Second Germanwings flight recorder found

The Marseille prosecutor has said that the second flight recorder for the Germanwings A320 Airbus that crashed in the French Alps last week, has been found.

The first voice recorder found on the site of the crash on 24th march had revealed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had deliberately crashed the plane.

The flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, left no survivors of the 150 people onboard.

German prosecutors have revealed that Lubitz had researched suicide methods and cockpit door security online and investigators found a tablet computer at his apartment and reconstructed his online search history in the week leading up to the disaster.

He had been deemed fit to fly by his employers at Germanwings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa.

Details from the flight data recorder (FDR) are seen as vital to the investigation into the crash. Reports say that if it is not too badly damaged, investigators hope to yield technical information on the time of radio transmissions, the plane's acceleration, airspeed, altitude and direction.

Lubitz began the jet's descent at 10:31 on 24 March, shortly after the A320 had made its final contact with air traffic control, and crashed the plane less than eight minutes later into a mountain near Seyne-les-Alpes.