Co-Pilot’s Ex-lady friend Tells of his Psychiatric issues; massive ‘Gesture’ Plan

The co-pilot suspected of intentionally crashing an airliner, killing 150 humans, had advised his girlfriend he changed into making plans a superb gesture so “anyone will know my call,” a German every day stated on Saturday.

The Bild newspaper posted an interview with a girl who stated she had had a relationship in 2014 with Andreas Lubitz, the person French prosecutors consider locked himself by myself inside the cockpit of the Germanwings Airbus on Tuesday and prompt it into the French Alps, killing all on board.

“after I heard about the crash, I remembered a sentence… he stated: ‘one day I’ll do something with a view to alternate the device, after which each person will recognize my name and recall it’,” stated the girl, a flight attendant whom the paper gave the pseudonym of Maria W.

“I didn’t know what he intended through that on the time, but now it’s obvious,” she stated. “He did it because he found out that, due to his health troubles, his huge dream of working at Lufthansa, of a having job as a pilot, and as a pilot on lengthy-distance flights, become almost not possible.”

“He by no means talked an awful lot about his illness, simplest that he was in psychiatric treatment,” she told the paper, adding they eventually broke up due to the fact she become frightened of him.

“He might unexpectedly freak out in conversations and yell at me,” she recalled. “At night he might wake up screaming ‘we're crashing’ because he had nightmares. He could be good at hiding what became definitely taking place inner him.”

The woman additionally instructed Bild: “We usually talked a lot about paintings after which he became a exclusive person. He have become disenchanted approximately the situations we worked below: too little cash, fear of dropping the settlement, an excessive amount of stress.”

A Lufthansa spokesman declined to remark. The organization and its low-price subsidiary Germanwings took out complete-web page commercials in primary German and French newspapers on Saturday, expressing “deepest mourning.”

Lufthansa and Germanwings provided condolences to the friends and households of the passengers and crew and thanked the lots of people in France, Spain and Germany it said had helped because the crash.

German officials stated there could be a ceremony on April 17 in Cologne Cathedral attended through German Chancellor Angela Merkel and senior officers from other nations which include France and Spain.

additionally on Saturday, family of the Germanwings captain whom Lubitz locked out of the cockpit before the crash visited a memorial to the sufferers inside the French Alps, while a special mass turned into held at the small cathedral in close by Digne-les-Bains.

‘Overstress signs’

German government stated on Friday that they had determined torn-up ill notes displaying the co-pilot had been tormented by an contamination that should have grounded him at the day of the tragedy. Germanwings, the price range airline of the flag service Lufthansa, has stated he did now not publish a sick notice at the time.

German newspaper Welt am Sonntag quoted a senior investigator as pronouncing the 27-12 months-antique “was treated through numerous neurologists and psychiatrists,” including that some of medicinal drugs have been determined in his Duesseldorf condominium.

Police additionally discovered non-public notes that confirmed Lubitz suffered from “extreme subjective overstress signs,” he added.

The big apple times on Saturday quoted officials as pronouncing Lubitz had additionally sought remedy for vision issues that could have jeopardized his capability to paintings as a pilot.

German kingdom prosecutors and police spokesmen declined to comment on the media reviews, adding there could be no professional statements on the case before Monday.

Investigators have retrieved cockpit voice recordings from one of the plane’s “black bins,” which they say show that Lubitz locked himself on my own inside the cockpit, as his fellow pilot desperately attempted to interrupt in, and prompted the airliner to crash.

a major French investigator said on Saturday it turned into too early to rule out different factors for the crash.

“there is obviously a state of affairs this is widely recognized to the media and which we're focusing on,” French investigator general Jean-Pierre Michel instructed French media.

“however we have no proper today to rule out different hypotheses, which includes the mechanical hypotheses, as long as we haven’t proved that the aircraft had no (mechanical) hassle,” he added, mentioning that a 2nd black container containing flight data had no longer been determined but.