Was Germanwings Air Crash a Deliberate Act of Terrorism?

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It was announced early today by Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin that the co-pilot of the Germanwings airliner that crashed in the French Alps initiated the plane’s doomed descent in a “deliberate attempt to destroy the aircraft.”

Debris from Germanwings crash. Pic The Daily Beast.com.
Debris from Germanwings crash. Pic The Daily Beast.com.

A senior official had previously announced that the other pilot was locked outside of the cockpit and banging on the door when the plane crashed. Investigators have identified the plane’s co-pilot as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz, a German citizen.

Robin also said at Thursday’s news conference that he was considering investigating the case as voluntary manslaughter, rather than involuntary manslaughter.

All 150 people on board the flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany, were killed.

Officials added that there weren’t any signs of terrorism in connection to the plane’s crash, although the FBI has been called in to assist in the investigation, a clear indication that something motivated this heretofore professional pilot to intentionally crash his aircraft.

Source: CNN, The New York Times

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9 years ago

Unless Mr. Lubitz was just crazy, which is doubtful, because I believe one of his managers or fellow pilots would have noticed, there is something else to this story. Why that training absence?

Mimi Michalski
9 years ago

I didn’t know about the “going missing” thing. That does raise my suspicions as to his motives.

9 years ago

The co-pilot locked the Captain out of the cockpit then intentionally crashed the plane.

He apparently ‘went missing’ for 6 months during his training but had many awards for excellence.

Where he ‘went missing’ to is still unresolved.

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