Does video really show final seconds of Flight 9525?

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[h=4]Does video really show final seconds of Flight 9525?[/h]A French news magazine Wednesday defended the authenticity of a cellphone video they say was shot inside Germanwings Flight 9525 before is slammed into an Alpine ravine in France.

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The CEOs of Germanwings and Lufthansa visited a memorial near the site of the crash in the French Alps on the week anniversary. Meanwhile, two publications described cellphone video they say was taken inside the plane before the crash. VPC


French gendarmes speak with German police on April 1 near a monument commemorating the victims of the March 24 Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the village of Le Vernet.(Photo: Pascal Guyot, AFP/Getty Images)


A French news magazine Wednesday defended the authenticity of a cellphone video they say was shot inside Germanwings Flight 9525 in the final seconds before it slammed into an Alpine ravine in France.
Régis Le Sommier, the deputy editor of French publication Paris Match, spoke after French police said the video probably was a hoax.
"I'm convinced this is real," Le Sommier said on NBC's Today show. "We are pretty positive about our source, which is close to the investigation team, so there is no doubt that what we saw are the final seconds of what happened."
Lt. Col. Jean-Marc Menichini, a French Gendarmerie spokesman, told CNN that reports the video came from the site were "completely wrong" and "unwarranted."
"Did he see it?" reporter Frédéric Helbert said in Wednesday's Paris Match. "What video is he talking about? Is he talking about the same video? Those are questions I would like to ask him. He says the video is a fake, but did he see it?"
French prosecutor Brice Robin said cellphones retrieved from the site have not been flown out for analysis yet. "If people at the site have picked up mobile phones, I am not aware of it," he told Reuters.
Helbert said he can't give the video to investigators because he does not even have a copy of it. He said he was able to view it by conducting a "long investigative process" involving intermediaries connected to people working at the crash site.
The Duesseldorf-bound Airbus A320 crashed less than an hour after departing Barcelona. French and German investigators, citing the plane's voice recorder, say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was alone in the cockpit when locked the door and sent the jet into a 10-minute descent ending in catastrophe near the village of Seyne-les-Alpes.
Paris Match said the sounds in the cellphone video appeared to match the background sounds captured by the cockpit voice recorder. The news weekly said cries of "My God" could be heard in several languages.
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"The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people," Paris Match reported. "But the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them."
The publication described metallic banging that it suspected was the sound of the pilot trying to open the cockpit door with a heavy object.
"Toward the end, after a heavy shake, stronger than the others, the screaming intensifies. Then nothing."
Bild said the scene on board was chaotic, "totally blurred and no individuals can be identified." The newspaper said the video was recorded in the rear of the plane, but it could not determine whether the cellphone owner was sitting or standing.
"Just before the end of the video, the aircraft seems to be touching a mountain," Bild said. "It looks like the cabin gets blown to the side. Once again you can hear people cry — then the video ends."
Bild quoted a phone "tester," Dirk Lorenz, as saying the phone probably could not survive such a crash but the memory card could.
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