Crash Investigator: Pilot Tried To Show Germans Still Good At Mass Murder

Arranging for Germans to participate in the mass slaughter of innocents can prevent recurrences of the Germanwings crash.

Dusseldorf, Germany, April 1 – Aviation officials probing the life of the pilot who crashed a Germanwings aircraft into the Alps and killed all 150 aboard last week have discovered that the man sought to prove that someone of his nationality was still capable, seventy years after the Holocaust, of massacring large numbers of innocents at once.

Analysis of the data recovered so far indicates that Copilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit and calmly plowed the airplane into the ground. Post-crash investigation revealed that Lubitz was suffering from depression and vision loss, and had concealed his medical history from the airline, in violation of regulations. However, that data seemed insufficient to explain why the 27-year-old would decide to take another 149 people with him when committing suicide.

Probing further, Lufthansa and German officials were able to rule out motives directly connected to Islamic terrorism, and finally discovered communications of the ailing pilot to the effect that he wanted to show the world that Germans could still hold their own in terms of the slaughter of civilians and captives. The near absence in recent decades of German-perpetrated atrocities, in contrast to the long-running mayhem wrought by Muslims across the globe, had Lubitz feeling inferior on the behalf of his countrymen, said aviation investigator Gottin Himmel.

“It has been nearly seven full decades since a German killed so many people with malice aforethought,” he noted. “Not since the death marches of concentration camp inmates, the mass-shootings of prisoners of war as the allies advanced on Germany in the east and west, and the ruthless suppression of revitalized local resistance groups in Nazi-occupied Europe in the final months of the Second World War has a German had a hand in wholesale bloodshed of this magnitude.”

In recordings of conversations retrieved by investigators, Lubitz can be heard boasting that his planned crash would restore some of the pride that his country had in its people’s ability to sow death and destruction far beyond their own borders. “Technological advances and a successful welfare state are one thing, but nobody remembers Germany for such achievements,” the Montabaur native is recorded as saying. “I’m going to do something we Germans used to be famous for, and the world will notice.”

Anyone can make a high-quality automobile nowadays, the former flight attendant continued, but Germans have ceded the real glory and fame to “those savages in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria,” by not maintaining their focus on what Germans made their greatest reputation for doing efficiently and enthusiastically between 1939 and 1945.

The findings carry implications for German aviation safety in particular, one of which is that arranging for Germans to participate in the mass slaughter of innocents can prevent recurrences of the Germanwings crash.