A Video Footage has emerged showing the Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a passenger jet carrying 149 people into a mountain, flying a glider.
Andreas Lubitz flying glider 10 years back
The footage shows Andreas Lubitz at the controls of the glider, and is filmed by someone flying behind him.
The source says it was filmed in the last ten years, and appears to be above Montabaur, Lubitz’s home town, some 130 km (81 miles) south of Duesseldorf.
The 27 year-old was a member of the LSC Westerwald flight club based in Montabaur, which held summer flying camps in the region of Sisteron.
Lubitz, suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps last week, was treated for suicidal tendencies years ago before he received his pilot’s license, German prosecutors said on Monday (March 30).
This was the first acknowledgment from German officials that the pilot had suffered bouts of depression, and it is likely to intensify a debate about how airlines screen and monitor their pilots.
Investigators believe Lubitz, serving as co-pilot on a Germanwings flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on March 24th, locked the captain out of the cockpit and steered the Airbus A320 plane into the side of a mountain while passengers screamed in horror. A total of 150 people died in the crash.
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