PARIS, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The captain of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps was in the cockpit at the time while the first officer was locked out, the Le Monde newspaper reported on Thursday.
The New York Times and AFP also said early Thursday that evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane's descent and was unable to get back in.
None of the reports have been confirmed by the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA).
Remi Jouty, general director of the BEA, told a press conference Wednesday afternoon that an audio file was extracted from the damaged black box found Tuesday afternoon at the crash site.
The Airbus A320 aircraft, operated by Lufthansa's budget airline Germanwings, crashed Tuesday in southern France while flying from Spain's Barcelona to Germany's Duesseldorf. There were no survivors among the 144 passengers and six crew members on board.
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