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the plane going into
Barcelona and did not
say if it would be looking
into other flights where
Lubitz was in the cockpit.
LYNNE O’DONNELL
Associated Press
AMIR SHAH
Associated Press
JAMEY KEATEN
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However, the agency said it why Lubitz would have
is continuing to look at the wanted to crash the plane,
“systemic failings that may German authorities say he
MATTHEW LEE
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company Lufthansa
technically could have
known about Lubitz’
apparent rehearsal on
the outbound flight, but
only if it had looked at
the flight data in the short
period while the plane was
unloading and loading
passengers in Barcelona.
Germanwings said
it “welcomed any new
information that can help
clarify what happened” but
said it would not comment
on the BEA report
because of the ongoing
investigation. It would also
not comment on whether
other flights involving
Lubitz were now under
review. The airline referred
all questions to French
prosecutors and the French
civil aviation authority.
Amar, the French
union official, suggested
there was little that air
authorities could have
done between the two
flight legs. Authorities
would need access to the
cockpit recorders and
the data downloaded to
know whether Lubitz had
repeatedly chosen a 100-
foot altitude during the
flight.
Duesseldorf prosecutors
who are investigating the
co-pilot said they don’t
know if any passengers
on the first flight into
Barcelona were even
questioned.
Lufthansa spokesman
Helmut Tolksdorf said
Wednesday by phone that
the airline had not yet
had time to analyze the
new details released by
the French authorities and
planned no immediate
comment.
The BEA report didn’t
analyze why Lubitz
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researched suicide methods
and cockpit door security
online in the week before
the crash.
Duesseldorf prosecutors
said they would not
comment on the BEA
report until they have
finished evaluating Lubitz’s
computer and other
documents.
KABUL, Afghanistan
(AP) — An Afghan court on
Wednesday convicted and
sentenced four men to death
for their role in the brutal
mob killing of a woman in
Kabul in March — a slaying
that shocked the nation and
spurred calls for authorities
to ensure women’s rights to
equality and protection from
violence.
The sentences were part
of a trial of 49 suspects,
including 19 police officers,
over the March 19 killing
of the 27-year-old woman
named Farkhunda who was
beaten to death in a frenzied
attack sparked by a bogus
accusation that she had
burned a copy of the Quran.
The trial, which began
Saturday, only involved
two full days of court
proceedings — an unusual
swiftness in the slow-
moving Afghan judicial
system. It was broadcast
live on national television,
reflecting huge public
interest in the case.
Judge Safiullah Mojadedi
handed down the four death
sentences at Afghanistan’s
period while the pilot was
out of the cockpit before
resetting the controls,
France’s BEA investigation
agency said in an interim
report on the crash.
Prosecutors have said
that Lubitz intentionally
locked the pilot out of the
cockpit and crashed the
plane on its return flight to
Duesseldorf.
Wednesday’s 30-page
report said the same crew
was aboard both flights —
and the pilot appeared to
have left the cockpit during
the earlier flight as well, for
about 4 % minutes.
On the first flight
into Barcelona, shortly
after the pilot left, the
“selected altitude” of the
flight changed repeatedly,
including several times
being set as low as 100
feet (30 meters) above the
ground. The report says
co-pilot Lubitz also put
the engines on idle, which
gives the plane the ability
to quickly descend.
It would be highly
unusual for a pilot to
repeatedly set a plane for
such a low altitude for no
apparent reason. However,
the report says that Lubitz
did so while he was
being asked by air traffic
controllers to bring the
plane down gradually from
PARIS (AP) — The
co-pilot of Germanwings
Flight 9525 appeared to
have practiced a controlled
descent on his flight into
Barcelona just two hours
before he intentionally
crashed the A320 jet into a
mountainside on the return
flight to Duesseldorf, air
accident investigators said
Wednesday.
Authorities are still
puzzling over why co-pilot
Andreas Lubitz, who had
suffered from suicidal
tendencies and depression
in the past, sent the
Barcelona-to-Duesseldorf
flight straight into the
French Alps on March 24,
killing all 150 people on
board.
This latest development
about an earlier flight
appears to support the
assumption that the crash
was not only deliberate
but also premeditated, and
raises questions about all
of the flights where Lubitz
was in the cockpit.
Lubitz seemed to be
toying with the plane’s
settings on a March 24
flight from Duesseldorf to
Barcelona, programming it
for sharp descent multiple
times in a 4 1/2-minute
game, stored in a potassium
mine for safekeeping
during the war and then
mailed home to his wife,
are from an art gallery in
the central German city
of Dessau. They are works
by the Flemish Baroque
painter Frans Francken
III, the German painter
Christian Wilhelm Ernst
Dietrich and Austrian
artist Franz de Paula
Ferg, according to the
foundation.
The other two — a
painting of Queen Victoria
and her eldest daughter,
Victoria, who married
German Emperor Frederick
III, and a painting of
Charles I — had been in a
castle near Frankfurt that
was confiscated by the U.S.
military in 1945 and turned
into an officers’ club. They
were purchased by an
everybody knows that more
than 40 people were involved
in martyring and burning
and beating my sister,” said
Mujibullah, who like many
Afghans, including his sister,
uses only one name.
“Eighteen people have
been freed. The court should
punish them and that should
be a lesson for anyone who
would commit this sort
of crime, anywhere in our
country, in the future,” he
added.
Farkhunda’s killing
shocked many Afghans,
though some public and
religious figures said it would
have been justified if she had
in fact damaged a Quran.
A presidential investigation
later found that she had
not damaged a copy of the
Muslim holy book.
The last agonizing and
brutal moments of her life
were captured on mobile
phone cameras by witnesses
and those in the mob that
attacked her. The videos
of the assault circulated
widely on social media. They
showed her being punched,
kicked, beaten with planks
of wood, pushed by police
onto a roof and dropped
from it, thrown in the street
and run over by a car. She
then had a lump of concrete
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Five paintings
missing since World War
II are being returned to
collections in Germany at
the behest of the heirs of
their American acquirers.
The paintings, including
three won by an American
GI in a poker game, were
turned over to the German
government Tuesday. Their
return was organized by
the State Department
and the Monuments
Men Foundation, which
promotes the work of those
who protected cultural
works during the war and
seeks to track down and
repatriate objects that went
missing.
The three paintings won
by the GI in the poker
dropped on her and her body
was dragged along the road
outside the mosque were the
assault took place and tossed
onto the bank of the Kabul
River. A crowd watched as
her body was set on fire.
The footage also showed
policemen largely standing
and some even participating
in the attack.
The incident sparked
nationwide outrage and
soul-searching, as well as
a civil society movement
seeking to limit the power of
clerics, strengthen the rule
of law and improve women’s
rights.
Farkhunda’s parents
addressed the court
before the sentences were
handed down, asking that
the accused be dealt with
according to the law.
French prosecutors are
conducting a separate
criminal investigation into
the crash.
It remains unclear
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American woman who was
serving in Germany as a
librarian in the U.S. Special
Services after the war, said
the foundation.
The paintings are among
hundreds of thousands
of cultural items missing
since the end of the war
that the Monuments Men
Foundation hopes to help
recover and return to their
rightful owners. The heirs
of the GI and the librarian
contacted the foundation
last year amid publicity
surrounding the release
of the George Clooney
film “Monuments Men,”
an adaptation of the book
by the same name that
memorializes the team of
museum directors, curators
and educators deployed to
prevent the destruction of
historic treasures during
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have led to this accident or
similar events.”
The investigators are
focusing on “the current
balance between medical
confidentiality and flight
safety,” a reference to
whether German rules on
patient privacy may have
prevented Lufthansa from
being fully aware of Lubitz’
Primary Court in Kabul
on Wednesday. He also
sentenced eight of the
defendants to 16 years in
prison and dropped charges
against 18. The judge will
rule on the remaining
suspects — the 19 policemen
— on Saturday and their
verdicts will be announced
on Sunday, Mojadedi said.
The defendants have the
right to appeal. The charges
included assault, murder
and encouraging others to
participate in the assault.
The police officers were
charged with neglecting
their duties and failing to
prevent the attack.
Those sentenced to death
include a peddler who
made the Quran-burning
accusation that sparked the
attack against Farkhunda;
a man who threw two large
rocks at her; the driver of the
car that ran over her and the
man who set her body alight.
Farkhunda’s brother,
Mujibullah, told The
Associated Press that her
family was angered by
the leniency of the court
toward the majority of the
defendants.
“The outcome of the trial is
not fair and we do not accept
it — you saw just four people
sentenced to death but
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35,000 feet to 21,000 feet
for its scheduled descent to
Barcelona.
A chart released by the
BEA showed the plane
didn’t actually descend
sharply while Lubitz was
repeatedly adjusting the
settings, so the passengers
and crew might not have
noticed any change. The
BEA report did not make it
clear whether all the steps
needed for the repeated
descents were taken by
Lubitz.
“The captain didn’t
realize at all, because the
co-pilot’s tests during
the outgoing flight took
place during a normal,
preprogrammed descent
and it never had an impact
on the plane’s trajectory,”
said Remi Jouty, the
director of BEA.
Aviation experts said
the findings were clearly
unusual.
“The process of going up
and down with the selected
altitude is not normal —
but I can’t tell you what
was going on in his head,”
said Antoine Amar, a top
official in France’s main
pilots union SNPL and
an Air France pilot who
has flown the A320, the
same type of plane in the
Germanwings crash.
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mental health issues.
The BEA said
investigators are also
looking at “compromises”
made on security after
the Sept. 11 attacks in the
U.S., notably on cockpit
door locking systems
meant to protect pilots
from terrorists. Since
the Germanwings crash,
several airlines have
imposed rules requiring
two people in the cockpit at
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Davis, Marcia & Borders, Gary. Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 141, No. 79, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 2015, newspaper, May 7, 2015; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1428654/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.