the flight voice recorder blaring cockpit alarms , warning co-pilot andreas lubitz .
the technology would work in a fashion similar to crash avoidance technology already used in automobiles .
if a pilot is incapacitated or ignores audible warnings , the plane 's guidance software could take over and plot a course to a safe altitude .
in fact , more than 10 years ago , following 9/11 , airbus , the manufacturer of the doomed aircraft .