The co-pilot of a Germanwings flight that slammed into an Alpine mountainside “intentionally” sent the plane into its doomed descent, a French prosecutor said Thursday.
Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said the commander left the cockpit, presumably to go to the lavatory, and then was unable to regain access. In the meantime, he said, co-pilot Andreas Lubitz manually and “intentionally” set the plane on the descent that drove it into the mountainside in the southern French Alps.
It was the co-pilot’s “intention to destroy this plane,” Robin said.
The information was pulled from the black box cockpit voice recorder, but Robin said the co-pilot did not say a word after the commanding pilot left the cockpit.
“It was absolute silence in the cockpit,” he said.
During the final minutes of the flight’s descent, pounding could be heard on the door as alarms sounded, he said.
In the German town of Montabaur, acquaintances said Lubitz was in his late twenties and showed no signs of depression when they saw him last fall as he renewed his glider pilot’s license.
The Germanwings Airbus 320 plane crashed Tuesday morning in Southern France around 11:20 a.m. local time while traveling from Barcelona to D?sseldorf in the French Alps, according to the New York Times. 150 people were on board (144 passengers and 6 crew).
Germanwings confirmed Wednesday that an Israeli citizen was among the 150 people killed in the crash.
He was found to be a recent convert to Islam.
We really need to demand moshiach. It’s way overboard.
Here’s me davening that it wasn’t a yid… HY”D!
maybe the co pilot fell ill and was unconscious?
His name was Eyal Baum, which, unfortunately, is a Jewish name
.. now a mass murder… How dare he take that huge responsibility and take 150 innocent people to death. let him burn in gehennom
mr baum 36 years ols
His name was Eyal Baum and he was on his way to join his family for Pesach.
Arab…? Not likely.
this is also due to the fact that the world in general, I think, does not have enough proper awareness of mental health information
Israeli national or citizen can also be an Arab (for all of us interested if any of our brothers/sisters were on the plane).
Its interesting to note that Israel was the first country to implement a policy where if the pilot or co pilot leave the cockpit, then a flight attendant must take his seat till he gets back. this was implemented for the purpose of avoiding this exact problem. Israel always taking security measures before disasters happen
you would think that airplane personnel especially pilots should have a psychiatric evaluation at least every six months or so to see that they are efficiently coping and if depressed or manic and even being treated, their licenses should be suspended until further notice..scary..
notice that if this is true, that this sick individual had to take other lives with him? That is just evil. What kind of mind would take other lives……
how sickly narcissistic.
Eimachshemo