Live press conference by French Official now...
Cockpit voice recorder info .... Captain left cockpit. Co Pilot initiated descent by keying attitude selector. Captain called at door, knocked, no response from Co-Pilot. Then noise of human breathing heard... All the way to impact. ATC calls heard several times, no response
Ground proximity alarms heard. Sounds of violent attempts to force door. Just before final impact... Screams and possibly very first noise of impact is heard. Then silence.
Dialogue in cockpit beforehand was entirely normal.
Official is adamant that the descent was a deliberate action by co-pilot.
Questioned about ethnicity of co-pilot. Ans - German, no suspicion of terrorism.
Edit: I'm curious to know how they can be sure he had keyed the altitude command, when they only have CVR ?