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'''Andreas Günter Lubitz''' (28 December 1987<ref>[http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Andreas-Lubitz-Wer-war-der-Co-Pilot-von-Flug-4U-9525-id33511832.html Andreas Lubitz: Wer war der Co-Pilot von Flug 4U 9525? (Andreas Lubitz: Who was the Co-Pilot of Flight 4U 9525?)], augsburger-allgemeine.de (in German), retrieved 28 March 2015.</ref> – 24 March 2015)<ref group="n">There is some disagreement in the sources as to the age of Lubitz. Some sources state that Lubitz was 28 years old, but the date of birth cited by ''[[The New York Times]]'' would indicate that he was 27 years old when he died.</ref> was a [[German people|German]] pilot for [[Germanwings]], a subsidiary of the international airline [[Lufthansa]]. Lubitz was the co-pilot on [[Germanwings Flight 9525]], which crashed into the [[French Alps]] on 24 March 2015, killing him along with 149 others. French and German prosecutors and Lufthansa executives have said that they believe that Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/story/1453092/alps-crash-co-pilot-wanted-to-destroy-plane |title=Alps Crash Co-Pilot 'Wanted To Destroy Plane'|work=SKY News|accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Clark|first1=Nicola|last2=Bilefsky|first2=Dan|title=Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Airbus Jet, French Prosecutor Says|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/world/europe/germanwings-crash.html|accessdate=26 March 2015|work=The New York Times|date=26 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/mar/26/germanwings-plane-crash-investigation-press-conference-live-updates-4u9525|title=Germanwings Plane Crash Investigation|date=26 March 2015|work=The Guardian|accessdate=26 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germanwings-flight-4u9525-co-pilot-put-plane-into-descent-prosecutor-says-1.3010045 |title=Germanwings Flight 4U9525: Co-pilot put plane into descent, prosecutor says|date=26 March 2015 |work=[[CBC News]]|accessdate=26 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Levs |first1=Josh |last2=Smith-Spark |first2=Laura|last3=Yan|first3=Holly|title=Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot deliberately crashed plane, officials say|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/europe/france-germanwings-plane-crash-main/index.html|accessdate=26 March 2015|work=[[SFist]]|date=26 March 2015}}</ref>
'''Andreas Günter Lubitz''' (28 December 1987<ref>[http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Andreas-Lubitz-Wer-war-der-Co-Pilot-von-Flug-4U-9525-id33511832.html Andreas Lubitz: Wer war der Co-Pilot von Flug 4U 9525? (Andreas Lubitz: Who was the Co-Pilot of Flight 4U 9525?)], augsburger-allgemeine.de (in German), retrieved 28 March 2015.</ref> – 24 March 2015)<ref group="n">There is some disagreement in the sources as to the age of Lubitz. Some sources state that Lubitz was 28 years old, but the date of birth cited by ''[[The New York Times]]'' would indicate that he was 27 years old when he died.</ref> was a mass murderer<ref>http://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-australian/20150330/281565174262439/TextView</ref> and [[German people|German]] pilot for [[Germanwings]], a subsidiary of the international airline [[Lufthansa]]. Lubitz was the co-pilot on [[Germanwings Flight 9525]], which crashed into the [[French Alps]] on 24 March 2015, killing him along with 149 others. French and German prosecutors and Lufthansa executives have said that they believe that Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/story/1453092/alps-crash-co-pilot-wanted-to-destroy-plane |title=Alps Crash Co-Pilot 'Wanted To Destroy Plane'|work=SKY News|accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Clark|first1=Nicola|last2=Bilefsky|first2=Dan|title=Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Airbus Jet, French Prosecutor Says|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/world/europe/germanwings-crash.html|accessdate=26 March 2015|work=The New York Times|date=26 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/mar/26/germanwings-plane-crash-investigation-press-conference-live-updates-4u9525|title=Germanwings Plane Crash Investigation|date=26 March 2015|work=The Guardian|accessdate=26 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germanwings-flight-4u9525-co-pilot-put-plane-into-descent-prosecutor-says-1.3010045 |title=Germanwings Flight 4U9525: Co-pilot put plane into descent, prosecutor says|date=26 March 2015 |work=[[CBC News]]|accessdate=26 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Levs |first1=Josh |last2=Smith-Spark |first2=Laura|last3=Yan|first3=Holly|title=Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot deliberately crashed plane, officials say|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/europe/france-germanwings-plane-crash-main/index.html|accessdate=26 March 2015|work=[[SFist]]|date=26 March 2015}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 22:19, 29 March 2015

Andreas Lubitz
Born
Andreas Günter Lubitz

(1987-12-28)28 December 1987
Montabaur, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany
Died24 March 2015(2015-03-24) (aged 27)
Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
NationalityGerman
OccupationPilot
Known forGermanwings Flight 9525

Andreas Günter Lubitz (28 December 1987[1] – 24 March 2015)[n 1] was a mass murderer[2] and German pilot for Germanwings, a subsidiary of the international airline Lufthansa. Lubitz was the co-pilot on Germanwings Flight 9525, which crashed into the French Alps on 24 March 2015, killing him along with 149 others. French and German prosecutors and Lufthansa executives have said that they believe that Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane.[3][4][5][6][7]

Early life

Lubitz was born in Montabaur in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.[8] His mother was a piano teacher and his father was a business executive. Lubitz was accepted into a Lufthansa trainee program after high school, and starting in 2008, trained in Bremen, Germany and Goodyear, Arizona.[9] He then worked as a flight attendant at the airline during an eleven-month waiting period. He joined Germanwings in September 2013, and had 630 hours of flying experience at the time of the crash.[10] Lubitz took flying lessons at the local Westerwald aviation sports club (Luftsportclub Westerwald).[10] He trained as a pilot at the Lufthansa Flight Training school in Bremen.[10] Lubitz was a keen runner and ran the Frankfurt half-marathon in 2011, 2012 and 2013.[10] Before training as a pilot, Lubitz worked part-time at Burger King where his manager described him as "dependable and inconspicuous."[11]

Lufthansa Flight Training at Phoenix Goodyear Airport

Lubitz received pilot training through Lufthansa Flight Training and piloted planes at the Lufthansa Airline Training Center in Goodyear, Arizona.[12] Lubitz took time off from his flight training due to an onset of depression.[13] He later completed the training, having worked as a flight attendant before becoming a pilot for Lufthansa.

The University Hospital of Düsseldorf put out a statement that Lubitz had received treatment for a condition other than depression on 10 March.[14] He had a doctor’s note that excused him from work on the day of the crash, which was found torn up in his apartment.[11][15][16][17] Lubitz was receiving medical treatment for vision problems.[18] His ex-girlfriend, a flight attendant, said that he was stressed to even talk about work, and would wake up screaming at night.[19]

Germanwings Flight 9525 crash

Main article: Germanwings Flight 9525

Lubitz was the co-pilot on Germanwings Flight 9525, which crashed into the French Alps on 24 March 2015, killing him along with 149 others. French and German Prosecutors and Lufthansa executives have said that they believe that Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane.

Following the crash, German police searched Lubitz's apartment on 26 March 2015.[20] They subsequently issued a statement that Lubitz had been hiding an unspecified existing illness from his employer.[21] Prosecutors said the seized medical documents from Lubitz's home indicated "an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment." Among the documents found there were sick notes—torn up, current, and for the day of the crash—leading to the provisional assessment that the deceased was hiding his illness from his employer.[21] He flew even though he had a certificate saying he was not ready to work.[21] On March 28, 2015, authorities searched his house again, showing that he was taking prescription drugs, and suffered from a "psychosomatic illness."[21][22]

Cockpit voice recorder transcripts revealed that Lubitz repeatedly tried to get the aircraft captain to take a toilet break and leave him alone in the cockpit once the flight had levelled off at cruise altitude.[22]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ There is some disagreement in the sources as to the age of Lubitz. Some sources state that Lubitz was 28 years old, but the date of birth cited by The New York Times would indicate that he was 27 years old when he died.

References

  1. ^ Andreas Lubitz: Wer war der Co-Pilot von Flug 4U 9525? (Andreas Lubitz: Who was the Co-Pilot of Flight 4U 9525?), augsburger-allgemeine.de (in German), retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. ^ http://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-australian/20150330/281565174262439/TextView
  3. ^ "Alps Crash Co-Pilot 'Wanted To Destroy Plane'". SKY News. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  4. ^ Clark, Nicola; Bilefsky, Dan (26 March 2015). "Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Airbus Jet, French Prosecutor Says". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Germanwings Plane Crash Investigation". The Guardian. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Germanwings Flight 4U9525: Co-pilot put plane into descent, prosecutor says". CBC News. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  7. ^ Levs, Josh; Smith-Spark, Laura; Yan, Holly (26 March 2015). "Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot deliberately crashed plane, officials say". SFist. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  8. ^ Webb, Sam. "Who is Andreas Lubitz? Everything you need to know about the Germanwings co-pilot". Daily Mirror. London. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Officials: German pilot in crash trained in Goodyear". The Arizona Republic. Phoenix. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015. Ruecker said Lubitz also trained in Goodyear, Arizona.
  10. ^ a b c d Sawer, Patrick. "What we know so far about Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who "deliberately" crashed the Germanwings plane". Te. Retrieved 28 March 2015. Cite error: The named reference "telegraph1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  11. ^ a b "Germanwings crash: report that co-pilot Lubitz had suffered 'personal life crisis'". The Guardian. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Andreas Lubitz, Who Loved to Fly, Ended Up on a Mysterious and Deadly Course". New York Times. 26 March 2015.
  13. ^ "Andreas Lubitz: Everything we know on Saturday about Germanwings plane crash co-pilot". Telegraph. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015. A mother of a schoolmate told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he had told her daughter he had taken a break from his pilot training because he was suffering from depression.
  14. ^ "Co-Pilot der Germanwings-Maschine war zu Untersuchungen im Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf" (in German). 27 March 2015. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)
  15. ^ "Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz 'hid existing illness' from Germanwings". CBC News. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  16. ^ "Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz hid illness from employers". Business Insider. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  17. ^ Kauh, Elaine (27 March 2015). "Investigators: Germanwings Co-pilot Concealed Medical Treatment". AVweb. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  18. ^ Nicola Clark, Nicholas Kulish, Melissa Eddy (March 28, 2015). "Andreas Lubitz Sought Treatment for Vision Problems Before Germanwings Crash, Authorities Say". The New York Times. Retrieved March 28, 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ "Alps Germanwings crash co-pilot Lubitz 'made prediction'". BBC News. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  20. ^ Updated 0138 GMT (0938 HKT) March 27, 2015. "Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot acted deliberately". CNN. Retrieved 27 March 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ a b c d "Alps crash co-pilot 'hid illness'". BBC News. 27 March 2015. Cite error: The named reference "auto" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  22. ^ a b "Andreas Lubitz 'repeatedly urged Germanwings captain to leave him alone in the cockpit' before setting A320 on path to French Alps crash". The Independent. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

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