Data from the second black box found in the wreckage of the Germanwings flight that crashed last week in the French Alps confirm the co-pilot acted deliberately, investigators said.
"A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to descend the plane towards an altitude of 100 feet (30 metres)," said the French BEA crash investigation office in a statement.
"Then, several times during the descent, the pilot changed the automatic pilot settings to increase the aircraft's speed," added the investigators.
The latest information appeared to confirm the theory that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed his plane into the mountains, killing all 150 people on board.
Authorities found the second black box, which contains technical flight data, yesterday after a gruelling nine-day search in difficult mountain terrain.
Data from the first black box, which records conversations in the cockpit, suggested that Mr Lubitz, 27, locked his captain out and then deliberately set the plane on a collision course with the mountains.
The plane smashed into the mountains at a speed of 700km/h, instantly killing everyone on board - half of them German and more than 50 from Spain.
It emerged yesterday that Mr Lubitz had searched online for information about suicide and cockpit doors.
German prosecutors have said he was diagnosed as suicidal "several years ago", before he became a pilot.
The black box was taken to France's BEA crash investigation agency yesterday.
Sticking to a purely factual reading of initial data, the BEA did not speculate on which pilot is thought to have entered the commands in the autopilot, which is governed by a single set of knobs sitting on a console between the two pilots.
Nor was it immediately clear whether the pilot was deliberately accelerating the plane towards the mountain or changing speed settings according to the altitude, which affects the way speed is measured in the cockpit.
But the brief actions described by the BEA appeared to confirm a picture painted by prosecutors of methodical and controlled actions as the aircraft sped towards the ground.
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