Posted on 03/26/2015 12:24:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Lubitz started his training with the organization in 2008 and at one point worked as a flight attendant, the airline's Chief Executive Carsten Spohr confirmed Thursday.
While Lubitz had interrupted his training at some point for several months — the airline would not specify why — Spohr said that was not unusual and that the young German was re-evaluated before his training resumed. He passed all his tests.
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Sightseeing in Yemen, perhaps?
Either a Muslim sympathizer, got jilted by a “lover” boy or girl, or is really big debt.
Maybe he passed out? Heart attack?
So he worked for the airline for 18 months and accrued only 630 flight hours? Maybe I’m wrong but that doesn’t seem like much flying time. That’s less than 10 hours a week. I realize that pilots have workload restrictions but still that doesn’t sound like a lot of cockpit time. Maybe he was a problem employee.
I wonder if he was a closet gay....
Does anybody know if a flight manifest with names of the German citizens has been released?
he deliberately locked the other pilot out....he was awake and functioning to do that...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/26/us-france-crash-idUSKBN0MK2U020150326
To lock out the pilot, he was required to toggle a switch every 5 minutes to overide the door keypad.
Even if he was suicidal, it’s hard to see why he would want to take 150 people with him, unless he was either a terrorist or had severe mental problems. And it’s hard to see how someone who had severe mental problems—not just small ones he could keep hidden—would be allowed to become a pilot.
...worked as a flight attendant..
Sheppie Smith just asked if it were possible that the pilot drugged the co-pilot before he stepped out of the cockpit.
I’m glad I got rid of Fox News.
Interesting point. He did spend several months or possibly more in the US (in Arizona, I believe) qualifying for some other certificate, so perhaps he came and went on his job. That is, he may have had long education leaves that would have meant he accumulated fewer flying hours.
BTW, in the US, he learned to fly gliders and other very simple aircraft. Don’t know if this is relevant, but essentially he did a glide into the mountainside.
Now he’s got a building collapse in NYC to blather about.
“Maybe he passed out? Heart attack?”
The odds if a 28 year old co-pilot having a heart attack at the exact moment his pilot is sitting on the toilet are astronomical.
He WILLFULLY engaged the ‘lock’ lever (located in between the pilot’s seats) for the cockpit door, the entire time of the aircraft’s descent.
Maybe he got woozy and passed out an accidently leaned on that switch?
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