STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

Lufthansa Senior Managers as well as Physicians who examined Co-Pilot, Andreas Lubitz, are guilty of collusion in covering up the details regarding the terrorist pilot! 

He killed 149 Innocent Passengers from Germany, Spain, France and other countries.

From the very beginning of this tragedy on March 24, 2015, I specifically delineated this ‘suicide act’ committed by the 27 year old Andreas Lubitz’s of deliberately flying the German airline [ Lufthansa ] into the French Alps as a clear act of premeditated—TERRORISM! And not some ‘mental disorder’ which no one could pick up along the way.

Contrary to the prevailing views that this was a disturbed individual who had a history of mental illness, I specifically refused to accept that notion that the death of 149 innocent passengers was merely an act of some ‘crazy person’ who wanted just to kill himself, willingly taking 149 innocent victims with him. I said without any hesitation that Andreas actions were well thought out, even planned to the smallest detail; and could have been prevented like any other act of terrorism. 

Perhaps, no single person is more culpable of this premeditated act of terrorism than Carsten Spohr, Chairman and CEO of Lufthansa since 2007.  Spohr, an industrial engineer by training and a qualified pilot, immediately and intentionally lied to the public and the families of the victims. He was, as we say in the psychiatry/intelligence business, a clear give away when he emphatically declared “that Andreas Lubitz had passed both his physical and mental status exam without any problems”. Spohr knew differently. 

How do I know that?

Over thirty years of working in the counter-terrorism business as well as reorganizing major companies, I have learned that the CEO, whomever he/she might be, is always responsible for the ultimate acts of all of the employees. And in Spohr’s case, he had been in charge of the Lufhthansa personnel as far back as 1996 [according to his bio]. Why am I so emphatic about making this incident a criminal and not civil case?
The reason is simple!
Flying is a complicated business with multiple variables that have to be monitored. However, from my experience, I knew that the mental status of most pilots has rarely been addressed appropriately –or even at all.This tragedy highlights the fact that a plane can be an instrument of death as easy as a gun, artillery shell or bomb. In the wrong hands, a plane becomes an instrument of death and destruction as effective as a bomb.

Whether someone wants to fly the plane into a building as an act of terror as in 9/11 then it is equally plausible that same plane can be flown into the ground as an act of terror in order to instill fear in the passengers on board; as well as, the potential passengers who might want to fly one day. Terror is not the act of destruction; but the act of terror in order to instill fear into an innocent populace all over the world.

Such a terrorist was Andreas Lubitz. 

Despite the pathetic plaintive cries of clergymen from his town in Germany or individuals involved in his former gliding club, no amount of white washing can eliminate the very definite act of a man, like Andreas Lubitz, who spent countless hours, days and possibly years, mapping out the method, place and techniques by which he would eventually kill 149 innocent people, many of whom were school children. There is no mercy for him or the ‘co-conspirators’ like Carsten Spohr and Dr. Wolfgang Roller, Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lufthansa. These officious individual representing nothing more than their financial interests in a company that prides itself on “German Excellence in Engineering and Service.”

It’s time for the world to understand that every pilot flying any plane can be a potential terrorist as long as he/she is never evaluated effectively for mental illness or suicidal ideations with the intent to kill massive amounts of innocent people.

That day has not come yet.

Only after a significant prosecution of the people involved in this tragedy will the world once again trust flying and the pilots.