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Germanwings co-pilot nicknamed 'Tomato Andy' tore up sick note and hid secret illness
Daily Mail ^ | 27 March 2015

Posted on 03/27/2015 5:48:12 AM PDT by KeyLargo

MailOnline US Friday, Mar 27th 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Germanwings co-pilot nicknamed 'Tomato Andy' tore up sick note on the day he crashed jet and hid secret illness from the company, prosecutor reveals

Pilot Andreas Lubitz might have been suffering a 'personal crisis' after failed relationship, it was claimed last night He had suffered from depression and 'burnout' and was once deemed 'unfliable' but was later passed as fit to fly Head of Lufthansa admitted the 28-year-old had slipped through the 'safety net' - with devastating consequences Friends said he was teased and called 'Tomato Andy' because he worked as a flight steward before qualifying German detectives yesterday carried out a four-hour search of his Dusseldorf flat and searched his family home Police said to have found evidence of mental illness, but no suicide note at flat he is said to share with girlfriend

By Allan Hall and Stephanie Linning and Richard Spillett for MailOnline and David Williams and Ray Massey and Tom Kelly In Dusseldorf For The Daily Mail

Updated: 07:39 EST, 27 March 2015

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4u9525; airbus; airline; andreaslubitz; crash; depression; flying; france; gay; german; germanwings; germany; homosexualagenda; jihad; lubitz; lufthansa; mental; pilot; suicide; tomatoandy
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'Tomato Andy' had been treated for depression.
1 posted on 03/27/2015 5:48:12 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Yet another mass murder by a mentally ill person.


2 posted on 03/27/2015 5:49:53 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: KeyLargo
What about our national pilot?


3 posted on 03/27/2015 5:50:57 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: AppyPappy

Liberal logic would dictate a call for banning commercial airlines now...


4 posted on 03/27/2015 5:51:30 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
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To: KeyLargo

Does Tomato Andy refer to political ideology is the same way as German soldiers in WW-I called Hitler Adi the Red?


5 posted on 03/27/2015 5:53:20 AM PDT by fso301
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To: AppyPappy
'Tomato Andy'
6 posted on 03/27/2015 5:54:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Calling him mocking names like Tomato Andy qualifies as bullying. That will be where the blame heads.


7 posted on 03/27/2015 5:57:16 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Exactly. Why does anyone need an Airbus?


8 posted on 03/27/2015 5:57:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: KeyLargo

He couldn’t be happy with just flipping switches and pushing buttons... Nooooooooo.


10 posted on 03/27/2015 5:57:47 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Hotlanta Mike

10 day waiting period for planes now.


11 posted on 03/27/2015 5:58:34 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Reports in German media suggested that Lubitz had suffered from depression in the past, and that his employer would have been aware of his history.

Germany’s Bild newspaper reported on Friday that Lubitz had suffered from depression during a period when he broke off his training six years ago. It said he spent over a year in psychiatric treatment.

Lufthansa, parent company of Germanwings, has acknowledged that Lubitz had broken off his training in 2009 but says there was nothing in the pilot’s background to suggest he was a risk.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/us-france-crash-idUSKBN0MN11N20150327


12 posted on 03/27/2015 5:59:09 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Yeah, and last night on Free Republic there was a German source was he had been a Muslim convert while in flight school in Bremen Germany. Now it THAT is the truth I doubt we will ever know. Can you imagine the impact of travel if people worldwide wondered if thier flight crew were jihadists bent on death spirals into paradise?
Freegards
LEX


14 posted on 03/27/2015 6:01:05 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Well ... I’m not flying ... LOL ...


15 posted on 03/27/2015 6:01:38 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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“Andreas Lubitz was deemed “unsuitable for flight duties” for a period of time during his training with Lufthansa and was receiving regular treatment for depression, sources have claimed, as investigators focus their inquiry on his personal life and background.

The German tabloid Bild quoted sources as claiming Lubitz received psychiatric treatment for one and a half years while in flight school, and was forced to repeat some classes because of a struggle with depression.

It said he had received “specific and regular medical treatment” ever since he suffered a “serious depressive episode” in 2009.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/andreas-lubitiz-germanwings-copilot-deemed-unsuitable-for-flight-duties-during-lufthansa-flight-school-training-10137941.html


16 posted on 03/27/2015 6:01:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Girlfriend. That addresses one concern I’ve heard voiced.


17 posted on 03/27/2015 6:03:17 AM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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Excuse me, but what a pussy! Did he think that real pilots would respect him for being a flight attendant?

Mommy, they’re calling me Tomato Andy! They’re calling me Tomato Andy. What a jagoff! FUTA!


18 posted on 03/27/2015 6:03:59 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: AppyPappy
Yet another mass murder by a mentally ill person.

Mentally ill MUSLIM Person

19 posted on 03/27/2015 6:04:51 AM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Eureka ! Put a place marker on your post. Bullying !

No doubt, totally justifiable action crashing a airplane if bullying was involved !

I can see the talking heads now, lamenting not the victims, but the bullied Tomato Andy.

20 posted on 03/27/2015 6:06:29 AM PDT by csvset
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