The investigation is over. Forget it?
Decoding the flight recorders and analyzing the data obtained in the case of the Germanwings liner of the Lufthansa subsidiary that was operating the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, information processing and finding out the picture of the incident were carried out at a truly Stakhanov pace.The disaster occurred 24 in March in the remote area of the Alps in the south-east of France, and the next day (!) The New York Times citing for some reason a military source reported the withdrawal of the investigation team, made after examining the flight recorder records. According to the investigation version, the commander of the crashed Airbus A320 left the cockpit, but could not return to his seat, while the co-pilot did not respond to a colleague and did not contact dispatcher services. March 26 prosecutor Marcel Brice Robin, again without waiting for the final decoding results, said at a press conference that the actions of the co-pilot A320 28-year-old German citizen Andreas Lubitz may be regarded as an intention to destroy the aircraft.
The second "black box" - a parametric recorder responsible for storing technical information about the flight - rescuers found almost simultaneously with the first, but it turned out to be empty. Its contents were found at the crash site on April 2. In the evening of the same day, the carrier was delivered to a Paris suburb of Roissy, where BEA - the French Bureau for the Investigation and Analysis of Civil Security aviation. And the next morning, the media reported that the study of the black box confirmed the guilt of Lubitz, who, while in the cockpit, used the autopilot to lower the aircraft to a height of 100 feet, and also changed the autopilot parameters several times to increase the speed of descent. That is, the experts worked hard at night in order to bring their conclusions to the press as soon as possible. What kind of emergency?
After the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing-777 in the skies over the Donbass in July last year, the Ministry of Transport of the United Kingdom reported that the decoding of the black boxes would take about two days - at that time they were already in the laboratory in Farnborough. But this is a decoding, as for the analysis of data taken from the flight recorders, then in the same department noted that this process may take several weeks. It is not surprising, because the experts have to study the order of 300 technical parameters. Aviation security specialists, in principle, are not inclined to rush, and prefer to double-check several times before drawing a conclusion, much less sharing the results with journalists.
In the case of the Germanwings A320 crash investigation, all regulations, procedures, rules were thrown aside for the hectic race.
Its participants can be proud of a kind of record: less than two days later, as the authorities established and voiced the reason for the fall of the airliner, the sequence of events leading to the tragedy, and called it the immediate culprit - Andreas Lubitz. As if someone really wanted the hype around the disaster to subside as soon as possible.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the controls
However, the motives that led the Germanwings pilot to commit this terrible crime are still unclear. Today, the mass media image of Lubitz consists of two halves - light and dark. On the one hand, according to friends, residents of his hometown of Montabaur, members of the LSC Westerwald flying club, where he began to fly, this is a modest, friendly, sympathetic guy who dreamed of a sky from a young age and achieved his goal. On the other hand, Lubitz is a complete sociopath with suicidal tendencies, a patient in psychiatric hospitals and a frequenter of psychoanalytic cabinets.
The mother of a former classmate Lubitza claims that he had suffered from depression in the past. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
Lubitz underwent psychiatric treatment for 18 months. (Bild)
Lubitz was recently abandoned by his bride and was under tremendous pressure to cope with the situation. (Daily Express)
The former bride remembered that Lubitz said: “One day I will do something that will change the whole system, and then everyone will know my name.” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
Lubitz was treated for depression and was released from work by the treating neuropsychologist for a period that included the day of the accident, but he decided not to pay attention to the advice of the doctor and went to work. (Wall Street Journal)
Lubitz took a potent antidepressant, lorazepam. The physicians, aware of the side effects of this psychotropic drug, insisted that Lubitz refrain from controlling the aircraft while taking this medicine. (Bild)
The investigation revealed several obvious signs that Lubitz had planned suicide beforehand and intentionally changed course and brought the plane to a fall. (Washington Post)
These reports, although they poured water on the mill version of suicide, in fact, create a very contradictory picture: either Lubitz long and deliberately hatched a crime plan, or went to him under the influence of antidepressants; whether he literally suffered from depression from his childhood, or could not stand the troubles that had befallen him. Not to mention the fact that the fact of going to a psychiatrist is more likely an argument “against” the version of suicide than “for”. British specialist Cristobal Owens conducted a study that showed that people who feel depressed and suicidal are rarely sought the help of specialists. According to Japanese doctors, almost 70% suicides did not consult with a doctor about their psychological problems.
People and anonymous
However, did Lubitz suffer from any mental disorder? All of the above media reports were published with reference to anonymous sources - to “persons close to the investigation,” to unnamed Lufthansa employees, or to unknown representatives of medical institutions. The “ex-fiancée” and the “classmate’s mother”, who so successfully supported the version of depression, are the same mysterious anonymous characters that prevent us from believing both in the veracity of their words and in their existence.
It is hardly necessary to unconditionally accept the first - the bright - side of the accused. “This is what neighbors usually say about a serial killer,” the character of one film, which we will mention later, reasonably notes. The plain words, but not devoid of common sense, come to mind, like “Someone else's soul is darkness” or “There are devils in the still waters.” And yet, this “variation” of Andreas Lubitz has one indisputable advantage: everyone who spoke more or less sympathetically of the lost pilot - real people, their names, residence, occupation are known.
In the stories about the dark side of Andreas Lubitz, the real people are only psychoanalytic experts who have never seen a dead pilot, but readily reproduce the standard Freudian educational program in relation to his personality.
Even in faraway Australia, the demonization of Lubitz goes by the well-known scenario. So, in the message of the Internet portal News.com.au. A certain Australian pilot, of course, on condition of anonymity, expresses the opinion that the hype around the mysterious disappearance of Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines in March 2014 in March over the Pacific Ocean, in particular, the version of his involvement in the incident of the aircraft crew, could affect the Lubitz actions. This subject is immediately developed by Bond University psychology professor Clive Jones, noting that the circumstances of the fatal flight MH370 could have a negative impact on a “vulnerable” person.
As soon as there are specific sources in the media information about the Lubitz case, the topic of suicide immediately fades. So the University Hospital Düsseldorf reports that the treatment that Lubitz underwent there was not associated with depression. As a result, the official investigation acknowledges that the question of the motives for the actions of the co-pilot still remains open. “The investigation lacks both rational explanations for such an act, as well as the detected confession,” the Düsseldorf Prosecutor’s Office press release notes.
However, on the line where law enforcement structures stop, the press begins to act, actively forming an idea of the pilot of Germanwings as a psychopathic person who deliberately killed the plane and its passengers.
More and more compromising details are revealed, to the extent that Lubitz visited sites of dubious content. Some people call him a homosexual, the second gossip about Jewish origin, and the third find a page in social networks where the pilot admires the militants of the Islamic state.
So who is Andreas Lubitz? Gay with a pregnant girlfriend? Is a Jew a supporter of radical Islam? Or the loser suffering from a hopelessness who orders from the dealer two new Audi? As a result, the man in the street, whose head begins to spin all over from this whole kaleidoscope, returns to the “respectable” version of suicide. Thus, without any official verdict in the eyes of the public, Lubitz becomes the culprit in the death of 150 people.
Chronicle of deferred death
In the western media sphere, only Bloggers defend Lubitz’s innocence, for example, Stockholm lawyer Henning Witte and retired US military Gordon Duff, who insist that the pilot acted under external control. Some supporters of this view recall the 2004 Hollywood tape of the year, The Manchurian Candidate, a reproducing model, the use of which may have led to the death of the passengers and crew of the Airbus A320.
In the center of the picture is a candidate for the vice-president of the United States, in whose brain a chip is implanted, the key to managing which is in a certain transnational corporation. The film is a remake of the beginning of 60's tape, which in turn is based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the year. It should be noted that by this time the CIA had been working for several years in the field of monitoring brain activity in the framework of the MK Ultra program.
However, in order to decide the fate of the flight of the airline Germanwings Barcelona-Düsseldorf, one would hardly need a complex conglomerate of genetic engineering, neurosurgery and NLP technology, demonstrated in the Hollywood film 2004 of the year, or something similar to it. The reality is much more prosaic. For example, in Moscow one can easily find an ad for clinics practicing post-hypnotic suggestion (“postponed hypnosis”), in which the patient performs the task given to him after some predetermined time limit: an hour or two, or several days after the end of the session.
It is difficult to judge how much advertising is true, but this is enough to understand: it is not about the “Newton binom”, not about the fantasies of conspiracy, not about the mysterious esoteric practice, but about a long-tried approved medical method. But in addition to the little-known clinics, there are well-known research centers dealing with this issue, albeit without much publicity. Not to mention the structures completely unknown to the public that serve the special services of various countries, where for several decades the methods of remote control of human consciousness could be brought to perfection.
As follows from the interpretation of the negotiations in the A320 pilots' office, communication between the aircraft commander and his assistant proceeds quite routinely up to a certain point. Lubitz's behavior changes radically around 10: 27 after the commander reports that he is going to go to the toilet and asks Lubitz to begin preparations for landing in Dusseldorf. At a press conference, the French prosecutor called the co-pilot's answers suspiciously laconic, he mumbles something like “hopefully” and “see.” Shortly afterwards, you hear the chair move back and click the door. In 10: The 30 plane begins to lose altitude. At the same time, Lubitz does not say a word, the recording only fixes his even breathing.
This most “even breathing”, it seems, struck the decryptors and investigators: the “juicy” detail got on the pages of the press. For someone - very inappropriate. Because it actually negates the version of suicide.
First, among the somatovegetative disorders characteristic of a potential suicide surviving a psychological crisis, experts just note intermittent breathing and frequent sighs. Second: a person who, until the last seconds of his life, keeps even breathing in the cockpit of an airplane falling from an altitude of 11,5 kilometers, can only be in two states - sleep or hypnotic trance. But the pilot did not sleep, as he continued to exercise control. So we are dealing with the second option.
The words of the commander that he goes to the toilet, started the mechanism provided for by the hypnotic effect of “anchoring”, having served as a signal, after which the pilot entered a trance and began to carry out the program laid down in it. And quite a bit was required of him: to block the door, change the autopilot settings and direct the plane to the ground. Being in a trance, Lubitz did not realize what was happening, and therefore could not respond to external stimuli: the commander's call to open the door, the dispatcher's requests, warnings of on-board systems about the possibility of a collision. In fact - the perfect murder. Neither evidence nor witnesses. The only "minus" - the lack of motive. However, if the picture of the crime is “obvious,” are the motives so important?
Who conceived and carried out the operation that led to the death of the Airbus A320, following the route Barcelona-Düsseldorf? Here opens a wide field for versions and conjectures. We are talking about the obvious. And obviously in this stories only one thing is a large-scale campaign of manipulating public opinion in order to turn the victim of the tragedy into its culprit and help the real criminals to cover their tracks and escape from responsibility.
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