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Title: Co-pilot of Germanwings aircraft was depressed : Report
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URL Source: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/0 ... ot-deliberately-crashed-Airbus
Published: Mar 27, 2015
Author: staff
Post Date: 2015-03-27 06:07:14 by Tatarewicz
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German media reports say the co-pilot of the Germanwings plane who “intentionally” crashed the aircraft in the French Alps suffered from depression and anxiety.

The German daily Bild reported that Andreas Lubitz was seeking professional help to cope with his condition in 2009, adding that the co-pilot was still under medical treatment for his psychiatric disease at the time of the incident.

Earlier, French prosecutor Brice Robin, who is in charge of the crash investigations, revealed that the crash was intentional after his team examined the plane’s audio black box.

“The co-pilot, through a deliberate act, refused to open the door of the cockpit to the commander, and activated the button that commands the loss of altitude,” he said.

The Airbus A320 aircraft, operated by Germanwings, a low-cost subsidiary of Germany’s flag-bearer, Lufthansa, disappeared off the radar at about 1030 GMT on March 24, about halfway on its route from the Spanish city of Barcelona to Dusseldorf in Germany. Eight minutes later the plane crashed into the French Alps,killing all 150 people on board. This image shows scattered debris of the crashed Germanwings Airbus A320 on March 26, 2015 (AFP PHOTO)

The investigators said they were still trying to determine for sure why the captain had left the cockpit and why Lubitz, aged 27, would commit such a deliberate act.

However, the prosecutor’s assertions have already led to the change in the nature of the investigation of the crash that killed people from more than a dozen countries, including two sports journalists from Iran. The German police are searching his house for evidence that might offer some explanation for what was behind the crash.

In 1999, an EgyptAir flight from the United States to Egypt crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 passengers on board, due to what investigators said had been the co-pilot’s “manipulation of the airplane controls.”

Following the recent incident some airlines have applied the “rule of two” to their flights, ensuring two crew members were in plane cockpit at all times.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Prescription psychotic meds strike again?

Pinguinite  posted on  2015-03-27   12:25:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Pinguinite (#1) (Edited)

I guess depression can be a real killer, if you pardon the pun. I wonder if his living with parents should have been a tip off to investigate/watch him more closely? His facial expression doesn't indicate a happy camper.

It should be remembered that the enhanced cabin security was brought about as a result of the 9/11 hoax perpetrated by Israel and its neocons to get wars going against Afghanistan and Iraq which Israel considered enemies.

Hospital confirms to have Germanwings co-pilot as patient

BERLIN, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A hospital in Duesseldorf said on Friday that the co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings A320 flight on Tuesday had been a patient there in the last two months.

The University Hospital of Duesseldorf said in a statement that Andreas Lubitz, who was identified by French prosecutor as the co-pilot in the crashed Germanwings 4U9525 flight, visited the hospital as a patient in February 2015 and his last visit was on March 10, 2015.

The hospital said Lubitz was receiving a diagnosis evaluation, but refused to disclose more details.

It also denied previous media reports that the co-pilot was suffering from depression.

"Reports that Andreas L. was treated in our hospital for depression are incorrect," the statement read.

The hospital said it had handed over the medical records to the Duesseldorf prosecutor who announced earlier on Friday that a torn-up sick leave note was found in the co-pilot's residence in the western German city.

"We will support the investigation by the prosecutor strongly and unreservedly," said Klaus Hoeffken, hospital's chief executive said.

According to the Duesseldorf prosecutor, the sick leave note was valid for the day the crash happened. Documents containing medical information that "indicates an existing disease and appropriate medical treatment" were also among the findings in the co-pilot's home.

The prosecutor made the assumption that the co-pilot "concealed his illness towards his employer and his occupational environment."

Germanwings declared on Friday afternoon that a sick note for the tragic day, when the co-pilot appeared to have deliberately crashed the plane in the southern French Alps, killing all 150 people on board, had not been submitted to the company.

On Thursday, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr told reporters that the co-pilot had passed all the company's medical tests and was "100 percent fit to fly with no restriction." However, he admitted that there was no regular psychological checks for Lufthansa and Germanwings' pilots.

A spokesman for the German Aviation Association (BDL) told Xinhua that there was currently no concrete plans to introduce separate psychological tests for German pilots in addition to routine checks, but he did not rule out the possibility of holding discussions in the future over whether it was necessary to adopt new rules on the topic.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2015-03-27   21:02:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2) (Edited)

Good points, folks. Most of what the authorities do in the name of safety and security leads to more death and fear, in keeping with their rule of always doing the opposite of what they say.

The more we learn about this case the more it smells. Wikipedia crumbs, some redundant:

The French prosecutor, the French and German aviation authorities, and a spokesperson for Germanwings have said the crash was intentionally caused by the co-pilot, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz, who was earlier deemed unfit for piloting duty by his doctor over mental health concerns. Does anybody happen to know how often airlines have 27-year-olds in cockpits?

Lubitz had taken time out from his pilot training in 2009;[16] an acquaintance of Lubitz stated that this was due to having suffered from burnout and depression.[17] He had 630 flight hours of experience. 630? Why does that sound ridiculously low? And like somebody being promoted just because he's somebody's son or nephew. How else could this have happened? Germans are the most famously efficient, systematic people on earth. Easy to imagine amerika pulling something like it off with its berserk passion for “equality” and “diversity”, but other countries are decades behind us in that department.

.......German detectives found a letter in a waste bin in Lubitz's apartment. The letter indicated that he had been declared "unfit to work" by a doctor. Germanwings reported that it had not received any sick note for the day of the flight. I tell you, it spells special favors or maybe even c-o-n-s-p-i-r-a-c-y.

Many surnames ending in "itz", etz" etc. are Jew. Searching the name at Wikipedia brings up this oddity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Vanzler

The Trotskyite's bio was written by a couple named Lubitz. Film director Ernst Lubitsch was Jew. As the world wakes up to Jew treachery a Jewish Samson mentality has already been observed in headlines. Considering the anti-goy hatred that many Jews suck in with their mothers' milk, Jew paranoia generally, and definitional Jew hatred of Germans, it would be quite easy to imagine a young Chosenite pulling something like this out of racial spite.

The establishment is positively known to use airline mayhem to damage countries it hates. If those Malaysian flights actually went down, don't wonder why. For a while Malaysia had the only head of state (besides Ahmandinejad) to say the unsayable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad#Middle_East_and_remarks_about_ Israel_and_Jews

With 9/11 the schemers hamstrung a large chunk of amerikan commerce – airlines. Don't ever forget how they decapitated the Polish government for a second time just a few years ago, a mind-numbing atrocity curiously never mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash

Power Jews despise Poland too.... What makes me think this Germanwings affair is out of the same mold as Columbine? Klebold was Jew, Harris also from what I'm told. I'm doing a lot of conjecturing here but even if it turns out to be dead wrong, these trends are very real and, I think, must be kept in mind as freakish news continues to pour forth.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-03-28   2:26:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)

AM radio reported that his ex-girlfriend said that he was afraid that he would lose his license, and that he said that he would "do something" that would make the whole world "know his name."

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2015-03-28   8:33:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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