus took off Tuesday before the hour. 10 of Barcelona and flew to Duesseldorf in Germany. Crashed in the village of Meolans-Revel in the French Alps. No one survived the crash. Most of the victims are Germans and Spaniards; among the dead are also citizens of several other countries.