French Government Formally Asks FBI To Assist In Investigation of Germanwings Flight 9525 Co-Pilot

[big_dog]

Source: CNN/NBC News WPTZ.com

URGENT--The French government has formally asked the FBI to assist in an investigation of the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 and of the plane's crash in France on Tuesday, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

Read more: http://www.wptz.com/national/urgent-germanwings-fbi/32025584

[mnhtnbb]

1. Are there more of these young pilots waiting for the chance

to fly a plane into a mountain? Ocean? Buildings?

[onenote]

12. how does age factor into it?

The pilot of Egypt Flight 990 that is thought to have deliberately crashed his plane was 59 years old with over 12,000 hours of flight time.

[mnhtnbb]

14. And with personal revenge as a motive.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/16/duncancampbell


So far, everyone is at a loss to figure out what in this guy's life would have driven him to do such a thing.

[mainer]

2. This puzzles me. Don't the French and Germans feel they can handle this?

Wouldn't they turn to Europol first?

[840high]

3. Good question.

[Maedhros]

4. I, also, find this eyebrow-raising.

French authorities should be more than capable of investigating this incident. Very strange that they should ask the FBI for assistance.

[hlthe2b]

6. No it isn't. See my post # 5

[Maedhros]

9. Good point. [n/t]

[HockeyMom]

7. Did he have ties to the US?

That FB picture showed him sitting near the Golden Gate Bridge. Had his previous flights included Transatlantic? Sounds like they might know something that has not be put out into the media.

Medical privacy rights. Does Germany have the equivalent of HIPPA? If so, would that end with death and a criminal investigation? My question on this applies to why he interrupted his Lufthansa training for months? Medical reasons?

[hlthe2b]

5. Because he trained in ARIZONA... For gawd's sakes, the FBI does not have the miraculously superior

reputation worldwide that some here would suggest and NO, the French and Germans are not in desperate need of competent investigative assistance. It is only natural that they would ask for assistance in investigating the co-pilot's time in the US.

[HockeyMom]

8. So his training leave was in Arizona?

Maybe that is why the FBI is getting involved? Seeing doctors in Arizona? Tracking his time spent in the US?

[hlthe2b]

10. His training was in AZ

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/03/26/germanwings-killer-copilot-what-we-know.html
Here is what’s known so far about the Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot accused of murdering 149 people.

His name is Andreas Lubitz, age 28, from Montabaur, near Frankfurt. Lubitz got his pilot’s license as a teenager, according to members of his local flying club. In 2008, he was accepted into Lufthansa’s pilot-training program. Lubitz interrupted his training for 11 months for unknown reasons but then was readmitted after passing several tests, including a psychological assessment, said Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr. During that time, Lubitz trained at a Lufthansa center in Goodyear, Arizona. Since graduating in 2013, Lubitz logged 630 hours of flight time.

“He was happy he had the job with Germanwings and he was doing well,” club member Peter Ruecker told the AP. “He was very happy. He gave off a good feeling.”

A mother of Lubitz’s classmate told a different story to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

“Apparently, he had a burnout, depression,” the woman said, adding that Lubitz confided in her daughter before Christmas.

Dutch journalist Victor Schildkamp with Algemeen Dagbland tweeted that a friend of Lubitz said the co-pilot planned to get married next year.

Lubitz was heard breathing normally through the entire descent on flight voice recordings, according to French prosecutor Brice Robin. Lubitz did not respond to any radio messages from air-traffic control, nor did he respond to the pilot’s demands to open the locked cockpit door, Robin said.

Lubitz’s motive is unknown. The French said they see no connection to terrorism.
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[mainer]

13. OK, that explains the FBI involvement.

Now it makes sense. The headline made it sound like the French felt inadequate.

[freshwest]

18. IDK, several countries ask the US to do such tbings. n/t

[hatrack]

19. And vice-versa

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[freshwest]

22. Likely because of treaties like the UKUSA.

There is a lot of intelligence to be shared there, and as members of the UN and NATO, this is of strategic importance to more than one country.

Was wondering in my comment if there was some expertise by the FBI employed. Information will be shared and evaluated to determine why this happened, and how to prevent it again.

RIP to all those on the plane, is the correct term. But at times I find it hard to believe those who have been murdered (if some of the speculation is correct) could RIP anyway. JMHO.

[treestar]

23. Its funny how upset some people are that the US's FBI might

be considered to have value that other countries would want their help.

[freshwest]

24. Ooh, can't have that now, can we, treestar?

[Sunlei]

11. They have the best tools to check the persons actions over the past several months.

What I haven't read yet is if this co-pilot was on any medications like antidepressants.

[cosmicone]

15. Was he attending any houses of worship

or changed his religion?

[LeftyMom]

20. Oh great, you found a new thing you can blame on Muslims somehow.

We all know that's what you're implying, based on your previous body of work.

[cosmicone]

21. What it the world would make you think that?

::::: shocked ::::::::

[brentspeak]

16. Lufthansa agrees that Lubitz deliberately crashed plane

So there's really no question about it, and it took about an hour for them to acknowledge it.

Wish EgyptAir and the Egyptian govt would finally admit that it was co-pilot Gameel Al-Batouti who purposefully crashed EgyptAir 990.

[father founding]

17. WTF ?

FBI Conclusion :


The cause was a spark in the fuel tank.