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One pilot locked out of cockpit before crash -- Report

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One pilot locked out of cockpit before crash -- Report Wednesday March 25 th , 2015  at  8:14 PM 1 Share Rescue workers sift through debris on the mountain slopes March 25, 2015, after the crash of the Germanwings Airbus A320 over the French Alps. (Photo: French Interior Ministry) Evidence collected from the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed German airliner indicates one pilot left the cockpit before the plane began its descent and was unable to get back in,  The New York Times  reported. The report from Paris cited a senior military official involved with the investigation who described audio recovered from the black box recorder. "The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,'' the investigator told the newspaper. "And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. ... You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.'' The report raised grave new questions about the cause of the cras