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Mass-Killer Co-Pilot who Deliberately Crashed Germanwings Plane Had to STOP Training Because He Was Suffering Depression and 'Burn-Out'

• Black box voice recorder reveals chilling final moments of Airbus A320
• Passengers heard 'screaming' in final moments before crash that killed 150
• Prosecutor: 'The intention was to destroy the plane. Death was instant'
• Co-pilot was named today as 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz
• Raises serious questions about why he was allowed to fly commercial jet
• Airline boss insists Lubitz was '100% fit to fly' after passing medical tests
• Airline and the US knew he had mental illness during his training in US & Germany in 2009
• Pilot hid sick note 'unfit to fly' from Airline on day he crashed plane

Daily Mail UK, 27 March 2015


Police investigating the Germanwings crash tonight searched the home of pilot Andreas Lubitz, who deliberately ploughed the Airbus A320 into the French Alps.
Officers refused to reveal details of any potential breakthrough but said they had not found a suicide note.
Speaking outside the flat on the outskirts of Dusseldorf, police said they had 'found something' that would now be taken for tests, adding it may be a 'clue' as to what happened to the doomed jet.
German detectives were also pictured carrying evidence from a £400,000 home in Montabaur, a town 40 miles from Bonn, that Lubitz is believed to have shared with his parents.
The 28-year-old is understood to have split his time between the two addresses.
The forensic find comes hours after it emerged that Lubitz was forced to postpone his pilot training in 2008 because of mental health problems, with a friend saying he was 'in depression'.
The revelation will form a central part of the investigation and raises serious questions about why he was allowed to continue his training and whether enough was done to prevent the disaster.
Airline bosses confirmed Lubitz had taken several months off work and had to retrain to join the firm, but insisted he was '100 per cent fit to fly' after passing all medical tests.

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First picture: Germanwings co-pilot - 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz (above) - locked his captain out of the ****pit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it has been revealed




Potential breakthrough: Detectives carry boxes from Lubitz's apartment on the outskirts of Dusseldorf. It emerged that a 'significant discovery' had been made at the address, but police would not give further detail




Investigation: Officers refused to reveal details of the potential breakthrough but said it was not a suicide note. Above, a German police investigator carries a cardboard box out of Lubitz's address outside Dusseldorf




Speaking outside the flat, police said they had 'found something' that would now be taken for tests, adding it may be a 'clue' as to what happened to the doomed jet. Above, officers carry evidence from the property




A person covered with a blanket is led by police officers from the house believed to be Lubitz's family home. The 28-year-old is understood to have split his time between the property and his flat


Earlier today, the chilling final moments of Flight FU 9525 were revealed by French prosecutors who said Lubitz's sole aim was to 'destroy the plane'.
Audio files extracted from the plane's ****pit voice recorder - discovered yesterday at the remote crash site - revealed Lubitz locked his captain out of the flight deck minutes before the crash.
The captain was heard growing increasingly distressed as he tried to force his way back into the ****pit and passengers' screams were heard in the final moments before impact.

The investigation is now a full-blown criminal inquiry following revelations of the pilots' argument.
Specialist criminologist officers today spent three and a half hours searching Lubitz's top-floor flat and were later seen removing three boxes.
Markus Niesczery from Dusseldorf Police told the Daily Mail: 'We wanted to search to see if we could find something that would explain what happened.

Criminologists enter house thought to belong to Andreas Lubitz







German detectives were also pictured carrying what appeared to be computers from the £400,000 home in Montabaur, a town 40 miles from Bonn, that Lubitz is understood to have shared with his parents




Search: Officers leave the property believed to be Lubitz's family home with what appears to be a computer


'We have found something which will now be taken for tests. We cannot say what it is at the moment but it may be very significant clue to what has happened.
'We hope it may give some explanations.'

Police said the inside of the flat in the‎ Ekrath suburb‎ 10 miles outside Dusseldorf city centre looked 'completely normal.'
They declined to say if he lived there alone. He was listed on the letterbox with another person named Goldbach.
Mr Niesczery said it was believed to be the only address he had lived in in Dusseldorf and he had not lived here 'very long.'
It also emerged today that his parents only discovered that their son was a mass murderer just minutes before the bombshell press conference by prosecutors in Marseille.




Lubitz was sitting in this ****pit, pictured, when he commanded the jet to crash into the Alps at 400mph




Under guard: Police keep the media away from the house where pilot Andreas Lubitz lived in Montabaur, Germany, after it was revealed he was responsible for the death of all 150 people on board the Airbus A320




Recovery: A rescue worker is lifted to a helicopter with what appears to be the body of a victim from the crash


Lufthansa CEO Spohr says co-pilot had break in training





His mother, a piano teacher, and father, a successful businessman, were understood to be in the French city at the time of the announcement, but kept separate from the victims' relatives.
Their whereabouts is now unknown, but it is believed they are being questioned by police.

German detectives have also raided the €500,000 (£400,000) family home in Montabaur, 40km from Bonn, as well as his apartment in Dusseldorf.


At an extraordinary press conference earlier, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin gave a disturbing account of the ****pit voice recordings extracted from black box.
He said Lubitz locked his captain out after the senior officer left the flight deck.
At that point, Lubitz used the flight managing system to put the plane into a descent, something that can only be done manually - and deliberately.
He said: 'The intention was to destroy the plane. Death was instant. The plane hit the mountain at 700kmh (430mph).

'I don't think that the passengers realised what was happening until the last moments because on the recording you only hear the screams in the final seconds'.
Referring to Lubitz, Mr Robin said: 'He did this for a reason which we don't know why, but we can only deduct that he destroyed this plane.
'We have asked for information from the German investigation on both his profession and personal background'.

Mr Robin said he had no known links with terrorism, adding: 'There is no reason to suspect a terrorist attack.'
And asked whether he believed the crash that killed 150 people was the result of suicide, he said: 'People who commit suicide usually do so alone... I don't call it a suicide.'

Responding to revelations, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said all pilots undergo annual medical checks, but not special psychiatric assessments beyond training.





German police prepare to open the house believed to belong to Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz




German detectives raided the £400,000 family home in Montabaur, 40km from Bonn, as well as his apartment in Dusseldorf as part of their investigation into the pilot's state of mind leading up to the crash




Investigators enter the house in Dusseldorf where Lubitz is understood to have lived. It is believed his parents will be questioned as part of the investigation into the Germangwings disaster




The door sign at the house of Andreas Lubitz in Montabaur, Germany. He had just 600 hours of flying experience after joining Germanwings in 2013 straight from training



French Prosecutor: Co-pilot appears to have crashed deliberately






He added: 'He passed all medical exams, all checks. He was 100 per cent fit to fly without any restrictions.
'I am not a lawyer. I am the CEO of a big company. If one person takes 149 people with him to death, it is not suicide.'

Germanwings said: 'Not in our worst nightmare could we imagine something like this happening.'

However, a schoolfriend told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he had once taken a break from his training because of mental health issues.
The woman said: 'Apparently he had burnout, he was in depression.'

Lubitz had just 600 hours of flying experience after joining Germanwings in 2013 straight from training.




Final photo: Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi took this picture moments before boarding the plane




Relatives of the victims of the Germanwings air crash attend a tribute in honour of their loved ones in Le Vernet, south-eastern France




German and Spain flags symbolising some of the nationalities of the victims are seen as family members and relatives gather for a ceremony in Le Vernet near the crash site of the Airbus A320 in the French Alps




Grim task: Rescue workers rake through debris of the Germanwings jet near Seyne-les-Alpes in France


Father of American plane crash victim speaks out





He was, however, highly regarded, having won an award from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2013 for his outstanding flying skills.
He is understood to have shared his time between his parents' house in Montabaur, a town 40 miles from Bonn, and an address in Dusseldorf.
He was also a member of the LSC Westerwald flying club in Montabaur, where he obtained a gliders licence.
His recently deleted Facebook page appeared to show him in a dark brown jacket posing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in California. The page was wiped at some time in the past two days.
He lists his interests as aviation and music, including French DJ David Guetta.

Little has been gleaned from his profile, although in 2013 he went to the Las Marenas resort in Miami with a male friend, on holiday.
In Montabaur, acquaintances today said Lubitz showed no signs of depression when they saw him last autumn when he renewed his glider pilot's license.

'He was happy he had the job with Germanwings and he was doing well,' said a member of the glider club, Peter Ruecker, who watched Lubitz learn to fly. 'He gave off a good feeling.'

Lubitz had obtained his glider pilot's license as a teenager and was accepted as a Lufthansa pilot trainee after finishing a tough German college preparatory school, Ruecker said.
He described Lubitz as a 'rather quiet' but friendly young man.
Klaus Radke, chairman of the flying club, told MailOnline that he flew at the club between the ages of 14 and 20.





LCD displays show black ribbons with the flight number of Germanwings 4U 9525 at Dusseldorf airport in memory of the victims of the doomed Germanwings plane which crashed in the French Alps



Police at house believed to be that of Greenwings co-pilot





He said he was a 'normal, open-minded person', adding: 'I can't believe that he has died.
'It was his dream to become a pilot and he had been extremely happy after fulfilling this dream'.

A black ribbon bearing the number of the doomed Germanwings flight he was aboard appeared on his flying club's website.
A tribute to him read: 'With great dismay, the members of the LSC Westerwald e.V have heard of the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525.
'With horror, we acknowledge that among the dead is a longtime member of our association.
'Andreas died as First Officer on the tragic flight.
'As a teenager, Andreas joined our club to realise his dream of flying. He started as a glider student and made it to be a pilot on an Airbus A320.
'It was his dream fulfilled, the dream he so dearly for with his life. The members of the LSC Westerwald mourn Andreas and the other 149 victims of the disaster.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to the victims of all nationalities. We will not forget Andreas.'

The tribute was removed from the internet minutes after French prosecutors accused him of murder.




'He gave off a good feeling': Peter Ruecker, a member of the glider club in Montabaur who watched Lubitz learn to fly, said the Germanwings pilot showed no signs of depression when he saw him last autumn




Klaus Radke, chairman of the LSC Westerwald aviation club where Lubitz was a member, described the Germanwings co-pilot as a 'normal, open-minded person'




Lubitz's Facebook page lists his interests as aviation and music, including French DJ David Guetta



Germanwings co-pilot called 'nice young man' by flight club





One colleague told Germany's Rhine newspaper: 'He was a fitness fanatic who jogged most mornings and evenings and you could often find him returning home from sports shops carrying health supplement bags.
'He was a friendly guy, who had a great deal of respect in the town, he was mostly engaged with the local flying club.'

Another woman identified only as Ulrika told Bavarian radio: 'Everybody is stunned in this town to learn the news, he grew up here, went to school here and came back most weekends from Dusseldorf when he wasn't flying.
'This is a great loss to us, and we are perplexed to think that he might have caused the deaths of so many people.'

Police were called out to his home in the Rhineland town as numerous groups of journalists descended on the town seeking information about him.
It is understood that his parents will be questioned as part of the investigation, which will undoubtedly focus on his mental health in the lead-up to the disaster.
Giving further details of the final moments in the ****pit, Mr Robin said Lubitz's responses were initially courteous, but became 'curt' when the captain began the mid-flight briefing on the planned landing of the plane.





French prosecutor Brice Robin sensationally reveals that the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the ****pit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane'




In turmoil: Relatives of the victims board a bus after their arrival at Marseille airport ahead of the press conference by French prosecutor Brice Robin


Merkel refers to plane crash as 'utterly incomprehensible'





The captain - named by local media as German father-of-two Patrick Sonderheimer - then left the ****pit but found himself locked out when he tried to re-enter.

Mr Robin said: 'We hear the pilot asking the co-pilot to take over and we hear the sound of a chair being pushed back and a door closing so we assume that the captain went to the toilet or something.
'So the co-pilot is on his own, and it is while he's on his own that the co-pilot is in charge of the plane and uses the flight management system to start the descent of the plane.
'At this altitude, this can only be done voluntarily. We hear several shouts from the captain asking to get in, speaking through the intercom system, but there's no answer from the ****pit.'

Audio from the recording captures Mr Sonderheimer furiously pounding on the door to no avail.
Mr Robin said Lubitz 'voluntarily' refused to open the door, adding that his breathing was normal throughout the final minutes of the flight.





A bus transporting the families of the Germanwings victims is escorted by French police into Seyne-les-Alpes, where the remains of those on board the plane were being taken by helicopter from the crash site




French soldiers stand guard at a gymnasium as they wait for the arrival of families of the victims of flight 4U 9525 for the grim process of trying to identify the bodies from the crash site


Families of crash victims arrive at memorial in the Alps




He said: 'His breath was not of somebody who was struggling. He never said a single word. It was total silence in the ****pit for the ten past minutes. Nothing.'

Air Traffic Control at Marseille asked for a distress signal, but there is still no response.
He added: 'So the plane becomes a priority for a forced landing.
'Control asks other planes to contact this Airbus and no answer is forthcoming.
'There are alarm systems which indicate to all those on board the proximity of the ground. Then we hear noises of someone trying to break into the door.
'The door is reinforced according to international standards.'





Principal of the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school Ulrich Wessel (second left) and students gather in front of flowers and candles to pay tribute to the 16 children and two teachers who died in the Airbus disaster




People hold a minute of silence outside Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in Haltern am See








State Premier of North Rhine Westphalia Hannelore Kraft writes an entry in the condolence book for the victims of the Germanwings A320 crash at the State Parliament in Duesseldorf, while pupils mourn in front of flowers placed at the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, Germany, where 16 children died




A woman signs a condolence book in Seyne-les-Alpes church, France, in memory of Germanwings victims


Mr Robin went on: 'Just before final impact we hear the sound of a first impact. It's believed that the plane may have hit something before the final impact.
'There is no distress signal or Mayday signal. No answer was received despite numerous calls from the tower.'

The investigation is now a full-blown criminal enquiry following revelations of the argument on board.
The fate of the Germanwings plane has chilling similarities to that of LAM flight 470 which crashed in Namibia in November 2013, killing all 27 passengers and six crew.

Air crash investigators believe the Embraer 190 jet was flown into the ground by the captain after his co-pilot went to the toilet.
The jet's captain, Herminio dos Santos Fernandes was believed to have had serious personal problems at the time of his death.
When his co-pilot went to the toilet, flight data information recovered from the scene found that Fernandes manually changed the aircraft's altitude from 38,000 feet to almost 600 feet below ground level.
He also pushed the aircraft's throttles back to idle and selected the jet's maximum operating speed.

Distubringly, the ****pit voice recorder picked up the sound of the co-pilot pounding on the door in an attempt to regain access to the flight deck.





Audio taken from the black box voice recorder (pictured) that was salvaged from the obliterated wreckage of the Airbus A320 indicates the pilot left the ****pit and could not re-enter, it has been reported


A purser's Airbus ****pit EMERGENCY access procedure






Four specialists from Interpol have joined senior French detectives trying to work out why Lubitz locked himself into the ****pit.
The Airbus A320 suddenly began a fatal eight-minute descent shortly after reaching cruising altitude.
No distress signal was sent and the crew failed to respond to desperate attempts at contact from ground control.

Interpol, the international criminal police organisation, today confirmed that it has sent a team of experts to assist with the enquiry at the request of the French enquiries.
Four Interpol officers will initially be based with a crisis cell being coordinated from Paris.
Jurgen Stock, head of Interpol, said: 'Interpol is committed to providing all the support required by countries hit by this tragic accident'.

The revelations came after audio files taken from the black box recorder had earlier suggested that one of the pilots was forced to try and smash down the door after being unable to enter the flight deck

Experienced pilots today told MailOnline that under normal conditions crew have an emergency access code to enter the ****pit through the locked door.
They can only be stopped from using it if whoever is inside the ****pit manually – and intentionally – disables it.
The revelation will heighten fears that suicide or a terror attack was the cause of the disaster.
Locks on ****pit doors were introduced throughout the world's airlines in the aftermath of 9/11 to keep terrorists from taking the controls in a hijacking.









The revelation is the first insight into what took place on the aircraft in the moments before the plane plummetted into the mountainside, killing all 150 people on board. Above, the crash site today





Obliterated: Search and rescue teams sift through the wreckage of the Germanwings plane on Wednesday


Tony Newton, a commercial pilot with 20 years' experience of flying A320 aircraft, told MailOnline: 'This takes the whole thing off in a different direction.
'Blocking access requires a deliberate action on behalf of the pilot. It's a pretty dark thing to have happened.'
Mr Newton told MailOnline: 'When the ****pit door is locked, it is possible for the crew to punch in a code from the outside and gain access, unless the person in the ****pit over-rides it.
'The person in the ****pit can see them on CCTV trying to get in, and flick the switch to block their request. This is in case an undesirable person outside is trying to gain access.
'If the person in the ****pit doesn't want you coming in, you're not coming in.
'In the system used by the majority of airlines, if the pilot passes out in the ****pit, you can always get in.'


Mr Newton said there have been examples of pilots committing suicide by crashing their planes, notably the Egypt Air Crash in 1999 and the Silk Air disaster in 1997.

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