Self proclaimed skydevil Andreas Lubitz is now suspected of having “spiked” his senior co-pilot’s java with a diuretic so he’d need to urgently leave the cockpit to urinate.
If so, it would have guaranteed the suicidal Germanwings kamikaze a narrow window of opportunity to lock out the only other person on board who could stop him from dive-bombing the plane into the Alps.
All 150 passengers, including Andreas Lubitz himself, were instantly killed in the fiery crash. Black boxes recovered from the enormous debris field showed the locke- out pilot desperately trying to gain reentry, even using an ax on the cockpit’s impenetrable door, to no avail.
Coffee itself is a mild diuretic, but investigators say that, just days before the “deliberate” downing of the Lufthansa Airbus 320, the 27-year-old alleged mass murderer also researched more potent substances which could be added to a beverage without detection.
A forensic analysis of Lubitz’s home computer revealed he additionally searched for information on committing suicide, as well as for data about the high-security machinations of flight cabin doors and pilot-override procedures.
Prior to this, and apparently with Lufthansa’s knowledge, Lubitz was treated numerous times for severe depression amid fears he might harm himself, and with at least one doctor on several occasions declaring him “unfit” to be a pilot.
Indeed, the morning before he crashed his doomed passengers into the Alpine mountainside, skydevil Andreas Lubitz is said to have been excused from flight duties, purportedly for those very same medical concerns.
And yet he was still able to fly on that fateful day, regardless.
