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Germanwings co-pilot likely crashed jet deliberately - prosecutor

Germanwings co-pilot likely crashed jet deliberately - prosecutor

PARIS (Reuters) - The co-pilot of a Germanwings jet that went down in the French Alps, killing 150 people, appears to have crashed the plane deliberately, a Marseille prosecutor said on Thursday. The German citizen, left in sole control of the Airbus A320 after the captain left the cockpit, refused to re-open the door and pressed a button that sent the jet into its fatal descent, the prosecutor told a news conference carried on live television. (Reporting by Tim Hepher; Editing by James Regan)