The second black box from the Germanwings Airbus A320 which crashed in the French Alps last week was found yesterday after a nine-day search and, as it was expected, it confirmed that 27-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz brought down the plane intentionally.

According to the French investigators handling the case, the technical data which had been recorded in the second black box showed that Lubitz changed the settings of the automatic pilot to accelerate the descent of the plane, before crashing it into a mountain in the Alps, killing 150 people.

“A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to descend the plane towards an altitude of 30 metres. Then, many times during the descent, the pilot changed the automatic pilot settings to increase the aircraft’s speed,” said an announcement by the French BEA crash investigators.

Is should be noted that the scenario of the deliberate crash of the plane is further strengthened by the recent discovery that Andreas Lubitz had sought information online about suicide and cockpit doors.