THE CO-PILOT OF GERMANWINGS FLIGHT 4U9525 "INTENTIONALLY" CRASHED THE AIRBUS WITH 150 PEOPLE ON BOARD INTO THE FRENCH ALPS

The co-pilot of Germanwings 9525 had sole control of the doomed flight that crashed into the French Alps early Tuesday and "wanted to destroy this plane," a French prosecutor said Thursday.

The cockpit voice recorder, recovered on Wednesday from the rugged terrain north of Nice appeared to show the pilot locked out of the cockpit and knocking on the door, first politely, then frantically in the moments before the jet, carrying 150 passengers and crew, began a rapid descent that killed all aboard.

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appeared to intentionally crash the plane, prosecutors said. 

Brice Robin, a Marseilles-based prosecutor told Reuters the evidence from the cockpit voice recorder, one of two "black boxes" and the only one recovered so far, seems to show the co-pilot, identified as Andreas Lubitz, refusing to open the cabin door as he began the eight-minute descent "manually and intentionally." Screams can be heard from passengers in the final seconds of their lives, officials said. The Airbus 320, which was en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, crashed into the mountain at 435 miles per hour, officials said. 

Germanwings, a low-budget carrier operated by Lufthansa, did not release the name of the pilot. Robin insisted in a news conference Thursday morning that Lubitz, a German from the central city of Montabaur, was not a known terrorist.

"A terrorist?" he said in response to a question. "Absolutely not."

culled from 'Fox News'