Photos: Details emerge about co-pilot Andreas Lubitz

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French prosecutors have identified Andreas Lubitz as the co-pilot responsible for this week's deadly Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. Lubitz barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. Click through this gallery of photos to learn new details emerging about Lubitz and the plane crash.

French prosecutors have identified 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz as the co-pilot responsible for this week's deadly Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. Lubitz barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. Click through this gallery of photos to learn new details emerging about Lubitz and the plane crash.

The house believed to belong to crashed Germanwings flight 4U 9524 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is pictured in Montabaur, March 26, 2015. The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings jet into the French Alps on Tuesday has been identified as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz. Announcing his details at a news conference on Thursday, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said he had no known links with terrorism."There is no reason to suspect a terrorist attack," he said. Asked whether he believed the crash that killed 150 people was the result of suicide, he said: "People who commit suicide usually do so alone....I don't call it a suicide." 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. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

Andreas Lubitz runs the Airportrace half marathon in Hamburg in this September 13, 2009 file photo. The co-pilot who appears to have deliberately crashed Germanwings plane carrying 149 passengers into the French Alps received psychiatric treatment for a "serious depressive episode" six years ago, German tabloid Bild reported on March 27, 2015. Prosecutors in France, after listening to the cockpit voice recorders, offered no motive for why Andreas Lubitz, 27, would take the controls of the Airbus A320, lock the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately set it veering down from cruising altitude at 3,000 feet per minute. REUTERS/Foto-Team-Mueller

Police hold media away from the house where Andreas Lubitz lived in Montabaur, Germany, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Lubitz was the copilot on flight Germanwings 9525 that crashed with 150 people on board on Tuesday in the French Alps. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

German police officers and officials prepare to open a house believed to belong to crashed Germanwings flight 4U 9524 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz in Montabaur, March 26, 2015. The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings jet into the French Alps on Tuesday has been identified as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz. Announcing his details at a news conference on Thursday, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said he had no known links with terrorism."There is no reason to suspect a terrorist attack," he said. Asked whether he believed the crash that killed 150 people was the result of suicide, he said: "People who commit suicide usually do so alone....I don't call it a suicide." 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. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

A police officer leaves a house in Montabaur, Germany, Thursday, March 26, 2015 where the family of Andreas Lubitz lives. Lubitz was the copilot on flight Germanwings 9525 that crashed with 150 people on board on Tuesday in the French Alps. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Investigators carry boxes from the apartment of Germanwings airliner jet co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday March 26, 2015. On Thursday, French prosecutors said Lubitz, the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, "intentionally" crashed the jet into the side of a mountain Tuesday in the French Alps. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

A person covered with a black blanket is led by police officers from the hours of the family of Andreas Lubitz to a police van in Montabaur, Germany, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Lubitz was the copilot on flight Germanwings 9525 that crashed with 150 people on board on Tuesday in the French Alps. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Investigators carry boxes out of the house where the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings airliner jet lived in an apartment in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday, March 26, 2015. The co-pilot of the Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and intentionally rammed the plane full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

A police officer stands in front of an apartment building where they believe Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings airliner jet, lived in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday, March 26, 2015, during an investigation into the crash in the French Alps on Tuesday that killed 150 people. Lubitz barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Police officers block a street where the pilot of the crashed Germanwings airliner jet is supposed to have lived in an apartment, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday March 26, 2015 during investigations of the crash of the aircraft in the French Alps on Tuesday killing 150 people. The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Police officers stand in front of a house where the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings airliner jet is supposed to have lived in an apartment, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday March 26, 2015 during investigations of the crash of an aircraft in the French Alps on Tuesday killing 150 people. The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Investigators enter the way to a house where the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings airliner jet is supposed to have lived in an apartment, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday March 26, 2015 . The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps Tuesday, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

A German flag flies on half-staff in front of a house where the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings airliner jet is supposed to have lived in an apartment, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday March 26, 2015 . The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Klaus Radke, chairman of the aviation club Westerwald, talks to journalists in Montabaur, Germany, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Club member Andreas Lubitz was the copilot on flight Germanwings 9525 that crashed with 150 people on board on Tuesday in the French Alps. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Several flags, including the German flag, fly at half staff at The Airline Training Center Arizona Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the Goodyear Airport in Goodyear, Ariz. German Pilot Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot on Germanwings 9525 that crashed with 150 people on board on Tuesday in the French Alps, trained at the Airline Training Center in 2008 according to Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Personnel walk near the The Airline Training Center Arizona Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the Goodyear Airport in Goodyear, Ariz. German Pilot Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot on Germanwings 9525 that crashed with 150 people on board on Tuesday in the French Alps, trained at the Airline Training Center in 2008 according to Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

A screenshot shows a Facebook page of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, March 26, 2015. The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings jet into the French Alps on Tuesday has been identified as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz. Announcing his details at a news conference on Thursday, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said he had no known links with terrorism."There is no reason to suspect a terrorist attack," he said. Asked whether he believed the crash that killed 150 people was the result of suicide, he said: "People who commit suicide usually do so alone....I don't call it a suicide."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. REUTERS/HO

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French prosecutors have identified 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz as the co-pilot responsible for this week's deadly Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. Lubitz barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. Click through this gallery of photos to learn new details emerging about Lubitz and the plane crash.

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