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ByJameyKeaten The Associated Press PARIS Information re- trieved from the "black box" data recorder of a doomed German jet shows its co-pi- lot repeatedly accelerated the plane before it slammed into the French Alps, inves- tigators said Friday. France's air accident in- vestigation agency, BEA, provided the disturbing new details a day after a gendarme found the black- ened data recorder buried in debris scattered along a mountainside ravine. Based on an initial read- ing of the recorder, the rev- elation strengthened inves- tigators' early suspicions that co-pilot Andreas Lu- bitz meant to destroy the Germanwings A320. French and German in- vestigators are still trying to figure out why. All 150 peo- ple aboard Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf were killed in the March 24 crash, which has been a re- minder of the trust that pas- sengers place in pilots. The BEA said the prelim- inary reading of the data re- corder shows that the pilot used the automatic pilot to put the plane into a descent and then repeatedly during the descent adjusted the au- tomatic pilot to speed up the plane. Theagencysaysitwillcon- tinue studying the black box for more complete details of what happened. The Flight Data Recorder records air- craft parameters such as the speed,altitude,andactionsof the pilot on the commands. Recording from the plane's other black box — the cockpit voice recorder — previously indicated that Lubitz locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliber- ately crashed the plane, in- vestigators have said. Mountain officers and trained dogs are continu- ing to search the crash site. When the terrain is fully cleared of body parts and belongings, a private com- pany will take out the large airplane debris. Hundreds of victims' rel- atives have traveled to the region, officials say. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, visiting the area Friday in a visibly somber mood, praised resi- dents who opened up their homes to grieving relatives as well as police and others behind the often-jarring re- covery efforts. "No one is ever prepared to face such an event," he said. "And yet immediately, a show of solidarity got or- ganized — one of an entire region, the beautiful sol- idarity of people from the mountains; the one also through the state services." Separately Friday, the Paris prosecutor's office an- nounced it is looking into claimsthatinformationfrom the earliest phase of investi- gation into the crash was wrongly leaked to the media. The prosecutor's probe follows a lawsuit filed last week by SNPL, France's leading pilots union over the leaks. The suit doesn't name an alleged perpetra- tor, a method in French law that leaves investigators to determine who is at fault. The union is claiming a violation of French law about keeping information secret about ongoing inves- tigations. Many pilots fear that details about the crash could damage public trust in an industry whose image has already been jolted by a string of recent incidents, like the mysterious disap- pearance of Malaysia Air- lines Flight 370 a year ago. Lubitz, 27, spent time online researching suicide methods and cockpit door security in the week before crashing Flight 9525, prose- cutors said Thursday — the first evidence that the fa- tal descent may have been a premeditated act. German prosecutors say Lubitz's medical records, from before he received his pilot's license, had referred to "suicidal tendencies." Lufthansa, Germanwings' parent company, said it knew six years ago that he had had an episode of "se- vere depression" before he finished his flight training. FRENCH ALPS CRASH 'Blackbox'showsco-pilotspedupGermanplaneondescent By Robin Mcdowell and Margie Mason The Associated Press BENJINA, INDONESIA Hun- dreds of fishermen raced to be rescued Friday from the isolated Indonesian is- land where an Associated Press investigation found that many were enslaved to catch seafood that could end up in the United States and elsewhere. Indonesian officials prob- ing labor abuses told the migrant workers they were allowing them to leave for another island by boat out of concern for their safety. More than 300 fishermen emerged from nearby trawl- ers, villages and even the jungle to make the trip. "I will go see my par- ents," said Win Win Ko, 42, smiling to reveal a mouth full of missing teeth. "They haven't heard from me, and I haven't heard from them since I left." He left impoverished Myanmar four years ago on the promise of getting a good job in neighboring Thailand, but like many others stranded in the is- land village of Benjina, he was instead duped into get- ting on a fishing boat that took him thousands of miles from home with no return. He said his four teeth were kicked out by a Thai boat captain's military boots be- cause he was not moving fish fast enough from the deck to the hold below. The current and for- mer slaves began getting news about the rescue as a downpour started, and some ran through the rain. They sprinted back to their boats, jumping over the rails and throwing them- selves through windows. They stuffed their mea- ger belongings into plastic bags and rushed back to the dock, not wanting to be left behind. A small boat went from trawler to trawler picking up men who wanted to go and was soon loaded down with about 30 men. The Indonesian delega- tion began interviewing men on boats and assess- ing the situation on the is- land this week. They have heard of the same abuses fishermen told the AP in a story published last week, which documented a com- pany graveyard in Benjina and eight fishermen locked in a company cage. The fishermen described being beaten, kicked and whipped with stingray tails and given Taser-like electric shocks. Some said they fell ill and were not given medicine; others said had been promised jobs in Thailand but were instead issued fake seafarer docu- ments and taken to Indone- sia, where they were made to work 20- to 22-hour days with no time off for little or zero pay. Their catch is then shipped back to Thai- land, where it enters global markets, the AP story doc- umented. Hundreds of fishermen rescued amid slavery probe INDONESIA By Christopher Torchia and Tom Odula The Associated Press GARISSA, KENYA The 20-year-old student called home from the university being besieged by Islamic militants and frantically told her father, "There are gunshots everywhere! Tell Mum to pray for me — I don't know if I will survive." The call by Elizabeth Na- marome Musinai at dawn Thursday was one of sev- eral her family received as the attack and hostage drama unfolded at Garissa University College, where gunmen from the al-Sha- bab militant group killed 148 people. Then, about 1 p.m., a man got on the line to demand that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta be con- tacted within two minutes and told to remove troops from neighboring Somalia, where they are fighting al- Shabab extremists. He phoned back promptly. When told the president had not been con- tacted, he said, "I am go- ing to kill your daughter." Three gunshots followed, and he hung up. When Eliz- abeth's father, Fred Kaskon Musinai, called the man back, he said he was told: "She is now with her God." Musinai said he is still hanging on to hope that Elizabeth somehow sur- vived, although she is not on the list of wounded, which now numbers 104. He has traveled from his home in Kitale to Nairobi, where the dead are being brought to a morgue for families to iden- tify and claim. Survivors and relatives gave other harrowing ac- counts of the siege by Is- lamic extremists as Kenya on Friday mourned the vic- tims of the attack, the dead- liest since the 1998 bomb- ing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi that killed more than 200 people. At the Nairobi morgue, screaming and crying fam- ily members were assisted by Red Cross staffers, who tried to console them. Archbishop John Njue, who conducted Good Fri- day services, cited the "murdered" students and said, "This is a tremendous challenge in our country." Pope Francis condemned the attack as an act of "senseless brutality" and called for those responsi- ble to change their violent ways. In a telegram of con- dolence, Francis also urged Kenyan authorities to work to bring an end to such at- tacks and "hasten the dawn of a new era of brotherhood, justice and peace." The gunmen singled out Christians at the university, killing them on the spot. But Muslims also were among the dead, as were women, even though the attackers had said at one point that they, too, would be spared. The masked attackers — strapped with explosives and armed with AK-47s — battled troops and police before the violence ended after about 13 hours. In announcing an up- dated figure of 148 peo- ple killed by the gunmen, Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said 142 of the dead were students, three were policemen and three were soldiers. Police worked at the Ga- rissa campus Friday, taking fingerprints from the bod- ies of the four slain gunmen and of the students and se- curity officials who died, for identification purposes. Security forces guarded the gates of the school. Its slogans on the wall outside said "Oasis of Innovation" and "A World Class Univer- sity of Technological Pro- cesses and Development." TERRORIST ATTACK Kenya mourns a er deadly university attack THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Kenya Red Cross staff assist a woman a er she viewed the body of a relative killed in Thursday's attack on a university, at Chiromo funeral home, Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday. Landscape/Fence Steve's Tractor &LandscapeService •FenceBuilding•Landscaping • Trenching • Rototilling • Disking • Mowing • Ridging • Post Hole Digging • Blade Work • Sprinkler Installation • Concrete Work Cont. 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