French investigators to release interim report on Germanwings jet crashed by co-pilot

FILE - In this March 26, 2015 file photo, rescue workers work on debris of the Germanwings jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France. The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 4525 tried a controlled descent on the previous flight that morning to Barcelona before the plane crashed into a mountainside in March on its way back to Germany, French air accident investigators said in a new report released Wednesday May, 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009 photo Andreas Lubitz competes at the Airportrun in Hamburg, northern Germany. Lubitz co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appeared to have practiced a controlled descent on his flight into Barcelona just two hours before he intentionally crashed the A320 jet into a mountainside on the return flight to Dusseldorf, air accident investigators said Wednesday May 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Mueller, File) (The Associated Press)

France's air accident investigation agency says it will release an interim report about the crash of Germanwings Flight 4525, amid lingering questions about why the co-pilot appeared to intentionally drive the plane into the French Alps.

The agency, known as BEA, will publish the report Wednesday. It announced the release after German newspaper Bild reported what it said were details from the report.

Prosecutors have said that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the A320 jet into a mountainside on March 24, while en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. Cockpit voice recordings indicate Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit, while data recordings indicate that he repeatedly sped up the plane as brought it down.

All 150 people aboard the plane were killed.

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