Live: Mass murder from the cockpit – co-pilot locked himself in flight deck before beginning deliberate fatal descent into the French Alps

Germanwings plane crash live: Andreas Guenter Lubitz intentionally crashed flight 9525 into the Alps in act of mass murder and suicide – latest

More details on crash emerge from voice recorders

Adam Withnall

Thursday 26 March 2015

The investigation into the causes of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps on Tuesday resumed today. Here are the latest news updates:
• Germanwings crash result of 'suicide and mass murder by co-pilot', French prosecutor says
• French prosecutor identifies co-pilot as Andreas Lubitz and says he 'intentionally' crashed the plane
• Voice recordings show passengers started screaming at 'last moment' before plane crashed
• One pilot was 'locked out of the cockpit before Alps crash', claim US reports
• Germanwings claims it is 'too early' to consider changing safety procedures
• Grief over lost German exchange class is echoed by new friends in Spain
• How a cockpit door could be locked from the inside - and why there might be no way to get in
• Simon Calder's analysis: What are the unanswered questions?
• World of football pays tribute to victims

LIVE French prosecutor says the pilot banged on the cockpit door as Andreas Lubitz 'voluntarily refused to open' it and accelerated the descent of the plane 'intentionally'

• Prosecutor: 'We hear cries asking for access. But there's no reply from the pilot'
• Poignant final photograph taken by Iranian journalist on flight
• How a small army of specialists will begin the harrowing process of identifying the bodies
• Investigator: 'You can hear he is trying to smash the door down' 
• copy  http://www.independent.co.uk/news