Andreas Lubitz rehearsed his plan to crash a Germanwings flight into the French Alps, killing 150 people, French investigators have revealed.
And the 27-year-old pilot ignored repeated attempts to contact him from both ground and air staff at the time, the investigators said.
The findings, revealed in a preliminary report into the crash, showed Lubitz had set the altitude dial on the Airbus A320's autopilot to 100ft on five occasions in less than five minutes while flying alone on the outbound Dusseldorf to Barcelona flight on the same day as the crash.
The report said: "On the previous flight, the following facts can be noted: ˆ
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