Germanwings pilot said to have been suicidal, purposely crashed plane

Reports state that Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz was breathing, steady and calm before Flight 9525 went down and crashed.

His breathing was the only sound coming from within the cockpit, while outside his commanding pilot could be heard banging on the cockpit door, pleading that Lubitz open it.

The final sounds heard on the black box recording were the screams of some 150 passengers, seconds before the plane slammed into a mountainside in the French Alps.

The black box evidence suggests Lubitz ran the plane to the ground in an act of suicide come mass homicide.

Data from the plane’s transponder also points to the suggestion that the plane was crashed on purpose as the autopilot had been manually reset to take the lane from 38,000 feet to 96 feet, the lowest possible setting.

What hasn’t been looked into thoroughly is whether Lubitz had suffered something more along the lines of a stroke than depression – which might explain the heavy breathing coming from within the inside of the cockpit but a lack of physical response.

Investigators are currently looking through his apartment and personal belongings to see if they can find other clues.

Meanwhile, Lubitz, 27, has had his Facebook page reinstated, now under the dubious category of ‘Community’.

The page does not reveal much about Lubitz apart from the fact that he “liked” Germanwings – the airline he flew – and Lufthansa, its parent company, at whose training school he attended.

Another Facebook page has also appeared online, this one headlined ‘Remembering Andreas Lubitz’.  Antonino Tati