Andreas Lubitz

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Andreas Günter Lubitz (born December 18, 1987 in Neuburg an der Donau ; † March 24, 2015 near Prads-Haute-Bléone , France ) was a German pilot .

As a co-pilot of an Airbus A320 of the German Wings flight 9525 he brought the plane in the French Alps deliberately crashed and caused by the deaths of 149 other people. According to the final report of the French investigation authority BEA, Lubitz deliberately and deliberately steered the aircraft against the mountain.

Life

Lubitz grew up until he was six years old in Neuburg an der Donau, where he lived with his parents with his grandfather (on his mother's side). Then the family moved to Montabaur . He attended the Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium there , where he graduated from high school in 2007 . At the age of 14 he became a member of the local glider club LSC Westerwald e. V. and got his glider license there about two years later . In 2008 Lubitz began pilot training at the Lufthansa Commercial Aviation School in Bremen , which he interrupted in 2009 for several months. Before his further training as a commercial pilot, he was " in psychotherapeutic treatment for a longer period of time with noted suicidality ". From 2011 to 2013 he ran the Lufthansa Frankfurt Half-Marathon .

After completing his training, Lubitz initially worked for eleven months as a flight attendant , and then from September 2013 as first officer (co-pilot) at the Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings . He completed about 630 flight hours on the Airbus A320.

Afterlife

A funeral service followed by a state ceremony was held in Cologne Cathedral on April 17, 2015 for those killed in the plane crash . Andreas Lubitz was also thought of with one of 150 burning candles.

On June 27, 2015, Lubitz was buried in Montabaur.

On July 6, 2015, insolvency proceedings over the Lubitz estate were opened at the Montabaur district court . The Alliance Insurance reported due to the payments made to relatives of deceased airline passengers payments to accounts receivable of EUR 7.5 million.

Investigations

On March 26, 2015, after the first evaluation of the voice recorder, the responsible French public prosecutor Brice Robin assumed that Lubitz had initiated a controlled descent as a pilot flying about two minutes after reaching cruising altitude. After leaving his post for a short time, he denied the flight captain re-entry into the cockpit by locking the armored cockpit door and did not respond to speeches from air traffic control. From the breathing noises recorded by the voice recorder, the public prosecutor concluded that Lubitz was alive until the impact and was able to act in view of the audible operating noises of the controls. The copilot acted in this way for reasons that are not yet known, but which can be interpreted as the will to destroy the aircraft. According to Jean-Pierre Michel, the head of a French delegation of investigators in Düsseldorf, the possibility of a technical defect that cannot be ruled out is also being investigated.

The French air accident investigation authority BEA stated on April 3, 2015 that the first evaluation of the flight data recorder confirmed the results of the voice recorder investigation. The co-pilot used the autopilot to descend the aircraft to an altitude of 100 feet (30  m ). "Then the pilot changed the settings of the autopilot several times during the descent in order to increase the speed of the descending aircraft."

A special commission was formed at the Düsseldorf police to investigate Lubitz's living conditions in Germany. During a search of his Düsseldorf apartment, according to the Düsseldorf public prosecutor, “torn, current sick notes, including those covering the day of the incident, ” were found. The public prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf therefore assumes that Lubitz has concealed an illness from the employer. As a flight student, he had already informed his employer Lufthansa about a previous depressive illness by email in 2009 . According to Lufthansa, he had sent medical documents to the Aviation School and described a previous "severe depressive episode" as having "subsided". The US aviation authority (FAA) was also informed about a depressive illness Lubitz 'in 2010 and only issued the US pilot license after a written declaration from the attending physician.

On April 2, 2015, the public prosecutor in Düsseldorf announced that the Lubitz tablet PC had been used to search the Internet for information on securing cockpit doors and on suicide; Looked for drug cocktails. Due to impaired vision and a fear of going blind, Lubitz had seen a total of 41 doctors in the five years prior to the crash, 7 in the last month. Some doctors diagnosed him as unstable and unfit to fly, or diagnosed anxiety disorders . Corresponding information was not passed on due to medical confidentiality .

The French investigative authority BEA published its final report on March 13, 2016 and confirmed the theory of the interim report, according to which Lubitz had locked himself in the cockpit and consciously and deliberately crashed the aircraft. He was taking anti-depressants at the time of the crash and suffered from a psychotic attack. Two weeks before the crash, a doctor had diagnosed Lubitz with a possible psychosis and recommended admission to a psychiatric clinic.

On the second anniversary of the event on March 24, 2017, the journalist Tim van Beveren presented the results of his own investigations at a press conference with the participation of Lubitz's father, according to which the co-pilot should not have intentionally caused the crash. It should be “taken into account” that Andreas Lubitz's health was impaired by “contaminated cabin air” , which could have caused “psychological changes up to a total cognitive failure”. Turbulence or technical defects were also possible. The responsible Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office immediately rejected these statements. The completed proceedings have shown "a clear responsibility on the part of Andreas Lubitz as the culprit". The French investigative authorities also confirmed that the copilot had deliberately crashed the aircraft. The Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Transport stated that there were no doubts about the results of the investigation. The German BFU and the French BEA also rejected the allegations made. Victim representatives described the press conference as "affront" and "tasteless". At the beginning of May 2017, the family of Andreas Lubitz published excerpts from Van Beveren's controversial report on the Internet, and in April 2018 the report was published in full.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Herrnkind : The diary entries of Andreas Lubitz. In: Stern.de , March 18, 2016, accessed on July 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Andreas Lubitz: first picture of Germanwings co-pilot's father emerges. In: Telegraph , April 7, 2015
  3. ↑ The rampage. In: Der Spiegel , 14/2015 of March 28, 2015, pp. 20–27, here p. 24.
  4. ^ The statement of the public prosecutor's office in full. Andreas Lubitz. Berliner Morgenpost , March 30, 2015, accessed on March 31, 2015 .
  5. ^ Andreas Lubitz: Everything we know about Germanwings plane crash co-pilot. In: Telegraph . May 6, 2015, accessed September 3, 2015 .
  6. ↑ "His father was always so proud" Andreas L. wanted to become a pilot. In: Focus Online . March 27, 2015, accessed March 30, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Kai Biermann, Frida Thurm: "He was happy about the job at Germanwings". Andreas Lubitz. In: Zeit Online . March 26, 2015, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  8. ↑ "We are connected through grief and pain". In: Zeit Online , April 17, 2015
  9. ↑ Divine service for Germanwings victims: “A whole country is moving together”. In: Spiegel Online , April 17, 2015
  10. ↑ Germanwings crash: Now death pilot Lubitz was also buried. In: BZ , June 29, 2015
  11. ↑ Insolvency proceedings at AG Montabaur. ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: MSN
  12. ↑ Germanwings disaster: Allianz demands millions from Lubitz's insolvency administrator. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 11, 2015
  13. ↑ a b Christoph Schäfer: What we know about the crash - and what not. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 29, 2015, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Le copilote a eu la "volonté de détruire l'avion" de Germanwings. In: france24.com. March 26, 2015, accessed April 13, 2020 (French).
  15. ↑ The strangely quick commitment to a truth. In: Die Welt , March 27, 2015.
  16. ↑ Press conference of the public prosecutor Brice Robin in full length on BMFTV (French)
  17. ↑ Second black box confirms the co-pilot's intention to crash. In: Spiegel Online . April 3, 2015, accessed April 3, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Press release II ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) by the Düsseldorf public prosecutor on the current status of the investigation results of March 27, 2015
  19. ↑ The co-pilot had informed Lufthansa about the depression. In: FAZ , March 31, 2015
  20. ↑ Lufthansa knew about the copilot's severe depression ( memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ^ Germanwings crash: US authorities knew about the co-pilot's depression. In: Spiegel online , April 30, 2015
  22. ^ Germanwings crash: Co-pilot found out about suicide on the net . In: spiegel.de . Retrieved April 2, 2015.
  23. ^ A b Germanwings crash: Public prosecutor classifies copilot Lubitz as unfit to fly. In: Die Zeit Online. June 12, 2015, accessed June 18, 2015 .
  24. ↑ Publication of the final report on the accident to the Airbus A320-211, registered D-AIPX and operated by Germanwings, on 03/24/15 at Prads-Haute-Bléone. In: bea.aero. BEA, February 29, 2016, accessed on April 13, 2020 : "(02/29/16) The BEA will release the final investigation report Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 11H AM during a press briefing."
  25. ^ Report on the Germanwings crash: Investigators for stricter control of pilots. In: tagesschau.de , March 13, 2016, accessed on March 13, 2016.
  26. ↑ Lubitz expert speculates about polluted cabin air. In: FAZ. May 3, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Petra Sorge: Or was it turbulence? In: The time . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  28. ↑ After a fact check, little remains of the Lubitz report. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Dirk Banse, Michael Behrendt, Per Hinrichs, Ibrahim Naber: Lubitz 'conspiracy theories. "Andreas was life-affirming and responsible". In: The world . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Reinhard Kowalewsky, Rena Lehmann: Günter Lubitz against the rest of the world. In: Rheinische Post . March 25, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Two years after the Germanwings crash. New report angered bereaved. In: Focus . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  32. ↑ Lubitz expert speculates about polluted cabin air. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 3, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  33. ↑ Tim van Beveren: Report on the Germanwings crash 4U9525 (excerpt, PDF). March 30, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Tim van Beveren: Report on the Germanwings crash 4U9525 (complete). April 18, 2018, accessed May 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lubitz, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lubitz, Andreas Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg an der Donau , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2015
Place of death near Prads-Haute-Bléone , France