{"id":8231,"date":"2015-03-26T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2015-03-26T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:58:06","slug":"who-is-andreas-lubitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/26\/who-is-andreas-lubitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Andreas Lubitz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few links to places addressing this important question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2015\/03\/andreas-lubitz-copilot-germanwings-flight-4u9525-plane-crash-french-alps\/\">Andreas Lubitz: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lubitz, 28, was a German national living in Montabaur, Germany. Montabaur lies in the famous Rhineland region of Germany, about halfway between Cologne and Frankfurt. The Telegraph reports he lived there with his parents and also had an apartment in Dusseldorf.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA lists \u201cAm Spiessweiher 8, Montabaur, Germany\u201d as Lubitz\u2019s address. Google Street View is not available for Lubitz\u2019s home, but the Google Map below shows that he lived in a suburban area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/who-andreas-lubitz-everything-you-5404476\">Who is Andreas Lubitz? Everything we know so far about Germanwings co-pilot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full name: Andreas Guenter Lubitz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/who-was-andreas-lubitz-germanwings-co-pilot-who-murdered-150-innocent-passengers-deliberate-alps-1493685\">Who was Andreas Lubitz? Germanwings co-pilot who &#8216;intentionally killed&#8217; 150 passengers in deliberate Alps crash<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>German media reports he had 630 flight hours and joined budget airline Germanwings straight out of Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen in September 2013. Authorities have not confirmed if he had any experience as a professional pilot prior to that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/andreas-lubitz-who-is-germanwings-copilot-who-intentionally-set-plane-on-descent-10135639.html\">Andreas Lubitz: Who is Germanwings co-pilot who &#8216;locked out captain and crashed flight 9525 into French Alps&#8217;?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lubitz is that the 28-year-old was from Montabaur, a town in the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The LSC club, where he was a member, posted a death notice on their website naming him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/2015\/03\/26\/who-was-andreas-lubitz-a-young-co-pilot-who-loved-flying-not-a-terrorist.html\">Andreas Lubitz a young co-pilot loved flying, no terrorist links<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lubitz scored 100 per cent in his psychological testing to become a professional pilot, Carsten Spohr, an official with the Germanwings parent company Lufthansa said on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u201cThere wasn\u2019t the least doubt in his capability,\u201d Spohr said at at press conference.<br \/>\nLubitz started his training in 2008, which was interrupted for several months for an unspecified reason, Spohr said.<br \/>\n\u201cI can\u2019t say more about the reasons for his absence,\u201d Lubitz said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few links to places addressing this important question: Andreas Lubitz: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Lubitz, 28, was a German national living in Montabaur, Germany. Montabaur lies in the famous Rhineland region of Germany, about halfway between Cologne and Frankfurt. The Telegraph reports he lived there with his parents and also had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/26\/who-is-andreas-lubitz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who Is Andreas Lubitz?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Andreas-Lubitz-germanwingsjpg.jpg?fit=545%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-28L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}