Co-pilot didn’t pile-up Germanwings craft on purpose, father claims

Both a summary and a timing of a initial open coming by a member of Lubitz’s tighten family given a 2015 disaster that claimed 150 lives have been criticised by victims’ families, who will be holding their possess anniversary events to symbol a tragedy.

German prosecutors in Jan sealed their review after final that Lubitz, 27, was suicidal and gimlet solitary shortcoming for a catastrophe.

Now his father, 63-year-old Günter Lubitz, will benefaction his possess commentary to reporters alongside publisher Tim outpost Beveren, whom he called “an internationally recognized aerospace expert”.

“Up to now, everybody has believed a speculation of a co-pilot who was vexed for a prolonged time, who deliberately crashed his craft into a towering in a designed act. We are assured this is false,” a father pronounced in a press release.

The daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung pronounced that a dual group would benefaction a speculation of a CO monoxide trickle in a cabin that infirm a co-pilot, who was alone during a controls during a time of a crash.

‘A really obliged person’

Lubitz comparison told news weekly Die Zeit that a picture of a suicidal loner or impersonal torpedo did not conform with a male he knew.

“Our son was a really obliged person. He had no reason to devise and lift out a suicide, and positively not to take another 149 trusting people with him,” he said.

He indicted investigators of sum negligence, and called for a new probe.

“There were really clearly things that weren’t even looked into, maybe since they didn’t wish to demeanour into them,” he said.

Lubitz insisted he was simply seeking answers “just like a other kin who mislaid a desired one”.

Elmar Giemulla, a counsel representing several of a victims’ families, pronounced this week that Lubitz was waging an “irresponsible” debate that would be slice open aged wounds.

“I suppose that Mr Lubitz wants to foster a speculation that would pardon his son of any responsibility,” Giemulla told a Rheinische Post newspaper.

Prosecutor Christoph Kumpa, whose bureau led a German investigation, also discharged Lubitz’s accusations.

“There are no indications of a means of a pile-up that is not related to counsel — presumably suicidal — behaviour,” he told DPA news agency.

Disbelief

Lubitz’s kin had already hurt a families final year when they placed a intense journal advert in their son’s memory to symbol a initial anniversary of a crash.

Entitled simply “Andreas” and featuring a smiling sketch of a co-pilot, a brief content finished with a summary to their son in confidant letters: “We skip we really most though we are and will sojourn in a hearts”.

They spoke of a year “filled with fear and fear” though did not categorically discuss a 149 other people killed in a crash.

Meanwhile a victims’ families will persevere a anniversary on Friday to remembering their desired ones.

Five hundred people are approaching to transport to a French Alpine city of Digne-les-Bains for an ecumenical church service.

Later in a circuitously encampment of Vernet, where a unclear tellurian stays from a disaster are buried, a commemorative will be inaugurated before some kin continue on a pile-up site.

And in a western German city of Haltern am See, that mislaid 16 students and dual teachers who were returning from an sell programme in Spain, their propagandize will reason a commemorative ceremony.

Its principal, Ulrich Wessel, voiced dishonesty about Lubitz’s designed press conference.

“There are several ways to understanding with grief – maybe also opposite ways to understand reality, or not understand it,” he told open broadcaster SWR.