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Originally Posted by polak
I just can't believe someone would do this.
Maybe someone threatened his family or something if he didn't do it? or maybe he had some sort of medical thing that caused him to lose consciousness?
I don't know. Just so crazy.
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As nik said;
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germanw...says-1.3010045
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The A320 is designed with safeguards to allow emergency entry into the cockpit if a pilot inside is unresponsive. The override code known to the crew does not go into effect, however — and indeed goes into a lockdown — if the person inside the cockpit specifically denies entry.
Robin said Lubitz apparently pushed a button that put the plane into a descent. The jet dropped thousands of metres before it hit the ground.
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It's not the first time a commercial airliner has committed murder-suicide in this manner either. It's rare, but it happens.