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Germanwings video ‘found’

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A video of the final moments on board Germanwings flight 9525 has been discovered, several European news outlets are reporting.

In video reportedly seen by reporters for Paris Match and German daily Bild the screams of passengers are interrupted by a thumping noise assumed to be the pilot trying to break back into the cockpit.

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Audio from the plane’s black box cockpit voice recorder last week revealed co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane after locking the captain out of the cockpit.

The “totally blurred and chaotic” footage reportedly shows the plane clipping a mountain moments before its final impact.

Passengers are heard to scream “My God” in various languages.

Searchers found a memory card from a mobile phone among the wreckage, and the video was stored on the card, Paris Match reports.

Search leader Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Marc Menichini said his investigators had not found any phone footage.

“Even though the scene on board is chaotic and completely shaky, and no individual person can be identified, the accuracy of the video is beyond question,” Bild’s report stated.

Paris Match alleged the footage was recovered from the debris of the wreckage by a “source close to the investigation”.

The footage was reportedly shot from the rear of the doomed Airbus A320.

All 150 people on board the flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, including two Australians, were killed in the disaster.

Reports of the recording came as Germanwings parent airline Lufthansa said it knew six years ago that Lubitz had suffered from a “serious depressive episode”.

Lufthansa said it was aware of reports about the footage but questioned whether a mobile phone could have withstood the impact.

“We have also read of reports in a French newspaper about the video,” a spokesman for the company said.

“But we have not seen the video and we do not know if it exists. Therefore we cannot confirm if the video is genuine.

“Considering that everything on the plane was destroyed, it would be unusual for a mobile phone to survive the impact.”

— with AAP

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