First Officer hijacks the plane: Germanwings Flight 9525

 

Flight 9525 Flight Path

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings flight 9525 was on its way from Barcelona El-Prat Airport, Spain to Düsseldorf Airport, Germany. Its a scheduled international flight operated by Germanwings. The aircraft was a 24year old Airbus A320-211 registered D-AIPX. There were 144 passengers and 6 crew members on-board. The captain on-board the plane was Captain Patrick Sondenheimer. And the first officer on-board the plane was First Officer Andreas Lubitz. At 10:01AM, Flight 9525 takes off from Barcelona. 27 minutes into the flight, the plane reaches its cruising altitude of 38,000ft. The captain goes to the washroom. And then Lubitz locks him out of the cockpit. Then, Lubitz begans to descend the plane at around -3400ft/min. The Air Traffic Controllers try to contact flight 9525. But there was no response. A French military Mirage jet was scrambled from the Orange-Caritat Air Base to intercept the aircraft. Radar contact was lost at 10:40AM; at the time, the aircraft had descended to 6,175 feet (1,880 m), and crashed in the remote commune of Prads-Haute-Bléone, 100 km (62 mi; 54 nmi) north-west of Nice, France. Sadly, no one on-board survived this crash. After the crash, german detectives found a letter written by a doctor indicating Lubitz had been declared unfit to work. Germanwings stated it had not received a sick note from Lubitz for the day of the flight. The following day, authorities again searched Lubitz's home where they found evidence he suffered from a psychosomatic illness and was taking prescription drugs. Criminal investigators said Lubitz's web searches on his tablet computer in the days leading up to the crash included "ways to commit suicide" and "cockpit doors and their security provisions".