A video of the last moments on the doomed Germanwings plane has been found on a mobile phone memory card at the crash site in the French Alps, according to reports.
The "totally blurred and chaotic" footage was reportedly made from the back of the Airbus A320 and features the sound of three metallic bangs - presumed to be the captain trying to break into the locked cockpit.
Reports of the recording came as Germanwings parent airline Lufthansa said it knew six years ago that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who intentionally crashed the plane last week, had suffered from a "serious depressive episode".
All 150 people on board the flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, including two Australians, were killed in the disaster.
Germany's Bild newspaper and French magazine Paris Match both reported they had viewed the video of the last seconds of Flight 4U9525.
They said no individuals could be made out and it was unclear whether it had been filmed by a crew member or a passenger.
Screams of "My God" can be heard in several languages before the cabin is jolted to the side, apparently when the plane clipped a mountainside, according to the reports.
More desperate cries can be heard before the video ends, Bild said.
Paris Match that the footage was recovered from the debris of the wreckage by a "source close to the investigation".
Lufthansa said it was aware of reports about the footage but questioned whether a mobile phone could have withstood the impact.
"We have also read of reports in a French newspaper about the video," a spokesman for the company said.
"But we have not seen the video and we do not know if it exists. Therefore we cannot confirm if the video is genuine.
"Considering that everything on the plane was destroyed, it would be unusual for a mobile phone to survive the impact."
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