Opinion
To the editor: Neurologist Robert Sapolsky’s interpretation of mental illness as purely biological leads him to exculpate Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz for killing 149 innocent victims.
April 4, 2015
World & Nation
In this tiny, idyllic town tucked away in southwest Germany, the news hit like a bombshell: Four locals were dead in a plane crash on a French mountain, including a native son who had made good as a pilot, Andreas Lubitz.
March 27, 2015
March 28, 2015
The silence in the cockpit during the last eight minutes of doomed Germanwings Flight 9525 was broken only by the copilot’s even breathing.
March 26, 2015
What are we to make of Andreas Lubitz piloting a Germanwings airplane into the side of a mountain?
April 1, 2015
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz saw several doctors in the month before he deliberately flew a passenger jet into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board, French air accident investigators revealed Sunday.
March 13, 2016
The copilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps feared that he was losing his eyesight, and some of the many doctors he consulted believed he was unfit to fly, a French prosecutor said Thursday.
June 11, 2015
The German copilot thought to have deliberately flown an aircraft into a French mountain, killing all 150 on board, had received treatment for “suicidal tendencies” a few years ago, a spokesman for a German prosecutor said Monday.
March 30, 2015
Mental health experts say that it was aggression — not just depression — that would have driven 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz to deliberately crash a Germanwings airliner into a mountainside, the copilot breathing evenly as passengers screamed and the plane’s frantic captain pounded helplessly on the cockpit door.
April 5, 2015
Additional evidence emerged Saturday to suggest copilot Andreas Lubitz had health issues that should have prevented him from being allowed anywhere near the controls of the Germanwings A320 Airbus that he apparently deliberately flew into a mountain in the southern Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people aboard.