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The Horrific Aviation Disaster of Flight 9525
The story of Andreas Labitz, a copilot who intentionally killed 150 people.
When you buy a plane ticket, you trust the people who fly the plane. But we know nothing about them and their state of mind.
According to the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, Andreas Lubitz, 27, the co-pilot of flight 9525 Germanwings Airbus A 320, was completely deranged. They say he planned the deadly crash on March 24, 2015, that killed all 150 people on board.
Officials say the co-pilot, Lubitz was on a suicide mission. And he wanted to take as many people as he could with him.
144 passengers.
Six crew members.
Sixteen children from the same school.
Throughout history, serial killers have used guns, knives, their hands, poison, and even cars to kill their victims.
Lubitz used an airplane.
The belief is that it was a premeditated murder.
On March 24, 2015, the airbus flew in from Barcelona to Dusseldorf and, hours later, crashed into a French Alps mountains.
