Germanwings crash - Scary element

THE picture of a young man, believed to be 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz, sitting calmly beside San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is a classic image of the proverbial ‘boy next door’.

Germanwings crash - Scary element

Yet, in reality he was a mass murderer, according to the lead investigator at the search site in the French Alps where he crashed an Airbus killing all on board.

The explanation for the mystery crash, gleaned from the black box recorder, is that Lubitz “voluntarily” initiated the descent of the plane and refused to open the door to the pilot who was outside the cockpit.

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