Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: Die Welt- Awfully Fast Conclusions About Germanwings Crash....

The course goes against all the rules of a neutral investigation of a plane crash.No 48 hours after accident flight 4U9525 rebounded from German Wings against a mountain in southern France, the exact procedure seems certain.

The 27-year-old co-driver Andreas L. should have barricaded themselves in the cockpit of the Airbus A320, as the pilot temporarily left the cockpit and then drove a suicide and mass murderer 149 people to their deaths. As far as the scenario as described by the French prosecutor Brice Robin.

Be published in other crashes or incidents elapse months until the first test results and some years until the final report. A current example is an accident just after Christmas, also with an Airbus A320.

On December 27, the plane crashed on the way from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people in a storm off area. In mid-January the data recorder were hundreds values recorded and the voice recorder found.

Information prohibition for authority

So there is much more material for evaluation as now the German Wings disaster. Nevertheless, except for a few key data on the amount and speed of the aircraft in the crash still no indication of the cause of the crash has been published. Not a word, not a sentence.

Therefore, industry experts wonder about the enigmatic fast and obviously clear definition for the drain during the German Wings crash that is based solely on the analysis of the voice recorder, radar data and radio communications. "Why did not you wait until hopefully the data recorder is still found? This is a hasty process," says an expert, who asked to remain anonymous.

The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation in Braunschweig has now received an information prohibition in the case 4U9525. All requests for information are now answered only by the French investigation agency BEA (Bureau d'Enquête et d'Analyses). This concentration is permitted by law. It will probably be prevented further details unplanned penetrate to the outside.

Trigger for the inroads of the French prosecutor Brice Robin was a report of the"New York Times" . The newspaper had reported, citing an unnamed French military source that found itself at the time of the crash, only one pilot in the cockpit of the A320 injured by German Wings.

The version of the Prosecutor

Obviously, the prosecutor felt under pressure to respond quickly and provided further details and setting down one direction . This inroads was unusual. The prosecutor referred to a transcript of the last 31 minutes of flight. In the first 20 minutes, the two pilots were completely normal talk to each other.

"Then you hear, like the captain will prepare the briefing for the landing in Dusseldorf. The copilot responds laconically." Then asks the captain Andreas L., to take command. You hear a door zugehe. Probably the captain wanted to go to the bathroom, so the prosecutor.

"When the first officer was alone in the cockpit, he pressed the button to initiate a descent," said Robin. "That can only be done intentionally." Later, you listen to the recording, as the captain repeatedly call the copilot to be readmitted into the cockpit.

But Andreas L. did not respond. He gave no word from him. "But you listen to breathe someone in the cockpit. He was so alive," said the prosecutor. Breathing was also claimed that normal listened to and not as've Andreas L. suffered a heart attack or weakness.

Criticism of disclosure of information

From the various components, such as missed radio calls to "clear at the present time for us investigators that the most likely interpretation is that the copilot has deliberately refused to open the master of the door, and that he was aware of the button to initiate the descent has pressed. We do not know why. "

The prosecutor regretted that he had received the information about the content of the audio recordings from the cockpit late. "Too late for my taste." It is to criticize his own way that this information is already in on Wednesday night were leaked to the press.

This Rémi Jouty, the head of the responsible for the investigation of the cause of the accident BEA authority had declared the day before, it is likely weeks, if not take months to clarity exists about what really led to the crash of the German Wings machine.

Former BEA chief Jean-Paul Troadec, who stood at the head of the authority by the end of 2013, knocked on Thursday on a careful reconnaissance. "One must be very careful," he said. What you hear must be "interpreted and analyzed in conjunction with the other information from the flight data recorder".

Indignation even with pilots

He did not know who would have access to the leaked information can have, but they were to be treated with caution. The BEA has not yet sure how they should be interpreted. For the second black box flight recorder, was Friday morning, still not found.

Even pilots are outraged that there was a leak in the investigation. The leakage of voice recorder data from the cockpit is a serious violation of basic, internationally recognized rules for the investigation of aviation accidents, criticized the European Cockpit Association (ECA European Cockpit Association).

You understand that much speak for the now represented theory, the copilot had wanted to destroy the plane. "But there is at present still many unanswered questions," gives the pilots union said in a statement to consider.

A time-consuming, thorough and independent investigation is necessary to prevent future disasters. Indirectly criticized the European Cockpit Association also that the prosecution has taken the lead role in the investigation instead of the independent investigator.

Pilots' union wants to sue

Similarly, also expressed the Vereinigung Cockpit from Germany . Although the preliminary analysis of the cockpit voice recorder give a first insight into the events on board the German Wings flight.

Why the descent was initiated, but also remains unanswered as the question of why the copilot was later to become unresponsive. "Just give the explanations of the authorities no final explanation of why the captain could not gain more access to the cockpit later."

Therefore, quickly had also the flight data recorder are found and analyzed. "We should not jump to conclusions based on incomplete information. Only after evaluation of all the sources we know what were the main reasons for this tragic accident," said Ilya Schulz, President of the cockpit.

The largest French pilots' union SNPL Alpa announced now, they will file a complaint against unknown for breach of professional secrecy. The leakage of information is unacceptable, says union member Patrick Magisson.

The A320 pilot works himself as an expert with crash investigations. Especially for the families of the victims that meant that they would now have to go through hell.