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CO-PILOT Germanwings Airbus that crashed on Tuesday in the French Alps is employed in September 2013 in the airline, and he had behind him 630 hours of flying, today announced that Lufthansa.
Lufthansa, Germanwings owner, not confirmed information from sources close to the investigation according to which one of the two pilots remained at the wheel, while the other remained locked out of the cockpit.
"We will do everything to get more information and we will not engage in speculation. The cause of the accident was entrusted to the competent authorities," he said with his hand Germanwings.
The pilot had more than ten years of experience and more than 6000 flight hours on the aircraft Airbus, Germanwings announced as early as Tuesday.
After the usual start of the year, one of the two pilots of the Airbus A320 that crashed Tuesday with 150 people, left the cockpit and could not return during the fall of the aircraft, according to a source close to the investigation who has knowledge of the recordings from the black boxes.
"At the beginning of the year can hear the crew normally speaks, then the noise of one of the seats to be withdrawn, doors that open and close, the sound that indicates a knock on the door, no sound is more conversation at that point until the fall" said a source close to the investigation, confirming information the New York Times.
The two pilots were talking in German. At the end of the year, you hear the alarm that alerts the proximity of the ground, announced that same source that he was unable to say whether the cockpit the pilot or co-pilot out.
On Thursday morning continued action of pulling the bodies and the search for the second black box of the aircraft, announced by the French police. Weather conditions at the scene are favorable, contacted the journalist AFP.