Killer Pilot Planned Act To Be Remembered In History, Ex-girlfriend Says

The pilot who deliberately crashed the Germanwings plane vowed to ‘do something’ history would remember him by, his ex-girlfriend has revealed. Andreas Lubitz, 27, had hidden a sick note declaring him unfit to work on the day of the disaster before boarding the Dusseldorf-bound Airbus A320 and piloting it into a mountain in the southern French Alps. His ex-girlfriend has now also told of how he would wake up in the night during nightmares screaming: ‘We’re going down,’ metro.co.uk reports.

According to German newspaper Bild, Lubitz told her last year: ‘One day I will do something that will change the whole system, and then all will know my name and remember it.

The 26-year-old woman, known as Mary W, added: ‘I never knew what he meant, but now it makes sense.’

And the stewardess said the pilot, who took a break in his training due to reported ‘burnout-syndrome’, had suffered nightmares and his behaviour had scared her.

She told the paper: ‘At night, he woke up and screamed: “We’re going down!”, because he had nightmares. He knew how to hide from other people what was really going on inside. The comments came as some families of the 149 victims, including three Britons, gathered for a church service.

Germanwings parent company Lufthansa said it would offer immediate aid of up to 50,000 euros (£36,500) per passenger to relatives of those who died in the crash. The extent of Lubitz’s health problems became apparent after German prosecutors looking at his medical history found the torn-up sick note. It was among items discovered when police searched his Dusseldorf apartment.

Germanwings confirmed the sick note was not submitted to the company. The prosecutors also said the search found no suicide note or confession, ‘nor was there any evidence of a political or religious background to what happened’. Culled From; metro.co.uk