No grounds to consider crash a terrorist incident, according to French prosecutor, but there is no alternative motive yet as hunt for second black box continues PARIS/SEYNE-LES-ALPES — A young German co-pilot locked himself alone in the cockpit of a Germanwings airliner and flew it into a mountain with what appears to have been the intent to destroy it, a French prosecutor said on Thursday.Investigators and grieving relatives were left struggling to explain what motivated Andreas Lubitz, 28, to kill all 150 people on board the Airbus A320, including himself and the captain, in Tuesday’s crash in the French Alps.French and German officials said there was no indication the crash was a terrorist attack, but gave no alternative explanation for his motives.Lubitz gained sole control of the aircraft after the captain left the cockpit. He refused to re-open the door and sent the aircraft into its fatal descent, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said.He did this "for a reason we cannot fat...
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