On 24 March 2015, the world was shocked by the crash of an Airbus A230 aircraft in the Alps on board, 150 people and 5 dogs, a great tragedy that immediately mobilized several countries. The world’s population, hopeful and heartbroken, was looking for answers, about the disaster.
That’s when the near-automatic debate about safety, or their absence, about low-cost airlines began about the lifespan of an aircraft that, perhaps, should no longer be in flight. For several hours, we all searched for a thousand reasons, a thousand origins of what happened to these machines that sometimes fail, but are part of our lives.
- Technology sometimes fails.
- We know.
- Accidents occur and the origin is almost always due to oversight.
- Errors or poor maintenance.
Few people thought that the person responsible could not be the “machine” but the man. A young co-pilot who deliberately shot down the plane in the French Alps, taking every life on board.
How do you understand that kind of thing? Human beings must always find a reason, a reason that justifies (if it can be justified) this kind of inconceivable act that is installed in this still dark part of our nature, where the irrational, the disease perhaps or the simple act causing evil, is present.
What prompted Andreas Lubitz to shoot down the Airbus A320 in the Alps?Will we analyze the possible causes, based on all the information that has been given to us, to try to find one?For what?.
Andreas Lubitz was alone in the cockpit of the plane when, suddenly, voluntarily, he decided to press the descent button so that he and the rest of the passengers would lose their lives when they crashed into the Alps.
According to the company? Lufthansa, the co-pilot of the Airbus A320 had been declared fit for business; no one suspected anything and was considered a benchmark in terms of competence and professionalism.
However, a medical report was found that he was not fit, that his psychological conditions were not the most appropriate to continue working, which Lubitz was aware of, but far from accepting the situation, he had broken that relationship without the company realizing it, presenting himself to his work when in fact he should never have done it again.
According to published information, Andreas Lubitz suffered from severe depression, she was separating herself from her fiancée, with emotional problems that could have caused this suicidal reaction.
Now it seems that these depressive disorders were a constant in his life, that he had experienced something similar for some time, being treated for a severe episode of depression.
The question would be: can severe depression lead a person not only to suicide, but also to the deaths of 150 people?
? When we talk about depression we have to take into account that no psychological problem is the same in all people, that is, there is no single and easily identifiable model, often there can be several associated disorders, it may be that instead of severe depression, one suffers from psychotic depression. You don’t know if that was the case.
? The reasons why a person is depressed can be very varied and complex, but there is always a sense of loss of control over their vital situation and emotions, as well as a very negative view of the future. There’s no hope. When these feelings are magnified, the desire for suicide is common.
? In general, the depression that goes through suicidal ideas is usually found in 15% of suicide patients, however, what is not common is that the trends of homicide are added suicide tendencies, the unusual is a person who wants to end his life with desire and also the option of punishing more people and, mainly, people who are not emotionally connected.
? If this desire exists, it would already be called a “prolonged suicide”, that is, they are situations in which the person, in addition to ending his own life, tries to take the lives of innocent people with him. The frustration is so great that it can no longer cause them harm, so the person tries to magnify his desire for aggression towards others as well. There is anger and desire for revenge.
? In the case of Andreas Lubitz, we know that, for example, his great obsession was flying, probably his emotional problems caused him to fall back into a new depression, a process that was apparently dormant in his psychological state and that he had already come up with in the past and that he delayed obtaining his pilot’s degree.
However, this psychological report, which concluded that it was “not fit for work and could not steal,” was undoubtedly the trigger to think not only of suicide, but also of revenge. This would be his last flight, and his pain would not disappear to be felt by himself. Suffering would take on expansive dimensions and certainly did.
? Some researchers explain that these incomprehensible acts are sometimes caused by what they call Amok syndrome, that is, a spontaneous and uncontrollable reaction of harming others, of killing indiscriminately.
For many, Andreas Lubitz’s terrible act was perhaps perfectly premeditated, even suspecting that the Alps made sense to him, as they say he had an obsession with this landscape.
People always need to find an explanation for acts like the Airbus A230, we want to know and understand the reasons why a seemingly normal man ends the lives of 150 people, although sometimes we have to accept that the irrational side, like evil, exists and is there, always out of our control. Unpredictable and voracious, evil can end the lives of those we love most without explanation.
In any case, from our space, we send our sincere support to family members, as well as our tribute and respect to the victims. Rest in peace.