Another article:
He was facing a potential medical examination that could have seen his pilot’s licence removed and it is thought he may have feared mental or other health problems would bring an end to his dream.
Former BA pilot Alastair Rosenschein said pilots of Lubitz’s age face regular medicals as well as simulator tests and can be grounded if they fail to pass. He told MailOnline: ‘He may have known that his career was already over. He may have known that the end was in sight.’
Mr Rosenschein said that, in Britain, pilots under 40 face annual or bi-annual medicals and, as well as testing physical health, doctors often ask questions to assess pilots’ mental health.
He added: ‘However, it’s difficult to see how a doctor could foresee something like this. There are no rules that someone who is having marital or financial difficulties cannot fly, I think the best way these things are identified if another pilot comes in an effectively “shops” another, but pilot’s aren’t very good at doing that.’
Other possible explanations for Lubitz’s actions are that he may have stopped taking his medication so it would not be detected in any medical tests or slipped into desperation during a crisis in his relationship.
The investigation was yesterday focused on Lubitz’s medical history and mysterious personal life, which police believe hold the key to why a man given the trust of an airline and its passengers could effectively murder them.
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His mysterious personal life just might have something to do with the male friend with whom he spent a recent vacation, in the US, I think it was. My gaydar went off.
In one of the articles I’ve read, he was already terminated and this was his last flight. If I can find it I’ll post that part.
Whatever the reason/s, I would think the people who’ve been looking at his personal effects know by now.
Germanwings plane crash: Andreas Lubitz ‘split up with girlfriend one day before tragedy’
French media is reporting that the co-pilot broke up with his still-unnamed fiance, whom he was due to marry in 2016, not long before he flew the Airbus into the Alps
The co-pilot who flew a Germanwings plane into the Alps killing everyone on board had broken up with his fiancée just one day earlier, it is being reported.
Andreas Lubitz and his unnamed girlfriend had been together seven years and were due to marry sometime in 2016, according to French media.
But the day before the tragedy that cost the lives of Lubitz and 149 other people, the relationship was ended, the French TV channel ITélé claims.
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