Andreas Lubitz
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Oct 22, 2026
James BackhouseHOST
Actually, it's a lot better to identify that at that point in time than it is following a horrific accident.
James BackhouseHOST
And I suppose one of the reasons it's moved up the agenda is because of the cases like the Andreas Lubitz case.
James BackhouseHOST
He was the pilot who deliberately crashed a plane because he was suffering from, I think, a psychosis or something.
James BackhouseHOST
A couple of the bin lorry crash in Scotland, which is well known, was related to the driver's health and so on.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
Investigators found that the pilot had serious mental health issues.
Andrew TangelCORRESPONDENT
This pilot, Andreas Lubitz, he locked the captain out of the cockpit during a bathroom break and programmed the plane's computers to descend, essentially, into the French Alps.
Andrew TangelCORRESPONDENT
And that fortified cockpit door, post 9/11 innovation, prevented anyone from stopping him, and in the end, 150 people died in this disaster.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
It wasn't until investigators looked into the pilot's background that they found a history of severe depression and suicidal ideation.
MarkHOST
But for me, this actually smacks of another mass murder that I covered a couple of years ago in an episode entitled Mass Murder in the Skies, which told the story of Germanwings Flight 9525, which took off from Barcelona Airport bound for Dusseldorf with 144 passengers on board, as well as four crew and two pilots.
MarkHOST
Half an hour into that flight, the captain left the cockpit to go to the bathroom, leaving his co-pilot, First Officer Andreas Lubitz, alone.
MarkHOST
He proceeded to lock the cockpit door from the inside before beginning a minutes-long descent into the French Alps, killing everyone on board.
MarkHOST
And I just saw some similarities between this and the actions of Stephen Paddock.
speaker_2GUEST
... over the first 20 minutes of the tape.
speaker_2GUEST
The captain, Patrick Sönderheimer, and First Officer Andreas Lubitz were just, like, chatting normally.
speaker_2GUEST
Many described it as even playfully.
speaker_2GUEST
Just kind of like shooting the shit-
speaker_2GUEST
So this is, like, unambiguous.
Tyler ParkerHOST
Yeah.
speaker_2GUEST
Like, the first officer, Andreas Lubitz, purposely crashed the plane, and it would emerge as investigators looked at this.
speaker_2GUEST
They knew really quickly, like, he had done this.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The captain again screams, open the damn door.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Two minutes before impact, the paper reports Lubitz can be heard breathing.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The plane now only 13,000 feet from the ground.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1040 a.m., investigators believe they hear the plane's right wing scrape a mountaintop, then screams once more from the 149 on board.
speaker_9NARRATOR
The captain again screams, open the damn door.
speaker_9NARRATOR
Two minutes before impact, the paper reports, Lubitz can be heard breathing, the plane now only 13,000 feet from the ground.
speaker_9NARRATOR
10.40 a.m., investigators believe they hear the plane's right wing scrape a mountaintop, then screams once more from the 149 on board.
SeanHOST
So how would they have gotten that cabin door open? Because we know post 9-11, they're all reinforced like bunkers.
AndyPANELIST
Uh, on a day, yeah.
AndyPANELIST
Let's hope this isn't a Lubitz case again, where the warning signs were all there for a very long time beforehand and nobody did anything about them.
AndyPANELIST
Um, but yeah, it's, it's just frightening.
Neville BoundsHOST
That's, that's the, uh, that's the Eurowings, uh, event, wasn't it?
Jimmy HintonHOST
I remember very clearly this one, and I've watched, uh, short documentaries on this.
Jimmy HintonHOST
Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit during a flight from Barcelona to, uh, back to Germany, Düsseldorf, and intentionally crashed the Airbus A320 into the French Alps, resulting in 150 fatalities.
Jimmy HintonHOST
If I remember right, the pilot had gone to the restroom, and while he was out, the co-pilot locked him out and intentionally flew it into the French Alps.
Jimmy HintonHOST
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 in 2014.
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