[ConservativeInPA]

Just some background info.

[Erik Latranyi]

Whoa!

Just found this on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Soutien-%C3%A0-Andreas-Lubitz-h%C3%A9ro-de-lEtat-Islamique/431945353632095

Soutien à Andreas Lubitz, héro de l’Etat Islamique
Support for Andreas Lubitz, hero of the Islamic State

I wonder if someone did this intentionally?!

[billorites]

Almost every word in this article about pilot certification is incorrect.

[SE Mom]

I posted this on another thread too...makes you wonder what this young man was about. He was only 28. So bizarre.

[TomGuy]

Accdg to on Peter Johnson on FoxNews, there seems to be some discrepancy:

Some sources say the co-pilot only had 600 hours of training, but to received the FAA recognition would require substantially more experience.

[Textide]

They pull data from the FAA Airman Certification database and generate these pages for any pilot. Do a search for the name of any pilot you know and they will have such a page.

You can search for any pilot with an FAA certificate here (but must first enter information about yourself): https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/

This guy had a foreign-based restricted Private cert and 3rd Class FAA medical. Probably did some flying for fun when he visited the US.

[Prospero]

And that Aviation Business website is an on-the-fly Search Engine spoof generator product, with all the earmarks. It’s noise, regardless.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I call BS. Seems to me this German was flying around Europe.

[Hulka]

Good Lord. . .met or exceeded the standards is not being lauded by the FAA. . .means he is licensed.

[justlurking]

This is click-bait.

You can find my name with the same automatically-generated article.

[keat]

My working theory is that the co-pilot was despondent over Netanyahu’s reelection.

[depressed in 06]

I think Lubitz was gamer and wanted to experience crashing a plane into a mountain. The fatal flaw in this plan was to explain the experience you have to survive the crash, which, most gamers do.