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Robin said he was sure Lubitz was conscious, since the audio on the cockpit voice recorder has him breathing normally throughout the 10-minute descent into the mountains, until the moment of impact. But pilots are not convinced that the breathing sounds meant he was able to open the door to Sonderheimer. “Was he conscious? Could he open the door?” Phillips asked. “The prosecutor did not provide answers to that.”
Not sure what to make of that statement. If the guy was conscious and hurtling towards the ground at 500mph, knowing he was about to die and murder 160 innocent people in the process, I'd imagine his breathing wouldn't be "normal." He'd probably be hyperventilating like a motherfucker.
On the other hand, if he was unconscious and blissfully unaware of the impending fireball, then he may well have been breathing normally. But this is all speculation, we have no idea what kind of breathing patterns they heard in the black box, or even if the French civil servant used the correct semantics when he labeled the breathing as "normal."