Andreas Lubitz, 28, from the town of Montabaur in Rhineland-Palatinate, has been named as the co-pilot of
Germanwings flight 4U9525 who appears to have deliberately crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
While the captain and crew banged on the cockpit door during the descent, Lubitz was said to have been breathing normally.
A first officer, Lubitz had been flying for Germanwings since
September 2013 after being trained with the airline’s parent company,
Lufthansa, in Bremen. He had clocked up 630 hours in the air.
The Lufthansa chief executive, Carsten Spohr, said Lubitz had
passed all the psychological tests required for training and undergone
regular physical examinations.
He told a press conference on Thursday that Lubitz had started
training in 2008 - first working as a flight attendant - and there was
nothing unusual in the results of his training, but acknowledged there
had been a gap without saying what had caused it.
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