Video ‘shows cabin chaos’ in seconds before Alps crash – Telegraph.co.uk

The video allegedly shows passengers on board the flight clearly aware of what is happening to them. They can be heard screaming, and there are cries of “My God” in several different languages.

There are also three loud metallic bangs, which could be the sound of Captain Patrick Sondheimer trying to break down the locked cockpit door.

The video shows what appears to be part of the aircraft hitting the mountains, according to Bild.

Investigators evaluating voice recorder data say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz allegedly locked his captain out of the cockpit and crashed the plane.

However, Jean-Marc Menichini, the French police official lieutenant-colonel, denied that investigators had found mobile phone footage at the crash site, telling CNN that the reports were “completely wrong” and “unwarranted”.

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Lufthansa said it was aware of reports about the footage, but questioned whether a mobile phone could have withstood the impact.

A spokesman for the company said: “We have also read of reports in a French newspaper about the video. But we have not seen the video and we do not know if it exists. Therefore we cannot confirm if the video is genuine.

“Considering that everything on the plane was destroyed, it would be unusual for a mobile phone to survive the impact.”