Germanwings Flight 9525 crash site (Photo : Reuters)
German and French media sources claim that a cellphone video shows Germanwings Flight 9525's cabin in the final moments before its crash. Meanwhile, a police spokesman denied that the accounts were valid.
The Germanwings Airbus airplane transporting 150 passengers and crew, crashed in the French Alps on March 24. French and German prosecutors believe that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally caused the crash after locking out the plane's captain from the cockpit.
Paris Match, a French magazine; and Bild, a Germany newspaper reported that a video from a cellphone recovered at the plane's wreckage showed the aircraft's interior just seconds before it crashed.
Paris Match reported that one can hear cries of 'My God' in in many languages. It claims that it is followed by "metallic banging" sounds of possibly the pilot attempting to break down the cockpit door; and then louder screams. Silence follows.
The French and German publications described the new video, but did not upload it to their websites. They reported that they viewed the video, and Bild online's editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt described the scene as "disturbing."
According to the daily newspaper, the scene on the plane was "completely shaky" and no individuals can be identified in the clip. However, it also claims that the video's correctness is "beyond question," according to The Independent.
Meanwhile, an official from France's BEA, the country's accident investigation agency, reported that the agency is unaware that such a video exists. Lt. Col. Jean-Marc Menichini, a crash site spokesperson, stated that the reports were "wrong" and "unwarranted," according to CNN.
Menichini admitted that investigators collected cellphones at the site, but they had not yet been "exploited." Also, no cellphones had been sent to the Criminal Research Institute near Paris.
The Lt. Col. was asked if it were possible for a memory card to have been leaked to the media. He replied with an absolute "no."
Meanwhile, Reichelt told news anchor Erin Burnett that Paris Match and Bild are "very confident" that the video clip is genuine. He said that "at the beginning" investigators did not discuss several issues related to the investigation.
