The Germanwings co-pilot: What we know so far
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Version 0 of 1. ●Andreas Lubitz was the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, which crashed in France on Tuesday. He was 27, and he began his career as a pilot for Germanwings in September 2013. ●French authorities, who are investigating the crash, said information gleaned from a flight voice recorder showed Lubitz deliberately flew the aircraft into the French Alps, killing himself and all 149 others on board. ●Authorities said they did not know Lubitz’s motive. A French prosecutor said there was no indication that the crash was a terrorist attack, and German authorites said he had no known ties to terrorist groups. ●Local officials in Düsseldorf, Germany, told the Associated Press that previous security checks on Lubitz, the most recent conducted in late January, turned up no problems or concerns. ●Lubitz lived with his parents in his home town of Montabaur but kept an apartment in Düsseldorf, the destination of Flight 9525. ●He joined an aviation club near Montabaur as a teenager, and by the time of the crash he had about 630 hours of flight experience, according to a spokesman for Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings. ●Lubitz was accepted into Lufthansa’s pilot training program in 2008 and trained at facilities in Bremen, Germany, and in Arizona. ●Lufthansa’s chief executive said Lubitz took a break from his training six years ago, for reasons that remained unclear Thursday, but added that he was considered “100 percent fit to fly” on the day of the crash. Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world |