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Germanwings Co-Pilot "Deliberately Destroyed" Airplane, Identified As 28-Year Old German Citizen
In one of the most chilling segments of this morning's press conference describing what was found on the cockpit voice recorder, screams were heard from passengers and crew as the realisation of what was about to happen struck them all. Prosecutor Brice Robin's findings state that when the German Captain left the cockpit - following what appeared to be - the 28-year-old German co-pilot (who was alive to the end) refused to re-open the door and began an "intentional", "controlled", and "steady" descent as he "seems to have sought to destroy the plane." Nothing indicates that this was a terrorist incident.
“At this moment, in light of investigation, the interpretation we can give at this time is that the co-pilot through voluntary abstention refused to open the door of the cockpit to the commander, and activated the button that commands the loss of altitude,” the prosecutor, Brice Robin, said.
He said it appeared that the co-pilot’s intention had been “to destroy the aircraft.” He said that the voice recorder showed that the co-pilot had been breathing until before the moment of impact, suggesting that he was conscious and deliberate in his actions. He said that his inquiry had shown that the crash was intentional.
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The descent was not a nose-dive and passengers would have been unaware until the last few minutes that anything was out of order...
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The last 30 minutes...
- *ROBIN SAYS INVESTIGATORS HAVE TRANSCRIPT OF LAST 30 MINUTES
- *ROBIN SAYS COMMANDER ASKED CO-PILOT TO TAKE COMMAND
- *ROBIN SAYS COMMANDER LEAVES COCKPIT, LEAVING CO-PILOT
- *CO-PILOT STARTED FLIGHT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DESCENT: ROBIN
- *DESCENT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN VOLUNATRY, ROBIN SAYS
- *COPILOT DIDN'T RESPOND TO CALLS TO OPEN DOOR: ROBIN
- *COMMANDER TRIES TO RE-ENTER COCKPIT BUT NOT ABLE: ROBIN
- *CO-PILOT APPEARS TO HAVE REFUSED TO OPEN DOOR FOR PILOT: ROBIN
- *COPILOT WAS ALIVE TO THE VERY END: ROBIN
- *COPILOT'S BREATHING HEARD TO THE VERY END: ROBIN
- *ROBIN SAYS C0-PILOT HAD NORMAL BREATHING, NO SIGN OF ILLNESS
- *CO-PILOT CAN BE HEARD BREATHING RIGHT UP TO FINAL IMPACT: ROBIN
- *FRENCH PROSECUTOR ROBIN SAYS CO-PILOT REFUSED TO OPEN COCKPIT
The implications...
- *CO-PILOT SEEMS TO HAVE SOUGHT TO DESTROY THE PLANE: ROBIN
- *CO-PILOT APPEARS TO HAVE WANTED TO DESTROY AIRPLANE: ROBIN
Details on the pilots...
- *CO-PILOT WAS GERMAN CITIZEN, ROBIN SAYS
- *ROBIN SAYS HE HAS NO IDEA ABOUT PILOTS' RELIGIONS, ETHNICITY
- *ROBIN REPEATS THAT BOTH PILOTS WERE GERMAN CITIZENS
- *ROBIN SAYS THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE IN CABIN BESIDES COPILOT
- *ROBIN SAYS GERMANWINGS DESCENT WAS CONTROLLED AND STEADY
- *ROBIN SAYS CO-PILOT HAD WORKED FOR A FEW MONTHS
- *ROBIN SAYS CO-PILOT HAD A FEW HUNDRED HOURS OF EXPERIENCE
- *ROBIN SAYS COMMANDER HAD 10,000 HOURS OF FLYING EXPERIENCE
- *CO-PILOT WAS 28 YRS OLD: ROBIN
The WSJ identifies the co-pilot as Andreas Lubitz...
The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday was Andreas Lubitz, 28, of Montabaur, according to a flight club where he was a member.
“Andreas became a member of the club as a youth to fulfill his dream of flying,” the LSC club said in a death notice on its website.
“He fulfilled his dream, the dream he now paid for so dearly with his life,” the club said. It said he was the co-pilot of the flight. A member of the flight club identified him to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
And finally...
- *ROBIN SAYS NOTHING INDICATES TERRORIST INCIDENT
- *ROBIN SAYS CRASH APPEARS AT THIS POINT TO BE `INDIVIDUAL FAULT'
Prosecutor: In the case of an individual's deliberate act, is the airline responsible? "That's another debate." #crashA320
— David Jolly (@davjolly) March 26, 2015
Horrific...
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you're wildly speculating
None of this is substantiated
His actions were intentionally. He knew what he was doing. He remained calm throughout (as far as breathing is concerned).
that's more like it but unless we understand who pulled his strings, we have nothing
The button to put the plane into descent has to be pushed several times. It was intentional.
Why not call this a eposide of "Snakes on a Plane"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Squ9a2kO4
/sarc
Low interest rates causing 'huge problems' in Germany: Schaeuble
I'd say! http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/26/us-germany-schaeuble-idUSKBN0M...
Greece war retributions, Beriln dodging obligations, Secret Swiss accounts create exposure by a plane crash investigation.
Microsoft shareholders demand reparations from China for their 80% stolen software. American citizens demand reparations from China for the negative impact on the US economy of China lying about their population in order to game the UN for 50 years, all the stolen IP and the second largest demographic of illegal aliens.
I don't travel much, but when I do, I go Greyhound.
Be careful. 6 Flags is patenting this as a new amusement park ride.
Bus sucked into sinkhole and swept away by river, Brazil
guy had a history of depression.
good chance he was on SSRIs.
Those dont cause most people to go nuts, but it does seem to be a cure that is worse than the illness in some people.
Bear in mind, nobody really knows what the fuck SSRIs do - completely - to afffect mood. Yes yes, blocking reuptake selectively. But serotonin is used all over your body, and differentially in your brain.
Anyway some of the comments here show a healthy minority of ZHers are whack jobs and/or Fox/Drudge type Islamophobes....
which I can get enough of pretty much anywhere on the internet.
You must be in the medical industry feeling the effects of lost income streams. The days of keeping your perpetual client uncured are over. Rat science by destroying a simple insurance policy. Glad you supported ObamaCare. You just eliminated your job. We plan on repealing it. Calm the fuck down! Don't make the same mistakes twice. We will revoke your licence to practice in the medical field. Look at the bigger picture.. FYI
What fucking jerks down voted you . nothing you said is out of bounds... psychotropic drugs do have side effects.. and most of the mass shooters have been on them including the guy who did Sandy Hook . and certainly Columbine . most of the military suicides are on psychotropic drugs..... so there is a case to be made .. do those drugs make the problem worse .. that question has to be asked. According to the results of all controlled studies of antidepressants, suicide attempts are more frequent among patients taking antidepressants (1.7% of the cases) than among patients receiving placebo (0.8%). These data may be related to methodological bias which are discussed here. They do not initiate to restrain the prescription of antidepressants to depressed patients but to provide more frequent consultations and even to hospitalize depressives at high risk for suicide. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9138936
This will leed to more sanctions against Russia
How will more sanctions effect Russia? We have 20+ years with Iran. Then Halliburton got caught selling goods and services under a PO box? Share your thoughts.
Being snarky. Last time a plane went down in Central Europe, Russia got sanctioned.
"And up 'til today you can hear the wandering soul of Andreas Lubitz, among the sounds of howling wolfes.", told the old bearded man to the group of young boy scouts. A shiver run down their spines, looking at the mountain.
Seriously. This Ski resort is either doomed (who wants to ski where 150 people died - and most likely will never be recovered) or maybe this just put the place on the map. Sometimes humans can be strange creatures...
He was a “Psychopath”; mission, to kill HUMANS …
Do not look for other then; IT’S my mission to what I was program to do…
“WW3 WILL BE THE Reptiles & Psychopath VS. Human”
…And Civilization
Will change face for Ever...
Saludos...
You saw it on TV. If you weren't there you don't know what happened, or if it even really happened at all. Welcome to the Matrix.
Thanks for the saftydoor.
I´ll remember that next time I fly, the saftydoor is for my own safty. Just like the total surveilance and my speeding ticket.
I´m sure NSA is logging this message right now for my saftys sake!
Enough of what Robin has to say! I want to know what BATMAN thinks!
So in addition to countless numbers of men women and children being molested in our airports the "war on terror/liberty" has prevented one pilot from from taking back control of his plane. In the old days a nancyboy could kick down the door to the flight deck (if there was one) and a lot of pilots packed heat in their flight bags.....
I guess it is fair to say the Age of Innocence is over?
Everything about this story is too convenient...
I'm leaning towards the more "outlandish" theories.
If I have come to understand ANYTHING about TPTB...it's that nothing is as it seems at first, second or third glance !
Remember...Order Out Of Chaos...it says so right on the 1$ bill!
And if you look out of the right-hand side of the aircraft, you'll see s beautiful close-up view of the French Alps. Ignore that pilot trying to break down the cockpit door.
The scenario of locking a pilot out of the cockpit was never considered.
in a world with nearly 8B people life is suddenly precious. or is it?
i've noticed that in San Diego, Americas' finest city, that it is open season on pedestrians and bicyclists. if you run over someone don't stop, go home and sober up first. Then take a look at the damage, if you have a Hummer or one of those big SUVs there probably isn't much, just go out and bump a tree a few times, and take it into the shop. the crosswalk only helps them improve their aim so a lot of pedestrians dont' use them, which is a wise move actually. On the other hand if you see a dog which has been hit by a car you stop, call the veterinary ambulance and they fix the dog for free and find it a good home. No questions asked.
you also can't help but notice the instances of suicide by commuter train. (why would you do that when there is a perfectly good crosswalk?) a lady pulled her car onto the tracks the other day and sat there until the train hit her. there is also suicide by cop, you climb up on the roof of your house with an unloaded rusty old shotgun and dare the cops to take you down. with all the blood diseases no cop wants to get close enough to come in contact with any of your bodily fluids. american sniper, part II.
some people go to great lengths to create elaborate suicide rituals, binding themselves up before taking a naked bungee jump from the balcony (open case, Rebeca Zihou) the family insists it was foul play, the young woman was nanny to a boy who inexplicably fell down the stairs and died the week before. he was only five, it that too young to consider ending your life? she may have been despondent. no one takes a handful a barbituites and a bottle of vodka any more. (MM?)
soliders with PTSD often end their lifes, this town is military and exmilitary. my neighbor (ex-marine) killed himself last year, gunshot i believe. most common among young men is suicide by motorcycle, which may not be as popular as it was, because as i alluded to, making some kind of statement is important to the victim, and taking a few with you becomes part of that statement.
and being an enabler ( a doctor Kervorkian) is part of the act which makes it very similar to an act of sado masochism, it takes two to make a suicide, and murder suicide is by far the most popular. i expect the next cover of Time will have something to do with suicide, and probably a great deal about the medications which incidentally do not breakdown, and traces of anti-depressants can be found in rain water, rain water, Mandrake.
Gen Ripper used a 45, after considering the possibility of torture.
From a Psychoanalytic perspective the only motivator for a co-pilot would be control of the plane. As a kid the co-pilot had always wanted to become a pilot, and as soon as he was able to take control of the plane without a pilot at the helm he availed himself of the opportunity. The co-pilot's last act in this World was intentional because he was classically conditioned over years of testing and assessment to become a pilot so that he could control the ship. In brief, when faced with total control over his own life, and that of passengers, he opted for a behavioural response that was in direct opposition to the classical conditioning that he was formally trained to adhere to. ERGO, it's either hypnosis/mind control false flag, or the dude was suicidal and depressed from a lack of rest and sleep. The religious component is not applicable because if he was a religious zealot the airline would have detected it during assessment/background checks. Moreover, all accidents in aviation are always attributed to "pilot error" if one reads up on causality issues associated with plane crashes.
NOTE: From a business perspective it is best to attach liability issues to a defective 'pilot/co-pilot' rather than claim it was due to the failure of any part of the mechanical engineering associated with the plane. In this way the manufacturer is always protected from liability and the manufacturer never has lost sales due to manufacturing defects in the overall design of the plane, or the parts. The manufacturer always maintains a healthy stock price, and the insurance companies quickly pay off the accident claims so that all the litigators are happy.
Only take the best and highest paying airlines, smart and good pilots go there. Don't go for these low budget ones.
Nothing in the co-pilots profile or character suggests he would be a candidate for this.
Next!
There is now!
how so?
Young man who loved flying since he was a kid. Grows up, becomes pilot and lives his dream. Described as funny with a good sense of humor. Nothing at all to suggest he was depressed or suicidal.
Suicide candidates generally do not want to cause harm to anyone else. Going out with a bang like this, noticing there were babies on the plane does not fit the criteria for a typical suicide candidate.
MAKES NO SENSE
Assuming he crashed the plane .. these is now something in his background ......
I will agree there is "something" in his background. Still takes quite a bit to not only commit suicide but to knowingly destroy 150 lives given the opportunity when the Captain goes for a piss. Do you realize how far fetched this is and that it just doesn't fit the profile of typical suicide candidates?
What, the guy Andreas wakes up that morning and goes for breakfast in Barcelona. Then decides this is the day and this is the flight he is going to crash into the mountain as soon as the Captain leaves the cockpit?
Andreas had to intentionally hit the descent button several times to get the plane down. He overrode the cockpit safety door. He ignores the Captain's attempts to open the door and he ignores the numerous communication attempts by ground control? Ok, he may have turned off the radio.
Speaking of radio. Is there no radio outside the cockpit to communicate with the ground?
Did you read his profile . he suffered from burnout and depression six years ago . but had passed recent tests .. thousands of seemingly 'well' people commit suicide .. Lubitz interupted his training years ago .. only coming back to it a few years ago .. a man bent on suicide is not particularly worried about who he is going to take with him . I have seen mothers attempt suicide taking their kids wth them .. there is a kind of twisted logic .. but then a suicide is not thinking . .he is simply acting out his mental and emotional problems . even if it means taking out others. '''''''
However, it has emerged that while pilots undergo regular medical physicals, flight crew at Lufthansa are not subjected to ongoing psychological tests.
The evidence appears to show that, although the locked-out captain punched the emergency number into the cockpit door to gain entry, the co-pilot inside then relocked the door. So Lubitz was obviously bent on suicide taking everyone with him.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012937/Germanwings-pilot-Andreas-Lubitz-28-praised-exceptional-flying-skills-rising-star-fleet.html#ixzz3VW6AlKKgFollow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
still doesn't pass the smell test.
nobody close to him described him as psychotic.
there are tell tale signs, trust me.
Was he taking psychotropic drugs that cause suicidal thoughts, like many multi-person shooters have taken?
How does crashing a plane into a field in Amerika count as terrorism, while crashing a plane into a mountain in France not count?
Depends on what the agency was trying to accomplish. What message are they trying to get across? This looks like a major mind f*ck directed at the Germans. Germans famously look after their German brothers. And now this. I'm with Walkurie on this one, but my keyboard has no umlaut. Does not in any way pass the smell test.
One of the three Americans killed in the crash was Yvonne Selke, a 23-year veteran employee of the intelligence firm Booz Allen Hamilton, who was contracted to the National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) located near Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia. Selke lived in Nokesville, Virginia. NGA analyzes imagery intelligence from the global network of America's spy satellites. NGA's current top priority in satellite imagery of Iran in the final days of sensitive negotiations on Iran's nuclear program between Iran and the P5+1 nations of the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany. Israel has been spying on these negotiations and sharing the intelligence with Republicans in the U.S. Congress opposed to any nuclear deal with Iran. Selke's daughter Emily, a Drexel University graduate, also died in the crash. State Department's spokesperson Jen Psaki refrained from identifying the third American.
Rescue workers had difficulty reaching the impact area of the aircraft due to the inaccessible terrain and snow. However, it was also reported that ultra-Orthodox Jews with Chabad had descended upon the area in an attempt to recover the remains of an Israeli passenger on board the aircraft. Details about the Israeli, Eyal Baum, 39, who at first was described as a "businessman" who lived in Germany, remain sketchy. Later reports indicated that Baum worked for the Mango MNG Holding, S.L. retail fashion company and lived with his wife in Barcelona. Baum's Israeli family expressed some dismay that they received no official Israeli government word on Baum's death but had to rely on news reports and a phone call from his company that relayed Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmation of his death. Mango is headquartered in Barcelona and owned by Isak and Nahman Andic, Sephardic Jews who are originally from Istanbul.
Two Iranian sports reporters, Milad Hojatoleslami of the Tasnim news agency and Hossein Javadi, with the Vatan-e-Emrooz newspaper, also died in the crash. They had just covered the Barcelona to cover the Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona "El Clasico" soccer match in Barcelona and were en route to cover a match in Vienna between the national teams of Iran and Chile. Vienna is also the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is playing a key role in the Iran-P5+1 nuclear negotiations in Geneva.
The French military must have suspected something suspicious from the outset of the plane's disappearance from radar screens without a distress call. Within minutes of the disappearance of the aircraft, a French air force fighter jet intercepted the Airbus's last known position.
Anyway the intervention by the French fighter jets seems far more rapid and proper than the "interception", in September 2001, by the US super-fighters, which were still missing hours after the attacks ...
Records say he suffered from burnout and depression but passed recent psychological and flgiht tests .. my bet he was on psychotropic drugs .. or just suicidal .. taking a lot of innocents with him .. .maybe they should go back to old three man crew . a third officer .. a navigator . also give the cockpit door a code option . so that all the pilot has to do is either punch in numbers or have biometric.. in any event where a nut has will . he wil find a way. For every solution to the problem . .someone will find away around it. By the way ... crashes have occured courtesy of pilots not knowing how to manually manage an emergency .. French sirliner went down in the US . pilots did not know how to manually fix the problem ... usually these pilots have come through flying lessons rather than the military .. fewer and fewer military pilots available .. Lubitz .. so the rumor goes . lived in Marsellles for a time with his parents.. not sure if that is true or not ..
A little more on the Non- Goyum boys....
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-chabad-couple-to-be-expelled-from-i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Rubin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Krugel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations
http://www.chabad-mafia.com
-Will Rogers
When I die, I want to die like Nelson Rockefeller.
I don't have as much faith in the assessment of the investigators as everyone else seems to. All of this hinges on his breathing being normal. Would your breathing be normal if you were about to crash a plane? I can't help wondering if something happened he became disoriented and eventually non-responsive and despite that his breathing appeared normal.
And to answer your question. I am not an anti-semite, I am an anti- ZIONIST and NEOCON.
It is the same reason why Les Moonves (President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation) great-uncle was David Ben-Gurion the first Prime Minister of Israel. Just a coincidence, right?
If there is one lie, then the whole thing is a lie.
It is a lie that the passengers would not have known that the plane was descending 32K ft. in 10 minutes, therefore the whole thing is a lie. They had to tell that lie to plug a hole in the story. Seriously, the plane descended 32K ft. with the Alps in view, and the passengers only started screaming in the last minute?
I know immediately when the plane starts descending. They could not have thought it was landing only 1/2 hr. into the flight with the Alps in view.
This story is a cover.
as for the "depression" theory, it is reported from an unnamed "source" 3rd hand by a supposed mother of an aquaintance of the co-pilot.
What are they covering up? The ten minutes of terror?
Maybe something like the plane's controls were hacked into, and taken over. Not sure, but it is definitely a lie, and if there is one lie then the whole thing is a lie.
10 min? I'd have found a way into that cockpit and beat the shit outta that bitch.
The on-board axe was probably in the cockpit.
I was once in seat 1B during a night take-off and the cockpit door flew open on takeoff. The flight attendent freaked a bit but did not or could not leave the jump-seat to close the door until the later. It was an awesome view.
if the first thing released is a lie the san fran cisco photo above then everything else is lies of the rabbi
If ATC sees this descent can they not remotely take control of the plane?
just a reminder... as others have pointed out. Our fair pres. was quick to point out this was NOT terr'ism.
Oh, and early reports of the crash i heard on the radio all said there WAS a distress signal of some sort.
And the captain had left the cockpit to:
a) take a shit
b) bang a flight attendant in the galley
c) do another line of coke in the shitter
d) do another line of coke in the shitter AND bang a flight attendant
e) all of the above
such belief in the bbc type news framing of the story
going great guns
after the years of lies and countless tavistock psychological operations
buildings coming down 30 mins early
having foreknowledge or information of criminality the bbc becomes part of the crime crew.
all i have seen is a picture above of a man in front of a big bridge a fake picture for starters.
already now we get a back story israeli operatives on 4 dollars an hour allah snackbar comments.
all lies believe nothing these cocksuckers say is truth.
benedict cumberbatch making speech at late buriel of richard the turd.
queer actor burying an empty tavistock box.
i smell the usual suspects.
mi6,mossad and cia doing rothchild wet works
init
his last name might be german but could his first name be of another origin...chechnyn maybe ???
Here's a wild theory. The flight reached cruising altitude somewhere over the Med. An hour or so into the flight and still well before reaching the French shores, the plane diverts from the path and starts its descent. Plane could have been aiming to crash straight into one of the rich towns along the French Riviera. Maybe even going straight into Monte Carlo, Monaco. French fighter jets get up to possibly intercept the plane. Monte Carlo is guarded possibly heavier than Fort Knox. Completely logical that the French military would try everything possible to make sure, this plane does not crash into the one place where many rich & famous live year round. Most expensive real estate, most expensive penthouse ever being built and so on.
There you go. There is a possible motive and a possible story of why the plane ended up in the mountains rather than crashing into the party at Monte Carlo's crabs tables.
Just Breaking......Little Fucktard was a recent Muslim Convert. Whoda Thunk it?
The truth is what Victoria Nuland will say, as usual.
(As directed by her fellow cabals)
Several recent plane crashes have been blamed on pilot suicide. If that were so, why do we not see buses full of passengers being driven into concrete embankments? Seems to me a bus driver is far more likely to be suicidal than an airpane pilot.
According to his Facebook page he was a recent muslim convert. Color me shocked.
On Friday, the German newspaper Bild said that the Lufthansa flight school in Phoenix, Arizona had designated Lubitz at the time as “not suitable for flying”.
The newspaper said he spent a year-and-a-half receiving psychiatric treatment. Several times he was forced to repeat his flying classes because of depression, before he successfully finished his training. In 2009 he was diagnosed with a “severe depressive episode”, Bild reported.
He was given “special regular medical examination” by a doctor as well as the coding “SIC” which stands for "specific regularly occurring medical examinations" performed by a doctor. This coding also appeared on his pilot’s licence.
Citing police sources, Bild said the investigation is examining whether Lubitz had been suffering from a “personal life crisis”. He is said to have had a relationship crisis with his girlfriend and to have suffered emotional problems. The local Westerwälder newspaper said Lubitz and his girlfriend had been together for seven years and were living in a flat in Düsseldorf.
Lufthansa has yet to respond to the claims. Bild, Germany’s best-selling newspaper, is normally – though not always – a reliable source of news, and has an extensive network of sources.
“The flight deck is capable of accommodating three pilots and there shouldn’t ever be a situation where there is only one person in the cockpit,” said James Hall, a former chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Board, referring to the “jump seats” all airliners are equipped with.
Others questioned the wisdom of sealing off the cockpit at all. “The kneejerk reaction to the events of 9/11 with the ill-thought reinforced cockpit door has had catastrophic consequences,” said Philip Baum, London-based editor of the trade magazine Aviation Security International.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
http://www.bild.de/bild-plus/news/ausland/flug-4u9525/was-steht-in-der-g...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/germanwings-co-pilot-andrea...
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Investigators looking into the background of Lubitz for clues as to why he may have wanted to take his own life – and to kill 149 other people - find torn-up sick note
Investigators searching the Düsseldorf apartment of the co-pilot on the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday have found evidence he hid an illness from his employers, prosecutors said on Friday.
The evidence is a torn-up doctors’ note, signing him off work on the day of the crash.
“Medical documents were found that indicate an ongoing illness and suitable medical treatment,” Düsseldorf prosecutors said in a statement.
“The circumstance that torn-up current medical certificates - also pertaining to the day of the act - were found, supports, after preliminary examination, the assumption that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and his professional circles.”
“Investigations as well as the assessment of the medical treatment documents will take some days. As soon as reliable findings emerge, we will inform relatives and the public.”
No suicide note or claim of responsibility has been found, the prosecutors said.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/germanwings-co-pilot-andrea...
GERMAN prosecutors revealed the “significant discovery” made at Germanwing co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s home was a sick note covering the day of the crash.
Prosecutors found torn-up and current sick leave notices suggesting he was ill and receiving medical treatment, backing up suspicions he hid his illness from his employer and colleagues. While investigators did not specify what illness Lubitz had, German media reports he needed ongoing assessments for severe depression, BBC reports.
The news comes following revelations the captain used an axe to try and get back into the cockpit. German daily Bild cited security sources saying the captain,
Patrick Sonderheimer, tried using an axe to break down the cockpit’s armoured door.
This could not be immediately confirmed, but a spokesman for Germanwings confirmed to AFP that an axe was on board the aircraft.
Such a tool is “part of the safety equipment of an A320,” the spokesman told Bild.
Lubitz reportedly suffered a major breakdown following a recent relationship breakdown.
According to The Telegraph in the UK,
Lubitz was engaged to be married next year, but had recently broken up with his fiancee.
It is understood that the 28-year-old was struggling to cope after the relationship failed.
The theory emerged hours after The Guardian reported Lubitz stopped his training to be a pilot six years ago because he was suffering from “psychological problems”.
The report, quoted from German daily Bild, said the Lufthansa flight school in Phoenix designated Lubitz at the time as “not suitable for flying”.
Yesterday, police announced they had made a “significant discovery” at Lubitz’s home in Dusseldorf.
German media also reported that police were investigating one particular piece of paper which they believe held clues to Lubitz’s horrific actions.
Markus Niesczery of Dusseldorf Police told the Daily Mail: “We wanted to search to see if we could find something that would explain what happened.”
“We have found something which will now be taken for tests. We cannot say what it is at the moment but it may be a very significant clue to what has happened,” Mr Niesczery said.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/what-we-know-about-a320-co-...
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