New Details On Pilot
New Details On Pilot, The girlfriend of killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz may be pregnant with his child.
Kathrin Goldbach, 26, whom he once planned to marry, discovered that she was expecting a baby as little as two weeks ago, German media reported.
The pair, who are said to have had a patchy relationship over the last seven years, were letting the pregnancy news sink in when Lubitz crashed a Germanwings flight into the French Alps, according to German newspaper Bild.
The news comes as it was suggested that Miss Goldbach broke off her relationship with Lubitz because his erratic personality left her fearing for her safety, the newspaper reported.
One friend said: ‘He tried to order her what to wear, what men she could speak to, even the length of her skirts. He was a control freak of the highest order.’
Another friend added: ‘She said he was very kind and attentive, but that he had problems with mood swings. And I think we sensed that she became more fearful over time.’
It claimed that Miss Goldbach lost patience with Lubitz's increasingly unpredictable and controlling behaviour just weeks before he downed the Germanwings Flight 4U9525.
Miss Goldbach still lived with Lubitz, 27, at the time of his death, but it is understood she waslooking for another place to live.
German media also reported that Lubitz was having a five-month fling with a Germanwings stewardess named as Maria.
‘He was always seeking assurances about the way he looked and the way he was viewed by others,’ Maria said.
She painted a portrait of a ‘tormented and erratic’ man who would wake up from nightmares screaming: ‘We’re going down, we’re going down!’
She added: ‘He once told me he would do something to change the whole system, that the world would know his name and remember him.’
The claims surrounding Lubitz's complicated personal life came as recordings from the flight’s black box revealed the captain’s desperate attempts to break into the cockpit to regain control of the plane.
According to transcripts published today, captain Patrick Sondheimer screamed ‘open the goddamn door!’ as his co-pilot deliberately flew the aircraft into an Alpine ravine.
Yesterday, it was revealed that Lubitz was living 'on the edge' because he feared that his deteriorating blurred vision would cost him his pilot's licence.
Lubitz masked his true condition – described by police as ‘severe burnout syndrome’ – from his employers and was aided by German confidentiality laws which forbade his doctors from revealing just how mentally ill he really was.
But police still don’t know whether his vision problems, which are understood to have begun several years ago, were caused by his psychological condition or whether, as one officer said, he was in fact ‘slowly going blind’.
In the weeks before his death, Lubitz splashed out thousands of pounds buying two Audi cars. He took delivery of one vehicle just five days before Tuesday’s horror.
Kathrin Goldbach, 26, whom he once planned to marry, discovered that she was expecting a baby as little as two weeks ago, German media reported.
The pair, who are said to have had a patchy relationship over the last seven years, were letting the pregnancy news sink in when Lubitz crashed a Germanwings flight into the French Alps, according to German newspaper Bild.
The news comes as it was suggested that Miss Goldbach broke off her relationship with Lubitz because his erratic personality left her fearing for her safety, the newspaper reported.
One friend said: ‘He tried to order her what to wear, what men she could speak to, even the length of her skirts. He was a control freak of the highest order.’
Another friend added: ‘She said he was very kind and attentive, but that he had problems with mood swings. And I think we sensed that she became more fearful over time.’
It claimed that Miss Goldbach lost patience with Lubitz's increasingly unpredictable and controlling behaviour just weeks before he downed the Germanwings Flight 4U9525.
Miss Goldbach still lived with Lubitz, 27, at the time of his death, but it is understood she waslooking for another place to live.
German media also reported that Lubitz was having a five-month fling with a Germanwings stewardess named as Maria.
‘He was always seeking assurances about the way he looked and the way he was viewed by others,’ Maria said.
She painted a portrait of a ‘tormented and erratic’ man who would wake up from nightmares screaming: ‘We’re going down, we’re going down!’
She added: ‘He once told me he would do something to change the whole system, that the world would know his name and remember him.’
The claims surrounding Lubitz's complicated personal life came as recordings from the flight’s black box revealed the captain’s desperate attempts to break into the cockpit to regain control of the plane.
According to transcripts published today, captain Patrick Sondheimer screamed ‘open the goddamn door!’ as his co-pilot deliberately flew the aircraft into an Alpine ravine.
Yesterday, it was revealed that Lubitz was living 'on the edge' because he feared that his deteriorating blurred vision would cost him his pilot's licence.
Lubitz masked his true condition – described by police as ‘severe burnout syndrome’ – from his employers and was aided by German confidentiality laws which forbade his doctors from revealing just how mentally ill he really was.
But police still don’t know whether his vision problems, which are understood to have begun several years ago, were caused by his psychological condition or whether, as one officer said, he was in fact ‘slowly going blind’.
In the weeks before his death, Lubitz splashed out thousands of pounds buying two Audi cars. He took delivery of one vehicle just five days before Tuesday’s horror.