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EU Aviation Safety Agency Task Force To Study Germanwings Plane Crash Report 

Following the publication of an interim report by French air accident investigators on the Germanwings plane crash, Commissioner Violeta Bulc asked the European Aviation Safety Agency to set up a task force to look into the findings set out in the report.

The areas of review include the cockpit door locking system and cockpit access and exit procedures, as well as the criteria and procedures applied to the medical monitoring of pilots.

The first meeting will already take place Thursday, the European Commission said in a press release. The task force will gather senior safety and medical staff from the industry and from the regulators. It will use the results from the preliminary investigation report, and gather evidence, including from hearing experts. It will also look at further results coming out of the on-going safety investigation. The work of the task force will run in parallel to the independent safety investigation led by the French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority.

The French air accident investigation agency, the BEA, released its report on Wednesday, based on analysis of the aircraft's black box.

The co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane appears to have rehearsed a rapid descent on a previous flight before the March 24 incident, according to the report.

The co-pilot, First Officer Andreas Lubitz, intentionally forced the Duesseldorf-bound Airbus into a rapid descent, which eventually led to a crash in the French Alps, killing all 150 people aboard.

Initial inquiry had pointed to the possibility that the German co-pilot manipulated the flight monitoring system to accelerate the descent of the flight.