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French investigators to release report on Germanwings crash

May 06, 2015 06:05 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 05:11 pm IST - PARIS

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Rescue workers are seen near debris at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 near Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps, March 30, 2015. The young German co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, suspected of deliberately crashing a passenger plane in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board including himself, told his girlfriend he was in psychiatric treatment, and that he was planning a spectacular gesture that everyone would remember, the German daily Bild reported on Saturday. REUTERS/Claude Paris/Pool

Rescue workers are seen near debris at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 near Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps, March 30, 2015. The young German co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, suspected of deliberately crashing a passenger plane in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board including himself, told his girlfriend he was in psychiatric treatment, and that he was planning a spectacular gesture that everyone would remember, the German daily Bild reported on Saturday. REUTERS/Claude Paris/Pool

France’s air accident investigation agency says it will release an interim report about the crash of Germanwings Flight 4525, amid lingering questions about why the co-pilot appeared to intentionally drive the plane into the French Alps.

The agency, known as BEA, will publish the report Wednesday. It announced the release after German newspaper Bild reported what it said were details from the report.

Prosecutors have said that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the A320 jet into a mountainside on March 24, while en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. Cockpit voice recordings indicate Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit, while data recordings indicate that he repeatedly sped up the plane as brought it down.

All 150 people aboard the plane were killed.

Video showing Germanwings 4525 crash:

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