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Berlin, March 23, 2017 (dpa/NAN) The father of Andreas Lubitz, co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings flight into the French Alps killing all 150 on board in 2015, has criticised the investigation into the disaster and cast doubt on its impartiality.
“There were obviously things that were not discovered at all, perhaps because they did not want to find them.
“Critical points raised by the family were simply ignored by the authorities,” Guenter Lubitz said.
He is to hold a press conference on Friday to clear his son’s name.
He plans to use the opportunity to dismiss investigators’ claims that his son, who was 27 at the time of the disaster, was suffering from depression and that the crash was an act of suicide.
“Our son was a very responsible person.
“He had no reason to plan and implement a suicide, and certainly not to take other innocent people with him.
“Such behavior was simply out of character,” Lubitz told Die Zeit.
It will be the first time that the Lubitz family has spoken in public about the crash.
The Airbus A320, flight 9525 which was on a routine flight from Barcelona to the western German city of Dusseldorf on March 24, 2015 crashed into a remote mountainside.
Representatives of the victims have reacted angrily to Lubitz’s planned press conference, describing it as “tasteless” and “irresponsible”. (dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole