Crash of the A320: the second black box was found – BBC

The recording of the flight parameters found Thursday should remove the last doubts about the tragic end of the Barcelona-Düsseldorf above Seyne-les-Alpes.

She was buried in a ravine. The second black box of the Airbus A320 that crashed on March 24 in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, was found Thursday afternoon by a policeman PGHM in Chamonix. It will be sent in the evening in Paris to be used by the Bureau of Investigation and analysis for the safety of civil aviation (BEA), which is responsible for the technical investigation. The state of this black box, damaged by fire, “gives hope” the possibility of exploitation, said the prosecutor of Marseilles, Brice Robin. The duration to decrypt a black box varies depending on its condition, a few hours to several weeks.

The Flight Data Recorder records every second by second data of a flight over a period of 25 hours. Hundreds of parameters are considered: speed, altitude, trajectory, etc. Reading his information should lift the last lingering doubts about the tragic end of 4U9525 flight. The first black box found the same day of the crash, had already provided valuable guidance to investigators. Listening to sounds and conversations inside the cockpit was determined that the co-pilot, only the controls, was most likely deliberately precipitated the aircraft on the ground.

The track suicide seems the most likely. Andreas Lubitz had, in the week before the tragedy, makes Internet research on suicide and armored cockpit doors, revealed Thursday the floor of Düsseldorf. A320 The first officer was also considered medical treatment methods. The prosecutor did not specify what the illness was. But before getting his pilot’s license, the German had followed psychotherapeutic treatment for suicidal tendencies. In addition to his psychological problems, Andreas Lubitz also suffered from vision problems that had earned him a demerit diagnostic medicine German labor. On the day of the tragedy, the person should even have been off work.

The prosecutor of Marseilles, Brice Robin, also reported on the identification of bodies, with discovery of the second black box, was the priority of research teams. At this time, investigators have isolated DNA samples in 2285 including 150 different profiles. “This does not mean that we have identified all the victims. It remains to perform the post-mortem DNA compared to DNA ante mortem “cautions the magistrate. This work will begin early next week. Three to five weeks would still be needed to identify the victims.