cockpit voice recording published by german newspaper bild. most terrifying is the description of captain patrick sonderheimer s frantic efforts to get back in the cockpit. screaming for god s sake open the door. we have senior correspondent frederik pleitgen in cologne. reporter: it started off normally and it was delayed. before the flight took off, patrick sonderheimer told lubitz because of the delay, he had not managed to go to the bathroom in barcelona. lubitz said he could go anytime. it seems he may have been setting sonderheimer up to leave the cockpit. the flight takes off and once they reach 38,000 feet lubitz says to sonderheimer you can go
account is accurate in this cockpit voice recording, in an hour and a half of audio, this was a deliberate act that results in the deaths of 150 people and 149 of them were helpless on this plane, aware that something was wrong for a full eight minutes before the flight hit the french alps. horrifying to think about. some key things in the reporting, first of all, before the plane even took off, the pilot cold his co-pilot that he hadn t gone to the bathroom in barcelona. this was a two-hour flight from barcelona to dusseldorf. because had the pilot used the restroom before hand perhaps he would have stayed in the cockpit the spare time and the co-pilot would not have had the opportunity to do what happened in the subsequent minutes. at 2:27 a.m. the plane reached it s cruising altitude of 3,800
joining us from germany is fred what can you tell us? reporter: hi frank excerpts from that transcript from the cockpit voice recording have been made public by a german newspaper which is a large tabloid called the build. in the beginning stages it seems this is a normal flight however, you re at that point the captain of the flight tells the co-pilot the man who would later crash the plane he forgot to go to the bathroom before taking off in barcelona. this is key because the moment that the captain went to the bathroom was when he was locked out by the co-pilot and that plane crashed into the mountainside. it appears as though the co-pilot at several times along the early stages of the flight keeps reminding the captain didn t you want to do to the bathroom? you can go now any time. then at some point the captain does indeed leave the cockpit. it happens after that frank, is absolutely chilling according to the transcript that of course we
erik from getting in and interrupting that plan and saving the plane. we were told last night that in the closing moments of the cockpit voice recording before the crash you could hear somebody knocking to be let into the cockpit, and then knocking more insistently, and then eventually trying to pound the door down to get into the cockpit. we were told that last night. what french investigators announced today is that in addition to that noise of the pilot trying to get back in in addition to that noise in the very last instant before the crash you could hear what sounded to be the passengers on that erik screaming as they realized what the consequence were of this drama at the front of the cabin, this drama they could undoubtedly see happening at the cockpit door as they realized what the consequences of that drama were going to be for their speeding plane as it steered into those mountains. planes do not crash often. over the last ten years,
first got into the cockpit. something went wrong when he was in there. the co-pilot noticed and was able to get him out long enough to lock him out. the door was very helpful there. in the ethiopian incident, that locked door is how the co-pilot was able to hijack it. and that locked door is how the homicidal pilot was able to wreck that plane. and now french authorities say they believe it was the deliberate actions of the co-pilot that steered that paper into the mountain said, and it was that locked door that prevented the captain of that aircraft from getting in and interrupting that plan and saving the plane. we were told last night that in the closing moments of the cockpit voice recording before the crash, you could hear system