Andreas Lubitz - framed?
They have set up a Facebook page titled 'Andreas Lubitz A320, we are against the hunt' where they have been sharing their theories about the cause of the Alps disaster.
Some suggest the black box voice recorder had been tampered with by Germanwings parent company, Lufthansa, to make it appear as if Lubitz had deliberately crashed the plane.
Hundreds of its followers are understood to be from the pilot's home of Montabaur in Germany and its surrounding area.
One supporter, who claims to be a former classmate, said: 'I believe in the innocence of Andy!'
They also point out that the second black box data recorder had not yet been recovered from the crash site, which they claim was also proof of a cover-up.
Others also suggested that one of Lubitz's former girlfriends was paid by the media to say that he had once planned to commit a 'heinous act' that would go down in history.
Lufthansa declined to comment.
"... Germanwings pilot Frank Woiton is from the same German hometown of Mountabaur as Lubitz.
“I flew with that colleague three or four weeks ago,” he said, referring to Lubitz. “I had quite a normal notion of him. He even had future plans. He said that he is happy to fly for Lufthansa that he wants to fly long distance. He wants to become A380-pilot.”
Meanwhile, Evan Cullen, president of the Irish Airline Pilots Association said he was not happy with media coverage of the crash.
“We still don’t know exactly what happened,” he told broadcaster Marian Finucane during an interview on RTE Radio One. “We have no technical report and we certainly don’t have a report from qualified accident investigators according to the international rules.”
When Finucane said it seemed “a little unfair” that Lubitz had been “found guilty more or less overnight,” Cullen explained: “Where I have the difficulty is that a country such as France, which signed up to the international conventions on accident investigation and doing it properly and scientifically, has allowed a magistrate jump to this conclusion without any technical report, without any sign-off from a technical expert. They have done all of this in the absence of the flight data recorder.”
“I’m flying airplanes 26 years,” Cullen said. “I never ever recall an accident such as this where a determination has been made by an authority in 48 hours in the absence of the flight data recorder. It is an extraordinary thing that’s happened.”
A chief French investigator said on Saturday it was too early to rule out other explanations for the crash.
“There is obviously a scenario that is well known to the media and which we are focusing on,” French investigator General Jean-Pierre Michel told French media.
“But we have no right today to rule out other hypotheses, including the mechanical hypotheses, as long as we haven’t proved that the plane had no (mechanical) problem,” he added, pointing out that a second black box containing the flight data recorder had not been found yet." [...]
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"Spokesman for the investigative team of Germanwings Airbus crash stated that information about written evidence being found during searches, published by British tabloids, is not true.
German police rejected media claims on Friday that they had found evidence proving that the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane had planned his suicide.
"Information about written evidence being found during searches, published today by British tabloids, is not true," a spokesman for the investigative team told reporters." [..]
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"Reports that the pilot of doomed Germanwings Flight 9525 tried to break down the cockpit door with an axe are false, reports Henry Samuel:
There are no axes in passenger jet cabins, only in the cockpit, pilots in France have said, countering reports the captain of the stricken Germanwings had desperately tried to break down the cockpit door with an axe."
"The only axe in the plane is inside the cockpit. Since a certain number of threats and capabilities for using instruments to take control of the plan, there is no longer any axe in the cabin. The only tools available in the cabin are crowbars," he told BMFTV.
The Air France captain, whose union is filing legal complaint against "persons unknown" for leaking details of black box recordings to the press before investigators, said he regretted that the presence of an axe, even in the cockpit, had been made public in the media." [..]