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French magazine ‘convinced’ video of end to Flight 9525 is real

Paris Match editor Le Sommier

Régis Le Sommier is the deputy editor of the French news mag ‘Paris Match’ and he spoke to NBC’s the Today Show Wednesday about the video, which the police in France have said is likely a hoax.

Not so, Le Sommier said.

“I’m convinced this is real,” he told the Today show. “We are pretty positive about our source, which is close to the investigation team, so there is no doubt that what we saw are the final seconds of what happened.”

Germanwings Flight 9525 was en route from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Dusseldorf Airport in Germany on March 24 when it slammed into the French Alps, killing all 150 onboard. It is believed the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, locked the pilot out of the cockpit then intentionally downed the plane in a horrific case of suicide/murder.

Final seconds of Flight 9525

While experts said a cellphone would not likely survive a high-impact crash — the plane hit the mountain at 800km an hour — many maintain the memory-card could. Le Sommier said the video, also shown to the German magazine ‘Bild,’ was shot from the back of the plane and that the individual faces in it are “blurred.”

In the video, he said, many voices, in different languages, could be heard saying “Oh My God.”

“The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people. But the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them,” the magazine wrote. “Toward the end, after a heavy shake, stronger than the others, the screaming intensifies. Then nothing.”

The magazine said that “metallic banging can also be heard more than three times, perhaps of the pilot trying to open the cockpit door with a heavy object.”

That detail, and others, match information released by investigators, information gleaned from the black box which has been recovered and examined. The plane’s second black box was found Thursday, April 2 and as of this writing there’s been no report of its content.

Paris Match did not identify who their source is.

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