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Germanwings co-pilot 'rehearsed descent on previous flight'

The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane into the French Alps after "rehearsing" the descent on an earlier flight, French investigators said on Wednesday.

The BEA civil aviation investigators said the co-pilot, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz, had practiced the manouevre on the outbound trip from Düsseldorf to Barcelona just hours before his suicidal actions on the return flight.

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