Paris: Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of the Airbus A320 plane that mysteriously crashed in the French Alps was suffering from a ‘personal crisis’ after a failed relationship, as reported in the Daily Mail. Lubitz was engaged to be married next year. However, the 28-year-old had recently split from his partner. The theory emerged just hours after police began investigating the disaster.
As reported, the head of Lufthansa admitted the German had slipped through the ‘safety net’ and should never have been flying. He had suffered from depression and ‘burnout’ but still passed psychological assessments and was deemed fit to fly.
The black box voice recorder revealed passengers aware of their fate screamed in chilling final moments of Airbus A320.
The young German co-pilot barricaded himself alone in the cockpit of the Germanwings flight after he locked the captain out and took control of the airbus. He deliberately set it veering down from cruising altitude at 3,000 feet per minute.
German police searched his home for evidence that might offer some explanation for what was behind Tuesday’s crash in the French Alps.
The scenario stunned the aviation world. Within hours of the prosecutors’ announcement, several airlines responded by immediately changing their rules to require a second crew member to be in the cockpit at all times. That is already compulsory in the United States but not in Europe.
