Families of Germanwings victims to start getting remains.  Wonder if we will ever hear the real truth?  They keep dancing around his medical symptoms when in our minds we all have an idea why this person committed this heinous act.  A normal person wouldn’t have the brain drain.   For some reason, every time I fly I check out the pilots on that flight cause if they don’t meet my qualifications, this sister is out of there.  The European and Middle East airlines need to do a better job of vetting their pilots (and that won’t get the job done as far as I am concerned) before I head in that direction which probably will be never – and I don’t need to draw a road map!

If only the people who knew him would have come forward, especially the girl friend.  It would have saved a lot of lives and grief.  I know, if you see something – don’t say something – cause it might hurt someone’s feelings.  Well!  I would hate to have the truth on my slate and not come forward and then have to live with it the rest of my life.

By JAMEY KEATEN

France Germanwings Crash

BERLIN— Germanwings’ parent company Lufthansa says that the families of 30 victims of a flight that crashed in the Alps will receive their loved ones’ remains next week.

In a statement, Lufthansa said that an MD11 plane will transport the body parts from Marseille to Duesseldorf on Tuesday evening, and they will be handed over to relatives on Wednesday.

Further remains will be transported to the victims’ homelands over the coming weeks, it said.

Earlier this week, plans to repatriate the remains of the victims had been put on hold because of errors on death certificates, angering many families.

Families will meet next week with French investigators. Prosecutors say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally crashed Flight 9525.

AP’s earlier story is below.

A state prosecutor says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the disaster, a revelation that suggests Andreas Lubitz was seeking advice about an undisclosed ailment.

Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, in comments to The Associated Press, would not address the question of what symptoms Lubitz was assessing.

Robin, who is leading a criminal investigation into the March 24 crash that killed all 150 people on board Germanwings Flight 9525, said he has received information from foreign counterparts and is going over it before a meeting with victims’ relatives in Paris next week.

In that closed-door meeting at the French Foreign Ministry on June 11, Robin will discuss his investigation and efforts to reduce administrative delays in handing over the victims’ remains to grieving families, his office said Friday. Those remains are still in Marseille, frustrating some families.

Investigators say Lubitz intentionally crashed the jet after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. German prosecutors have said that in the week before the crash, he spent time online researching suicide methods and cockpit door security — the earliest evidence of a premeditated act.

Late Thursday, Robin told the AP that Lubitz had also reached out to dozens of doctors in the period before the crash, without elaborating. That suggests Lubitz was desperate to find an explanation for some mental or physical ailment, even as he researched ways of killing himself and others.

Germanwings and parent company Lufthansa have said that Lubitz had passed all medical tests and was cleared by doctors as fit to fly.

Robin said he had received responses to a formal French request for international cooperation in his probe, including from Germany — home to about half of the victims, and to Germanwings and its parent company Lufthansa. Robin said he would address the media after thoroughly examining the responses and meeting the families next week.

For now, “I have decided to prioritize the victims’ families,” he said.

Robin also noted delays in embalming the remains of the victims, which he said must be done according to the national rules of each of the 19 countries the victims came from. That complex process has prompted agonizing waits for many families.

In the meeting with families, Robin plans to go over the discovery of DNA evidence and the reconstitution of the remains, and explain the details of handing them over to loved ones, his office said. Local officials near the crash site have already signed needed authorizations for burials to proceed.

A lawyer representing several German families has said anger is growing because errors in official death certificates have stalled the repatriation of the remains of those killed. Many relatives had intended to start burying their loved ones next week.

I certainly don’t blame them for being angry, especially since the truth won’t be told until they are made to speak up.

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