Crash scene experts say Germanwings cell video is fake, despite renewed assurances by the European media outlets claiming they have the questionable footage that it’s the “real” thing.
The controversy continues to swirl amid the latest dramatic declarations -- this time by French officials -- that they’ve finally located the downed aircraft’s second black box, and that it’s more or less “intact.”
If so, it took nearly 10 days after kamikaze co-pilot Andreas Lubitz dive-bombed the passenger plane into the Alps, killing all 150 people onboard, to find the vital flight-data recorder.
Investigators searched tirelessly for it in a mountain of debris and human remains which they warn will take months to retrieve and fully analyze.
The second black box itself contains additional information not captured on the first one, the voice recorder, which was discovered in the wreckage within only hours of the Lufthansa airplane’s allegedly intentional downing.
Now, data about the flight path, pilot actions, and instrumentation, will hopefully help furnish the missing pieces of a massive jigsaw puzzle that still has the airline industry and observers scratching their heads in disbelief.
The shaky cell phone film, purportedly showing the doomed passengers’ final seconds of terror as they watched the rocky mountainside looming closer and closer to them, could be of use too. Provided, of course, that it isn’t a macabre hoax intended to just sell more newspapers.
So far, though, that’s precisely what skeptical investigators are convinced to be the case.
“It is a fake,” an official spokesperson insists. “There is no such video,” he emphatically states.
