You didn’t think in this day and age, despite the best efforts of airline stewards and stewardesses to inform us of the evils of mid-flight cellphone usage, someone wasn’t filming the moment the Germanwings plane went down?

Well numerous reports are saying that investigators have found footage taken in the final moments before the plane nosedived into the Alps, killing all 150 people on board. This from NZ Herald:

The video, reportedly found amid the wreckage of last week’s crash, allegedly captures the sound of terrified passengers crying “Oh God” as the plane plunged into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board…

According to two European newspapers who claim to have seen the footage, cries of “oh God” can be heard in several different languages as chaos breaks out inside the cabin.

They also describe the sound of metallic banging from inside the aircraft. Both papers suggest the bangs could be the sound of the frantic captain attempting to break open the cockpit door with an axe, as Andreas Lubitz set the aircraft on to a collision course into the mountain.

The papers making these claims say that the video is clear evidence that the passengers were aware of their fate in the moments before the crash. Neither have released the footage, however, and until such time many will remain sceptical as the truth of these claims.

[source:nzherald]