“Open the damn door!”

These are reportedly the desperate last words of the Germanwings captain as he tried to get back into the locked cockpit of the passenger plane crashed by his co-pilot in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board.

In transcripts from Black Box recordings – reported in the German press as more details emerge about troubled Andreas Lubitz – passengers are also heard screaming as the terrifying scene unfolds.

Mass circulation Bild am Sonntag reported that the voice recorder data from the doomed Airbus A320, en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, showed the locked-out captain said to his colleague inside the cockpit: “For God’s sake, open the door”.

The pilot can then be heard trying to smash the door down with a metal object. Even when he yells: “Open the damn door!” Lubitz does not give an answer as passengers’ screams can be heard in the background just seconds before the fatal crash, the paper said.

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