Germanwings crash: clue from cockpit recorder
Nick Miller 6:10 AM A single audio file found in the battered remains of a cockpit voice recorder may hold the first clues as to why Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed into the French Alps.
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Germanwings crash: clue from cockpit recorder
![German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, French President Francois Hollande, centre, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pay their respects near the mountain where a Germanwings jetliner crashed.](/web/20150325202341im_/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/7/u/2/4/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.1m7u05.png/1427314215127.jpg)
Nick Miller 6:10 AM A single audio file found in the battered remains of a cockpit voice recorder may hold the first clues as to why Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed into the French Alps.
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Germanwings flight 4U9525 disaster: Laborious 'black box' inquiry aims to unlock crash cause
![This photo provided in Paris by the BEA, the French air accident investigation agency, shows the damaged voice data recorder of the Germanwings jetliner that crashed on Tuesday in the French Alps.](/web/20150325202341im_/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/7/t/4/2/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.1m7t5a.png/1427311692704.jpg)
Tim Hepher and Jean-Francois Rosnoblet 5:28 AM Paris: A warren of laboratories on the outskirts of Paris is where French investigators could face months of laborious and complex detective work to try to establish what caused a German airline disaster in the French Alps that killed 150 people.
Germanwings plane crash: What we know so far
![Australians Greig and Carol Friday were among 150 people killed on board the Germanwings flight.](/web/20150325202341im_/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/7/b/v/j/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.1m7cwg.png/1427265212338.jpg)
Lia Timson 12:42 AM An Airbus 320, operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, killing all 150 people on board. This is what we know so far about the accident, the victims and the recovery efforts.
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Gordon Rayner 12:40 AM For eight minutes the Germanwings Airbus A320 went into a steady and rapid descent from 38,000 feet until it hit a mountainside in the Alps halfway through its 90-minute journey from Barcelona to Dusseldorf.
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![Pupils gather at the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school to pay tribute to 16 students and two teachers from the school who were on the flight.](/web/20150325202341im_/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/7/s/2/f/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.1m7s17.png/1427313916232.jpg)
Stefan Nicola and Tino Andresen 11:37 PM Germany was in mourning on Wednesday after losing 67 citizens in the Germanwings crash in the French Alps, the largest loss of life for the country in a single incident in 15 years.
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11:35 PM Helicopters surveying the scattered debris of a German jetliner lifted off at daybreak on Wednesday as investigators sought clues in the wreckage and the black box from the plane that lost radio contact, went into a dive and slammed into the Alpine mountainside. All 150 aboard were believed dead.
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