The thought that a Germanwings pilot deliberately crashed a commercial plane into the Alps killing himself and 149 others is truly harrowing.
French aviation investigators related on Thursday, two days after the March 24 crash, that Andreas Lubitz, the German co-pilot of Flight 9525, intentionally locked the captain out of the cockpit and flew the craft into the mountains, and they have no idea why.
In the coming days, more details may become clear and his motives and certainly there will be new measures taken to prevent similar tragedies in the future.
Murder-suicide is also one of the theories on the table for the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on March 8, 2014. The flight vanished from air traffic control radar and no trace of it has ever been found since. It’s supposed it crashed and sank into the vast Southern Indian Ocean.
