Pilot researched suicide, cockpit doors

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before he flew the plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people.

Duesseldorf prosecutors said investigators found a tablet computer at co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s apartment in Duesseldorf and were able to reconstruct his computer searches from March 16 to March 23.

Based on information from the cockpit voice recorder, investigators believe 27-year-old Lubitz locked his captain out of the A320’s cockpit on March 24 and deliberately crashed the jet, killing everyone on board.