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