Airbus A320 Suicide or Solution
Suicides of Pilots (First Part)
Airbus-A320
For God’s sake open this bloody door!.Now there are no more doubts: Andreas Lubitz committed suicide. To say so are the media all over the world that report the pilot’s last words while trying vainly to convince Lubitz to open the door of the cockpit. Always from the registrations of the black box, we can hear the copilot’s breath which is always regular till the crash of the Airbus A 320 against the mountains, therefore we can also exclude a sudden illness.
black box
No doubt even about the causes which drove Andreas Lubitz to the suicide: he suffered from depression and had regular tests by the University Hospital of Dusseldorf and also by a private psychiatrist from Rhineland. Lubitz’s psychiatric problems went back in time: in 2008, when he was 21, he was compelled to leave the school for pilots of Lufthansa for an important episode of depression.
Andreas Lubitz
He had interrupted the course for six months, but the psychiatric treatment had lasted one year and a half.When he had been able to start the courses again pharmacological treatments had regularly continued. On his curriculum there was an acronym SIC meaning he can fly but he must undergo regular checkups; how efficacious these checkups should be it’s easy to guess. It seems Lubitz should have also some sight troubles, we don’t know whether they had an organic or psychosomatic origin, but certainly such sight deficiencies made depression worse. The link between suicide and depression, particularly in this case, leads us to the theses supported in the chapter “Le Mal de Vivre ” in the book “The Intelligent Virus” according to which, the one of suicides is, at present, a real epidemic based on a genetic feedback or negative retroaction mechanism mediated by depression.
After looking for some analogies it’s difficult to place the case of the airbus 320 among the categories of suicides quoted in the above-mentioned chapter of “The Intelligent Virus“. At first we could think of placing the episode among the so-called extended suicides, but it isn’t like that because the people the suicide eliminates, besides himself, are mostly members of his family or however persons somehow linked to him: therefore considering Andreas Lubitz’s case as an extended suicide isn’t right. It’s necessary to create a new category, the one of plane suicides, but for this definition we have to explain what induced Lubitz to kill 149 persons, besides himself.
On analyzing the copilot’s private life they discovered an ex fiancée whose report adds very significant elements to understand the reasons that should have induced Andreas to the tragic act. After remembering the sudden changes in mood the copilot underwent when talking of his job, his ex fiancée would have told about a phrase the man would have said to her “One day I’ll do something tha will completely change the system and everybody will know my name and will remember it”.
Lubitzs-girl-friend
At this point it seems everything is clear and therefore what Lubitz did, though induced by depression, had as a target to reveal the fallacious system managing the pilots of civil aviation: exhausting work schedules, psychologic pressures, scanty wages, inefficient checkups. Yet in the second chapter “Le Mal de Vivre” of “The Intelligent Virus” we saw more than once how, even though suicide is a consequence of the depression of genetic origin mediated through the genetic feedback or negative retroaction mechanism, a suicide tries to give his act an heroic-social justification. In Lubitz’s case where the plane crashed on the mountains at 700 km an hour, death was sudden and since he was convinced he had to carry out a mission, the few minutes preceding it were, probably, without anguish and on the contrary we can say even exciting because of adrenaline. This hypothesis might have been an acceptable explanation if it weren’t for the words Brice Robin, the solicitor of Marseille, pronounced about the plane crash ” one commits suicide alone not when he is responsible for the life of 150 persons, for this reason I didn’t use the word suicide”.
candles
On thinking over these words, the explanation of the heroic act, however on the line with the other categories of suicides “The Intelligent Virus” deals with in the chapter “Le Mal de Vivre”, in my opinon, isn’t sufficient to explain the motives of plane suicides.
Plane crashed -in Provence
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
About the Author
Follow Us!
