The copilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, accused of intentionally crashing the passenger jet in the French Alps and killing all 150 people aboard, searched online for information about suicide methods and cockpit door security systems, German prosecutors said Thursday.
The revelation came as French officials announced that searchers had found the plane's flight data recorder at the site of the March 24 crash.
Investigators reviewing evidence taken from copilot Andreas Lubitz's apartment in the German city of Duesseldorf traced his search engine history on his personal tablet from March 16 to March 23.
The copilot "concerned himself on one hand with medical treatment methods, on the other hand with types and ways of going about a suicide," German prosecutor Ralf Herrenbrueck said in a statement.
"On at least one day the person in question also spent several minutes with search terms about cockpit doors and their security arrangements," the statement added.
German newspaper Bild reported that Lubitz told his doctors that he was on sick leave and concealed the fact that he was still flying. According to Bild, Lubitz was seeking treatment for trauma and vision problems following a car accident at the end of 2014.
Meanwhile, French prosecutor Brice Robin announced in a statement that the second black box -- the digital flight data recorder -- had been found by investigators at the crash site.
The flight data recorder contains readings for nearly every instrument and could greatly aid investigators in determining what occurred in the final moments of the flight.
Audio recordings obtained from the previously discovered cockpit voice recorder prompted French prosecutors to surmise that Lubitz locked the airliner's pilot out of the cockpit before intentionally crashing the plane into a mountainside in the southern Alps.
Documents from Germany's air transport regulator later revealed that Lubitz had sought psychiatric help for a bout of serious depression in 2009 and was still getting assistance from doctors.
Hassan is a special correspondent.
Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times9:15 a.m.: This article has been updated with additional details.
The article was originally published at 7:55 a.m.
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