What Led Andreas Lubitz To Crash The Airbus A320 In The Alps?
On March 24, the whole world was left breathless by the plane crash of an Airbus A230 plane in the Alps. On board, 150 people and 5 dogs, a tragedy of great dimensions that immediately mobilized several countries, while the population, expectant and with heavy hearts, searched for answers to the disaster.
It was then that the almost automatic debate began about the safety or not of the low-cost lines, about the age of an airplane that, perhaps, should no longer be in the air. For several hours, all of us look for a thousand reasons, a thousand origins in those sometimes imperfect machines that are part of our lives.
Technology sometimes fails, we know, accidents happen and the origin is almost always due to carelessness, a mistake, poor maintenance.
Few of us think that the person responsible was not the “machine”, but the man. A young co-pilot who voluntarily crashed the plane into the French Alps, taking with him all the lives on board.
How can we fit these kinds of things together? The human being always needs to find a why, a reason that justifies (if it can be done) this type of inconceivable acts that are contained in that still so dark part of our nature, there where the irrational, the disease perhaps, or the simple act of causing evil is still present.
What led Andreas Lubitz to crash the Airbus A320 in the Alps? Let’s analyze the possible causes, delve into all that information that has been transmitted to us today to try to find a “why”.
A pilot certified as “fit” but with psychological problems
Andreas Lubitz was alone in the cabin of the plane when suddenly, and voluntarily, he decided to press the descent button so that he and the rest of the passengers lost their lives crashing into the Alps.
According to the company “Lufthansa” the co-pilot of the Airbus A320 had been declared fit for his exercise, nobody suspected anything and he was a benchmark of competence and professionalism.
However, a medical report has been found where it was certified that he was not, that his psychological conditions were not adequate to continue working. Lubitz was aware of it but, far from accepting it, he had broken said report without the company knowing about it, going to his job when in reality, he never should have done it.
According to the information that has been published, Andreas Lubitz suffered from severe depression. It is justified by the fact that he was in the process of breaking up with his girlfriend, emotional problems that perhaps could have caused this suicidal reaction.
Now, it follows that these depressive disorders were constant in his life, that he had already gone through something similar long ago, receiving treatment for an episode of severe depression.
Severe Depression and “Expanded Suicide”
Now, the question would be the following : can a severe depression lead a person not only to suicide, but to cause the death of 150 people?
-When talking about depression we must bear in mind that no psychological problem is the same in all people, that is, there is no easily identifiable “unique” pattern. Often, there may be various associated disorders, it may be that instead of a severe depression suffered a psychotic depression. We do not know it.
-The reasons why a person can become depressed can be very varied and complex, but there is always a feeling of loss of control over their life situation and their emotions, as well as a very negative vision of the future. There is no hope. When these sensations are magnified, it is often derived from it.
-Usually, depression that occurs with suicidal ideas is usually in 15% of patients with this disorder. However, what is not frequent is that suicidal tendencies are joined by homicides. That is to say, it is not usual that when one wants to end his life, he also chooses to “punish” more people and, furthermore, not emotionally related to him.
-In the event that this will exists, we would already be talking about an “extended suicide”. That is, they are situations in which the person, in addition to ending his life, seeks to take the innocent life with him. Their despair and frustration is so high that they do not have enough to hurt themselves, they seek to magnify their desire for aggression towards others as well. There is anger and a desire for revenge.
– In the case of Andreas Lubitz, we know, for example, that his great obsession was flying. Probably his emotional problems had caused him to relapse into a new depression, a process that apparently was something latent in his psychological state and that had already served him in the past to delay in obtaining his degree.
Now, that psychological report that concluded that “he was not fit for work and could not fly” was undoubtedly the trigger to think not only about suicide but also about revenge. That would be his last flight, and his pain was not the only one he was going to feel. , and without a doubt, he succeeded.
-Some experts call explain that these incomprehensible acts are sometimes guided by Amok syndrome, that is, a spontaneous and uncontrolled reaction to hurt others, to kill indiscriminately.
However, for many, the terrible act that Andreas Lubitz committed may have been perfectly premeditated. It may even be that the Alps had some meaning for him since they say he maintained an important fixation with this landscape.
People always need an explanation for acts like the one that happened with the Airbus A230. We want to know and understand the reasons why an apparently normal man decides to end the lives of 15 people. Although sometimes we have to assume that the irrational, like evil, exists and is there, always escaping our control. Unpredictable and voracious, taking the life of what we love the most.
Be that as it may, from our space, we give our most sincere support to the families, and our heartfelt tribute and respect to the victims. Rest in peace.
