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Andreas Günter Lubitz (18 December 1987 – 24 March 2015) was a German pilot for Germanwings, a subsidiary of the international airline Lufthansa. He was the co-pilot of 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.

Early life

Lubitz was born in Montabaur in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. His mother was a piano teacher and his father a business executive. While in high school, Lubitz worked part-time at Burger King where his manager described him as "dependable and inconspicuous." He took flying lessons at Luftsportclub Westerwald, an aviation sports club in Montabaur.

Lubitz was accepted into a Lufthansa trainee program after high school. Starting in 2008, he received pilot training at the Lufthansa Flight Training school in Bremen, Germany and at the Lufthansa Airline Training Center in Goodyear, Arizona. Lubitz took time off from his flight training due to an onset of depression. He later completed the training. Prior to his training as a commercial pilot, he was treated for suicidal tendencies.

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. Lubitz was a keen runner and ran the Frankfurt half-marathon in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

The University Hospital of Düsseldorf stated that Lubitz had received treatment for a condition other than depression on 10 March.

Germanwings Flight 9525 crash

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. They subsequently issued a statement that Lubitz had been hiding an unspecified existing illness from his employer. 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. He flew even though he had a certificate saying he was not ready to work. On March 28, 2015, authorities searched his house again, finding evidence that he was taking prescription drugs, and suffered from a "psychosomatic illness."

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 30 March 2015.
2. ^ "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).
3. Webb, Sam. "Who is Andreas Lubitz? Everything you need to know about the Germanwings co-pilot". Daily Mirror. London. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
4. "Germanwings crash: report that co-pilot Lubitz had suffered 'personal life crisis'". The Guardian. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
5. ^ Sawer, Patrick. "Andreas Lubitz: Everything we know about Germanwings plane crash co-pilot". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
6. "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.
7. "Andreas Lubitz, Who Loved to Fly, Ended Up on a Mysterious and Deadly Course". The New York Times. 26 March 2015.
8. "Andreas Lubitz: Everything we know on Saturday about Germanwings plane crash co-pilot". The Daily 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.
9. "Germanwings-Absturz: Co-Pilot war vor Jahren wegen Suizidgefahr in Behandlung". Spiegel.de. Template:De icon
10. Hanna Kozlowska (26 March 2015). "What we know so far about Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who "deliberately" crashed the Germanwings plane". Qz.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
11. "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)
12. "Alps Crash Co-Pilot 'Wanted To Destroy Plane'". Sky News. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
13. 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.
14. "Germanwings Plane Crash Investigation". The Guardian. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
15. "Germanwings Flight 4U9525: Co-pilot put plane into descent, prosecutor says". CBC News. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
16. 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.
17. 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)
18. "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.

External links

• Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane' on BBC News

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• German aviators
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• Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in France