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Accidents
FDR Confirms Germanwings Co-pilot Set Autopilot For Crash
Information recovered from the A320's descent confirmed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz set the autopilot for a fatal controlled flight into the French Alps.
The flight data recorder of the Germanwings A320 was partly damaged during the crash but investigators have been able to retrieve information from it. (Photo: BEA)
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Thierry Dubois
• Writer
April 3, 2015
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