About that GermanWings Airbus 320 flight #4U9525, which crashed, killing all on board…
When we found out that one of the pilots left the cabin and was locked out, I assumed the crash was no accident, but that it was not necessarily caused by the co-pilot. Conceivably, when the pilot left, a terrorist might have entered, locked the door and overwhelmed/killed the co-pilot.
Now information has just been released indicating that, based on the “black box” audio, it was the co-pilot who intentionally crashed the plane.
We also now know that the co-pilot had only 633 hours in the air. In the USA, you can\’t be a co-pilot without at least 1,500 hours.
But even more troubling, the name of the co-pilot has not been released. Why? Is there something about the co-pilot they don\’t want us to knows?
More as it becomes available.
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UPDATE: According to an article at London\’s Daily Mail, the co-pilot was a 28 year old man named Andreas Gunter Lubitz. The Daily Mail also reports that the plane was brought down manually, then crashed into the mountain, over a ten minute period, during which Lubitz said not one word, even as the captain was banging on the cockpit door demanding to be let in. Still no word about his personal life – but I would think it likely we\’ll be hearing about that before the day is out.
