Mental state, not terror ties eyed in Germanwings co-pilot's deadly decision

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With no apparent ties to terrorism, authorities were focusing Thursday on the mental state of the German co-pilot believed to have intentionally crashed a plane into the French Alps Tuesday, killing all 150 aboard.

 

Andreas Lubitz, the 28-year-old who officials say locked the pilot out of the Germanwings cockpit and them calmly slammed the plane into a mountainside at 430 miles per hour, reportedly battled burnout and depression in 2009, while training to realize his dream of flying. It was not known if the conditions continued to plague him years later, but new clues could emerge from searches taking place Thursday at a Dusseldorf apartment Libitz maintained as well as at his parents' home in Montabaur, a small town in western Germany.

 

French prosecutor Robin Brice insisted Thursday that Lubitz had no known ties to terrorism that could explain the act.

 

"A terrorist?" he said in response to a question. "Absolutely not."

 

Three Americans were among those killed, including Yvonne and Emily Selke, a mother and daughter from Virginia, and Robert Oliver, whose name,but no further details, was released Thursday by the State Department.

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