German Police carrying out investigations into the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps have confiscated possessions of the Co-Pilot who was in control of the plane at the time it crashed.
Reports say the pilot apparently crashed his plane in the French Alps killing all 150 people on board. Police are investigating his possible motives.
They said they had found a significant clue, according to media reports.
Data from the plane’s voice recorder suggest Mr Lubitz had deliberately started a descent while the pilot was locked out of the cockpit.
The Barcelona-Duesseldorf flight crashed on Tuesday.
Several airlines have now pledged to change their rules to ensure at least two crew members are present in the cockpit at all times.
The revelations by the German police come after officers searched Mr Lubitz’s flat in Duesseldorf and the house the 27-year-old shared with his parents in Montabaur, north of Frankfurt, late on Thursday.
A number of items were removed – including boxes and a computer – from the two properties.
Lubitz barricaded himself alone in the cockpit of Germanwings flight 9525 and apparently set it on course to crash into an Alpine mountain, killing all 150 people on board including himself, French prosecutors said on Thursday.
They offered no motive for why he would take the controls of the Airbus A320, lock the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately set it veering down from cruising altitude at 3,000 feet per minute.
German police searched his home for evidence that might offer some explanation for what was behind Tuesday’s crash in the French Alps.
