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The definitive analysis in to the crash of Germanwings Journey 9525 and the mind of the copilot who committed the most surprising offense in aviation history. On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Journey 9525 crashed in to the French Alps. All 144 people and six team members were wiped out. Within the ensuing days, a picture of the flight's harrowing final moments commenced to emerge. Soon after reaching sail altitude, a 27-year-old first official named Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit, got control of the aircraft, and deliberately caused its descent. In Fatal Descent, journalist and aviation expert Jeff Smart journeys to Lubitz's hometown in Germany and pieces mutually a definitive and haunting family portrait of the killer and the machine he betrayed, disclosing in heart-pounding details what sort of lifelong superachiever like Lubitz might well have committed this unthinkable take action, what actually happened inside the cockpit, and whether current airline laws leave us vulnerable to similar attacks in the future. Jeff Smart is a science journalist focusing on aviation and psychology. He is the writer of the best-selling Kindle Single The Planes That Wasn't There, about the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Journey 370. A qualified pilot of gliders and light airplanes, he also offers stick time in driven paragliders, trikes, World War II fighter planes, Soviet aircraft fighters, gyroplanes, and zeppelins as well as submarines, tanks, hovercraft, dog sleds, and swamp buggies. A contributing editor at Travel + Leisure mag, he has written for New York, The New York Times, Time, Businessweek, Esquire, Details, and many others. His Popular Mechanics history on the destiny of Air France 447 was named one of the very best 10 Longreads of 2011. His previous e book was Extreme Fear: The Research of YOUR BRAIN in Threat.
