The public prosecutor in Düsseldorf announced on Friday thatAndreas Lubitz, the 27-year-old co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight, “hid” an illness from his employers and his colleagues. The nature of that illness, however, has not been specified.
Searches carried out by the police in the young man’s Düsseldorf apartment have been key to the conclusions. The authorities did not locate either a suicide note or any political or religious material that could suggest terrorist intentions behind his actions, which saw the pilot locked out of the cockpit and the plane set to smash into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. Most of the passengers were from Spain and Germany.
What has been located are medical documents that reveal he was receiving treatment, and that he had been given medical leave for the day of the accident. According to the public prosecutor, the police found that medical note torn into pieces.
The German prosecutor’s statement did not mention the possibility of a mental illness, and explained that it would take several days to analyze the information found in the searches. When the prosecutor has conclusive proof, the statement said, the information would be communicated to the families of the victims and to the public.
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VOCABULARY:
-Doomed: desafortunado
-Cockpit: cabina
This news has affected me and a lot of people too, precisely Spanish and German families.
ReplyDeleteIt is very sad to know that 150 people died of an accident caused by a copilot but I think It is very difficult to know what are the real causes. But in spite of this accident, I think that we should have in mind many others accidents and wars where million people die.