re: Are you suspicious of the mental health situation with the Germanwings co-pilot?

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he used to be a stewardess and they thought he was gay.

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He flew a plane into the side of a mountain with a 150 ppl on board. You think he was right in the head?

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You wanting him to be a mooooslim aren't you? That makes if funner and shite.

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He converted to Islam so I guess it is funnier and shite.......Dumbass

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Google it. It was all over the news

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The Germanwings Co-pilot’s Non-Existent ‘Muslim Conversion’
1:00 PM, MAR 28, 2015 • BY JOHN ROSENTHAL

Blogs and social media has been abuzz with talk of a supposed “German news report” indicating that Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of Germanwings flight 9525, was a Muslim convert. In fact, there is no such report. The rumor that Lubitz converted to Islam got started on the German site Politically Incorrect. In the American blogosphere, Politically Incorrect is being cited as a “German news website.” It is not a news site, however, but rather is an overtly anti-Islamic blog/forum. The confusion apparently arose from the site’s url: www.pi-news.net.

Given the orientation of the site and reports that Germanwings 9525 was intentionally crashed by the co-pilot, it is hardly surprising that commentators on Politically Incorrect would speculate about whether Lubitz was a Muslim. Reference was made in particular to a blog post by a site regular named Michael Mannheimer. Mannheimer’s post contains no evidence that Lubitz was a Muslim convert, but just more speculation. Mannheimer’s conjecture is based on such apparently suspicious details as the fact that Lubitz did flight training in Bremen and Bremen is also home to a mosque known for its radicalism. In fairness to Politically Incorrect, it should be noted that several commentators on the site have themselves rejected the speculations in Mannheimer’s post as unfounded, including one who remarked that he “must have been very drunk” when he wrote it.


posts have also made reference to newly minted Facebook pages celebrating Lubitz in an Islamist vein. But of obviously greater relevance is Lubitz’s own Facebook page. That page has been taken down, but a Google cache of the entry page (i.e. without timeline entries) is still available here. It contains no trace of any interest in Islam. It does, however, feature the now famous photo of Lubitz posing in front of the Golden State Bridge, as well as a banner photo of New York’s Times Square. Lubitz is known to have done training and travelled in the United States, and it is clear from his Facebook page that he was an admirer of the country. This hardly fits the standard profile of an Islamist – no more so than Lubitz’s evident enthusiasm for techno musicians like the French DJ/producer David Guetta.

We will undoubtedly learn more about Lubitz’s life in the days and weeks to come. But the supposed “German news report” does not exist and for the moment, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that he was a Muslim convert.

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He was already mentally unstable, then the stress of pilot training coupled with the stress of dealing with his repressed homosexuality pushed him over the edge. His ex-girlfriend said he was a nut, his co workers had teased him for years for being gay, he had a breakdown and had to take 6 months off, he was so bad off that doctors told him not to go to work, it was to the point that he had developed psychosomatic vision problems

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Are you suspicious of the mental health situation with the Germanwings co-pilot?

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