voluntary, deliberate and premeditate premeditated. investigators now say the information recovered from the plane s charred flight data recorder shows the co-pilot changed the driver setting multiple times to speed up the plane as it headed straight into the french alps. the first reading of the recorder shows lubitz used autopilot to engage the aircraft down to 100 feet as he manually increased the speed. investigators say lubitz tried to shut down the mraep splane s alarms. it would have been apparent to the passengers something was wrong, that sense of speed building up increased wind noise would have given the sense something was wrong. reporter: the ger manman prosecutor said lubitz made searches on suicide methods and cockpit doors and their locks, one day before the crash.
what might have been on the mind of andreas lubitz just before that deadly crash. cnn s will ripley has this story. reporter: a stunning new revelation in the germanwings investigation. prosecutors say a tab let seized from andreas lubitz s apartment reveals a series of chilling internet searches in the week leading up to flight 9525, including the day before the crash. according to these search terms, the user searched for medical treatment and sought information on methods to commit suicide. on these one day, the user searched for several minutes with search terms relating to cockpit doors and their security measures. reporter: a european government official with detailed knowledge of the investigation, tells cnn all evidence points to the premeditated murder of 149 innocent people. as mourners remember the lives cut short, disturbing new details emerge about lubitz s
it s possible, but again, you know, when you hear some of the interactions, it doesn t sound like anyone noticed anything abnormal. the day before, it sounds like someone who had flown with him did not notice anything abnormal. less likely if someone was quite sedated, may be noticeable but maybe more likely to be noticed if he had become manic in some way, had flight of ideas and doing things that were irrational. those sorts of things might be more noticeable than to people on the staff. in the days leading up to the crash we re now told he actually searched on his computer for both suicide methods and security measures related to cockpit doors, sanjay, and you say that the searches are pointing to vastly different things. explain. well, look. i think this is the inflection point. i think this is where people have been sort of tiptoeing around or not sure what to make of it. it s again, one of the
today, this charred flight data recorder found buried in the mountain shows co-pilot andreas lubitz changed the driver setting multiple times to speed up the plane as it headed straight into the french alps, according to french investigators. the first reading of the recorder shows lubitz used auto pilot to engage the aircraft down to 100 feet as he manually increased the plane s speed. investigators say lubitz also tried to shut down the plane s alarms. it would have been fairly apparent to the passengers that something was wrong, that sense of speed building up increased wind noise would have definitely given the sense that something was wrong in addition to the descent. reporter: the german prosecutor says a tablet found in lieuthe co-pilot s apartment says he made searches on cockpit doors, the findings bolstering
this is a fox news alert. disturbing new information about the co-pilot who intentionally crashed the germanwings a 320 plane into the french alps. today german prosecutors saying in the days leading up to this vicious act the co-pilot had researched suicide methods and cockpit door security. and mark hall lem joins us live from germany. good evening, mark. so he was busy researching i guess the writing is on the wall what he was doing. good evening, greta. yes. this is from the düsseldorf public prosecutors today. they have been analyzing his recent internet history. browser history on a tablet computer in his apartment which was in düsseldorf as well as in the west of germany. it shows the 27-year-old apparently researching means of suicide and also medical treatment methods. one of his searches into ways of committing suicide the prosecution said was conducted on the monday of last week. so, one day before the crash. his past search entries also showed that on at least one day h