Airbus A320 from Germanwings crashes in France

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http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ ... a-recorder

French accident investigators have found the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed on March 24 in the French Alps.

The breakthrough in the investigation was announced by French prosecutor Brice Robin, who is handling the pending criminal charges, with a short statement on April 2 confirming that
“the second black box has just been found by investigators at the site of the crash.”

Assuming the FDR is not too badly damaged,
the data it contains could provide essential information concerning the aircraft’s speed, altitude, acceleration and direction.

It can also confirm the timings of radio transmissions from the cockpit.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32167778

Germanwings crash: Second Alps flight recorder found

2 April 2015 Last updated at 16:20 BST

Authorities in France say the second flight recorder has been found from the wreckage of the Germanwings plane which crashed in the Alps last week.

The flight's voice recorder suggested co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately caused the disaster, by locking the senior pilot out of the cockpit and putting the plane into a premature descent.

It is hoped the second recorder will provide more flight data, which may paint a clearer picture of what happened.

[Gerard]

Criminal investigators have reported that they checked a tablet-PC of the co-pilot and found that he had recently searched the internet for "suicide" and "cockpit door".

Gerard

[Stratofreighter]

Rescuers found the second black box flight recorder blackened and buried in the soil of the Alps

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32173632

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... to-410878/

The flight data recorder
from the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on 24 March shows that the co-pilot
on several occasions
increased the speed of the aircraft's descent,
according to French accident investigation agency BEA.

The agency, which is now reviewing the FDR,
adds that the co-pilot also set the autopilot to descend the aircraft to an altitude of 100ft.