Germanwings crash: Investigators deny discovery of video footage of crash

French investigators have contradicted reports by two European media outlets who claimed a video was found at the crash site of Germanwings Flight 9525 showing the terrifying moments inside the passenger jet before it slammed into a mountain in the French Alps last week.

A spokesman said that although cell phones have been recovered, investigators have not yet examined their contents and that he was not aware that any of them were in good enough condition to have accessible data.

On Tuesday, French magazine Paris Match and German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said their reporters have been shown a video they say was taken by someone inside the cabin of the doomed plane shortly before it crashed.

Both periodicals reported that the video was found on a memory chip that could have come from a cellphone. Paris Match said the footage was found "among the wreckage by a source close to the investigation."

Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin, overseeing the French criminal investigation into the crash, said on Tuesday night that no cell phone video has been found from the plane.

Lieutenant Col. Jean-Marc Menichini, a high ranking official involved in the recovery operation, categorically denied that any cell phone footage had been found by investigators at the site.