was premeditated. french investigators say 27-year-old andreas lubitz practiced his deadly descent of a jetliner the same day he steered germanwings flight 9525 into the french alps. just before that deadly crash, lubitz and the same captain piloted the plane on a different flight from dusseldorf to barcelona. with the captain out of the cockpit, the flight data recorder shows lubitz set the plane s autopilot to 100 feet before going up again. he explored the plane s ability to make sure nobody would see him. reporter: according to the new report the selected altitude decreased to 100 feet for three seconds, then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet until it
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9525Five100autopilot to 100 feet before leveling off again. he certainly was exploring the aircraft and its ability to go up or down and not stop him from descending it into the ground making sure nobody would see him. reporter: according to the new report the selected altitude decreased to 100 feet for three seconds. then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet until it stabilized at 25,000 feet. the flight never left its scheduled path so air traffic control didn t notice the altitude changes. unless the plane is equipped to stream the data and they decide to stream the data of the aircraft performance from the flight and someone s monitoring it they wouldn t have noticed. it was clear the pilot didn t notice. reporter: it appears to have a dry run for what he would do later on that morning on board the very same plane during the flight 9525.
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for three seconds. then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet. less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet. until it stabilized at 25,000 feet. the flight never left its scheduled path so air traffic control didn t notice the altitude changes. unless the plane is equipped to stream the data and they decide to stream the data of the aircraft performance from the flight and someone s monitoring it they wouldn t have noticed. it was clear the pilot didn t notice for another reason. the front lab was inoperative and he apparently went clear to the back. he was gone for four minutes. reporter: it appears it was a dry run for what he would do later on same morning on board the same plane during flight 9525. lieu bits waited until the captain left the cockpit, locked the door, and set the plane s altitude to 100 feet. he directed the jetliner into the mountains, killing all 150
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