By Wednesday night, French investigators had determined that the flight's co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, had locked the captain out of the cockpit just after the plane hit cruising altitude. Lubitz then allegedly disabled the flight's
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, which crashed into the Alps en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf on Tuesday, has been identified as Andreas Lubitz, a German who grew up in the Rhineland town of Montabaur. On Thursday, a French prosecutor
According to Marseilles public prosecutor Brice Robin, Germanwings first pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed flight 4U 9525 into the Alps in Southern France Tuesday morning. Lubitz, 28, is from Montabaur, Germany.
(CNN) — Police searched Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's apartment in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Thursday, the city's police spokesman said in televised comments. A team of five investigators went
Lubitz lived with his parents in his hometown, and kept an apartment in Dusseldorf, according to the German news agency DPA. He got his glider pilot's license as a teenager, and attended the demanding preparatory program at his town's Mons-Tabor High