Germanwings: Andreas Lubitz had ties to terrorism? – The Trade

The German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere , said the information they have now suggests that the copilot Andreas Lubitz plane Germanwings that crashed in the French Alps, killing 150 people, had no links to terrorism.

“With regard to the pilot, until now, after verifying the information in our possession on that person, no terrorist context, “the minister said after confirming the information from the French prosecutor in charge of the case.

Thomas de Maiziere said the same Tuesday the accident both German security authorities and the Lufthansa airline followed the regular protocol available on intelligence files passenger possible links.

“The consultations were negative,” the minister said. “Right now I can not give other information until we have checked everything. ” Also in the French prosecutors have dismissed the terrorist hypothesis.

These statements are given following assume that the passenger plane that crashed in France , Andreas Lubitz 28 was alone in the cockpit when he started the mechanism of decline, probably with “the will to destroy” the device, said prosecutor Brice Robin , which ruled out when a “terrorist attack”.

100% FIT TO FLY
On the other hand, the president of the airline Lufthansa , Carsten Spohr , defended controls and tests for selection of pilots and said the passenger was “100% fit to fly. No buts or nuances”.

“We are confident our drivers. They are and remain the best in the world (…) For me this has happened is a tragic special case,” he said at the same said that while drivers choose their very “careful”.

“No matter how high is the safety and Lufthansa really have high standards of security, but it can not rule out this kind of isolated events, “he acknowledged. “I always prevails rule that safety comes first.”

Carsten Spohr, chairman of the airline Lufthansa. (AFP)

The candidates are both cognitive and aptitude tests. “Also, once a year analysis was performed, but explicit psychological tests are not re-done after training,” he said. He also indicated that pilots Lufthansa receive the same training and are subjected to the same tests that pilots Germanwings, its low-cost subsidiary.

The copilot began his training in 2008, but was interrupted for a few months. “We can not say why,” said Spohr to report it. Was later in the waiting list of the company, “normal”, until he got a job as co-pilot in 2013.

President Lufthansa insisted that know what led the co-pilot to crash the Germanwings Airbus 320 with 150 people on board in the French Alps. “A few hours after it happened only can you speculate on the reasons.”

“This has left us shocked,” he said. “Never in our worst nightmares we could imagine what happened”

Source:. Agencies