Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz ‘wanted to make everyone remember him’

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The co-pilot on the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps wanted to do “do something” history would remember him by, according to reports. 

 

Andreas Lubitz, 27, had hidden a sicknote declaring him unfit to work on the day of the disaster before boarding the Düsseldorf-bound Airbus A320 and flying it into a mountain in the southern French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

 

According to the German newspaper Bild, a former girlfriend of Lubitz, identified only as Mary W, said he had told her last year: “One day I will do something that will change the whole system, and then all will know my name and remember it.”

 

 

She added: “I never knew what he meant, but now it makes sense.”

 

And the flight attendant, 26, said the pilot, who took a break in his training due to reported “burnout syndrome”, had suffered nightmares and his behaviour had scared her.

 

She told the paper: “At night, he woke up and screamed: ‘We’re going down!’, because he had nightmares. He knew how to hide from other people what was really going on inside.” 

 

As legal experts warned that the airline’s parent company, Lufthansa, could face compensation claims for hundreds of millions of dollars, Düsseldorf prosecutors said they had found the torn-up doctor’s note covering the day of the disaster – Tuesday 24 March.

 

 

“Medical documents were found that indicate an ongoing illness and appropriate medical treatment,” the statement said. “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.”

 

No suicide note or claim of responsibility had been found, the prosecutors said.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/germanwings-co-pilot-andreas-lubitzs-background-under-scrutiny

 

So he actually planned this for a long time?

[PrinceGaga 7,644]

Remembered for killing innocent children? Wow what a brave soul... He will be remembered for being a complete a**hole so... 

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Then do something cool, mothafocka, do not kill 200 innocents  

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By killing innocent children? Wow what a brave sole... He will be remembered for being an a**hole I guess. 

Yeah I think there's more to this than just depression. He sounds like a psychopath.

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Downright pathetic, worse than scum.

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This just shows how disturbed he was. Scary to think people like this could be our neighbors. 

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Cockpit recorder details last moments of ill-fated Germanwings flight

 

The Germanwings flight started like any other, the conversation in the cockpit normal, with co-pilot Andreas Lubitz offering no indication of the horror he would allegedly inflict.

 

This is how Flight 4U 9525, which investigators believe Lubitz deliberately steered into a French mountainside, unfolded according to French prosecutors and Germany’s Bild newspaper.

 

Both accounts are based on information from the cockpit voice recorder captured by one of the black boxes discovered among debris of the Airbus A320 that crashed in the Alps Tuesday.

 

- Captain Patrick S. apologises to passengers for a 26-minute delay in take-off and says they will try to catch up the time during the flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Sunday’s Bild said.

 

- The plane took off at around 10am local time and for the first 20 minutes the pilots “spoke in a normal fashion, courteous, like normal pilots. There was nothing abnormal,” French prosecutor Brice Robin told reporters on Thursday.

 

- According to excerpts published by Bild on Sunday, during the conversation the captain said he didn’t have time to go to the toilet before leaving Barcelona and Lubitz offered to take over at any time.

 

- At 10.27 am local time (0827 GMT), the plane reaches its cruising altitude of 11,600 metres (38,000 feet) and the captain asks Lubitz to begin preparations for landing, according to Bild.

 

- The responses from Lubitz remained normal, but “very short… not a real dialogue,” Robin said.

 

- According to Bild, the co-pilot is heard saying, among other things, “hopefully” and “let’s see”. After checks for the landing, he is heard telling the pilot he can go now. Two minutes pass and the pilot then says to Lubitz “you can take over”.

 

- Bild and Robin said the sound of a seat being moved back is heard and a door closing. “We can assume he left to answer nature’s call,” Robin told reporters.

 

- At 10.29, the plane begins to descend, Bild noted.

 

- The French prosecutor believes that, once left alone, Lubitz turned a button on the flight monitoring system that began the plane’s descent.

 

“This action can only be deliberate,” Robin said. “It would be impossible to turn the button by mistake. If you passed out and leaned over on it, it would only go a quarter-way and do nothing.”

 

- The Airbus A320 jet descended rapidly for eight minutes, according to the low-cost carrier Germanwings.

 

- At 10.32, air traffic controllers try to make contact with the plane but receive no reply and an automatic alarm is heard going off at almost the same time, according to Bild.

 

- The newspaper said that shortly afterwards there was a loud bang, like someone trying to open the door and re-enter the cockpit. The captain can be heard shouting “For God’s sake, open the door”, as passengers’ screams begin to be heard in the background.

 

- Robin had indicated last week that the black box recorded increasingly frantic attempts by the pilot to break down the heavily reinforced door as per international standards, to which Lubitz made no response.

 

- At 10.35, Bild said “loud metallic blows” against the cockpit door can be heard, with another alarm sounding about 90 seconds later. At around 5,000 metres altitude, the pilot is heard screaming “open the damn door”.

 

- At 10.38, Bild’s account indicates the sound of Lubitz’s breathing but him saying nothing. “He does not say a single word. Total silence,” Robin said of the co-pilot during the descent.

 

- Around 10.40, the plane hits a mountain and passengers’ screams are heard — the last sounds on the recording, according to Bild.

 

- The plane dropped gradually from around 10-12,000 metres to 2,000 slowly enough, Robin said, that passengers would have been unaware anything was wrong.

 

“I think the victims were only aware at the very last moment. The screams are heard only in the last instants before the impact,” said Robin.

 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/cockpit-recorder-details-last-moments-of-ill-fated-germanwings-flight/

 

Poor people.  

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News reports are now saying Lubitz received anti-psychotic medication injections a few years back. That means this guy had a complete break with reality...was seeing and hearing things that didn't exist. He should have never been given a license to fly, especially commercial planes. 

 

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News reports are now saying Lubitz received anti-psychotic medication injections a few years back. That means this guy had a complete break with reality...was seeing and hearing things that didn't exist. He should have never been given a license to fly, especially commercial planes. 

 

How is it possible that employer didn't know? Is Lufthansa still paying anything to the families of victims?

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How is it possible that employer didn't know? Is Lufthansa still paying anything to the families of victims?

The compensation to the victims' families will come later. Looking at this new information, Lufthansa is going to owe hundreds of millions to families, not just the standard amount. 

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The compensation to the victims' families will come later. Looking at this new information, Lufthansa is going to owe hundreds of millions to families, not just the standard amount. 

Yeah it's huge amount of money, that's why I'm reading some conspiracy theories that they're setting him up, but it doesn't really make sense.