Andreas Lubitz
Andreas Günter Lubitz (18 December 1987 - 24 March 2015 The European Union's top air safety agency has recommended similar changes to be introduced. A number of airlines announced similar changes to their policies. The Federal Aviation Administration in the United States already requires the "rule of two", as do several other countries. and Montabaur in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. His mother is 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.
Career
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, Lubitz took time off from his flight training for several months and informed the Flight Training Pilot School in 2009 of a "previous episode of severe depression". He later completed the training. Prior to his training as a commercial pilot, he was also 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.
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 later confirmed 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. On 28 March 2015, authorities searched his house again, finding evidence that he was taking prescription drugs and that he suffered from a "psychosomatic illness."
On 2 April 2015, German prosecutors revealed that Lubitz had performed Internet searches for topics related to suicide and aircraft cabin door security. On 3 April 2015, French investigators revealed that flight data recorder data indicated that Lubitz deliberately accelerated the rate of descent of the aircraft and steered the plane into the mountainside.
Career
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, Lubitz took time off from his flight training for several months and informed the Flight Training Pilot School in 2009 of a "previous episode of severe depression". He later completed the training. Prior to his training as a commercial pilot, he was also 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.
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 later confirmed 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. On 28 March 2015, authorities searched his house again, finding evidence that he was taking prescription drugs and that he suffered from a "psychosomatic illness."
On 2 April 2015, German prosecutors revealed that Lubitz had performed Internet searches for topics related to suicide and aircraft cabin door security. On 3 April 2015, French investigators revealed that flight data recorder data indicated that Lubitz deliberately accelerated the rate of descent of the aircraft and steered the plane into the mountainside.
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