New details emerge from 'disturbing' video of final moments on doomed Germanwings plane

Shocking footage which shows people screaming and crying "oh my God" was discovered on a mobile phone sim card found among the plane's debris.

The clip was obtained by French magazine Paris Match and German newspaper Bild but has yet to be made public.

New details have today emerged of the footage recorded in the dying moments before the plane hit the ground.

Julian Reicheltl, editor-in-chief of Bild, described how passengers could be heard screaming in the video, as the stricken plane crashed into the mountain. 

He said the blurry footage captured a “very disturbing scene” in the seconds leading up to impact.

It included several passengers shouting "My God" in different languages.

Speaking to CNN, Mr Reichert said: "We are in, what we believe to be the very final moments of the plane, is that plane heading downwards people are being in panic, people are screaming and, you know, in the background we hear that metallic bang that was talked about before.

"And what happens then is that, you know, something seems to hit the plane or the plane seems to hit something and it is jumping for quite a quick moment we hear more screaming and then that is the end of the sequence we were able to see."

On the video, which Bild described as being "indisputably authentic", a banging of metal could be heard at least three times.

It is possible the sound of the pilot, who had been locked out of the cockpit by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who was trying to break through the door.

Near the end there was a heavy shake and the cabin tilted sharply to one side. After further screams the video ended, said the paper.

The footage was found on a mobile phone sim card belonging to one of the passengers killed on the plane.

However reports said no individuals could be identified in the short clip.

Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashed into the French Alps during a flight between Barcelona and Dusseldorf.

All 150 people onboard, which included three Britons and two babies, were killed during the crash on Tuesday March 24.

Investigators believe the plane's co-pilot Lubitz deliberately crashed the jet after locking the captain out of the cockpit. 

French prosecutors are calling on witnesses with footage of the disaster to hand it to authorities.  

Brice Robin, the lead crash investigator, said he was not yet examining mobile phones found at the site, and he was not aware of mobile phone footage having been recovered.

But the French prosecutor added that anyone with footage "must hand it over immediately to investigators”.

Separately, Lufthansa's chief executive has admitted it will take "a long, long time" to understand what led to a deadly crash in the French Alps last week - but refused to say exactly what the airline knew about the mental health of the pilot.

The airline said on Tuesday that Lubitz had told officials at the airline's training school in 2009 that he had gone through a period of severe depression, raising questions about the screening process for pilots.

Prosecutors have said he suffered from "suicidal tendencies" before obtaining his pilot's license.