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You are right, the fact is we don't know all the facts and even when all the hard facts are in, there's no way to accurately know what was on his mind. And neither can there be a full-proof preventative measure to these sort of tragic incidents. A very balanced view from Professor Adam Lankford...

You are quite right there. I understand he had a 7-year on-off relationship with his long term girlfriend who subsequently became his fiancee and he was with this particular ex-girlfriend (who was a stewardess with Germanwings) for about 5 months possibly when he was on a cooling curve with...

It is normal to want to believe the best before conceding the worst and your post would have been plausible or would even have made a beautiful defence if the evidence wasn't pointing in the opposite direction. It appears, there was no "shit!" moment in this case, rather it appears to be that of...

You are right that Lubitz's apparent motivation seems to include the need to be known and remembered, and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that he wanted to punish his employers by his act, but a main feature of suicide thoughts or attempts isn't usually how it will affect others. If...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/02/germanwings-crash-black-box_n_6992564.html?icid=maing-grid7|uk|dl1|sec1_lnk3&pLid=341174 I did see that earlier today and whilst it sadly confirms the earlier suspected pre-meditation, it also raises questions as to why a pilot who has been flying...

I saw that and I thought, "Someone's got to have a sense of humour around here" :-).

b. Could be psychopathic rather than sociopathic personality - but I think you've summed it up nicely.

No, you are not, but I am not seeking any clarifications please :-). Massive difference between suicide and murder - I think a lot of us here have made that point pretty clearly; if you find your conversation silly, you are entitled to your own opinion. But thanks for attempting to explain...

No one is disputing that severe problems need addressing to avert disasters and tragedies - and my point was certainly not in any way suggesting that aviation did this to Lubitz - and I think that much is clear from the available evidence. However, my point was on the openness with which an...

I must say your post has been very enlightening. I think it is ignorant and unfair to stigmatise mental health issues. Like a close friend of mine with whom I do some family law case would always say to me on receipt of yet another appalling and soul-destroying psych report "Ain't we all...

That Lubitz may have been confused in the final moments is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility. To say that he may have suffered a mental breakdown of some sort or a serious distortion of reality is also not far fetched given his difficulties. These are all possibilities, but the...

A very balanced view indeed.

I completely agree. Following this weird request of Lubitz that his Captain should go to the toilet and that of Al-Batouti of Egypt Air of 1999 recommending he took over amidst protestation, because it was clearly not his turn or in line with policy, these may become indicators for pilots to...

Here, you have again assisted me to prove my point that these deliberate acts can happen regardless of all the precautions - 'the possibilities are endless.....' may sound like an exaggeration but it does indeed hold true in the examples you have highlighted yourself. In the case of the Egypt...

Thanks a lot WeedWhacker for drawing my attention to the FedEx flight incident which firmly buttresses the point I made earlier that a pilot who is intent on grounding a plane will do so irrespective of whether the Captain remained in the cockpit or goes for a toilet break. Auburn Calloway, was...

I thought Luditz's suggestion to the Captain was creepy too, but I am not a pilot and do not know what the protocol is. But Luditz made it sound quite normal because the Captain did not go to the lavatory in Barcelona! So if only the poor Captain knew what was coming, he would have stayed put in...

Excellent point above. It would require analysis of recordings of such previous flight over that particular area, if he has indeed worked that stretch before. I think he saw his opportunity to a long term goal and he took it. As for understanding depression, I think Deirdre puts is succinctly...

That is exactly my point - suicide is usually done alone, one does not drag others into it. Once it involves more than the subject of the suicide, then it no longer qualifies as suicide - it is murder-suicide and in this case it is clearly mass murder-suicide. He has not only taken the lives of...

This is clearly not about religion or Jihadists! All the evidence so far gathered by the investigators does not support that view at all - if it did, it would have been an immediate line of investigation. Mosque in Bremen? There are mosques everywhere! And Lubitz, as far as I know, trained to...

I completely agree with that analysis! That is apparent.