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Desperate Germanwings captain 'used crowbar and oxygen tank to try to open door' before crash

The desperate captain of the Germanwings plane yelled 'open this f***ing door' and tried to use a crowbar hidden in the back of the plane to force his way into the cockpit during its terrifying descent, new reports suggest.

But as heroic pilot Patrick Sondenheimer tried to break in, his co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had put on an oxygen mask and was calmly directing the Airbus A320 into the French Alps.

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