Andreas Lubitz

[joeluke]

As bad as the terrorists who flew the 9/11 planes?

[Prudie]

Off the top of my head a bit worse because the 9/11 lot believed in a cause.

[Retrochic]

Debatable. If he was genuinely suffering from a mental illness then no.

[ladybirder]

No because AL could have brought the plane down in a heavily built up/pedestrianised area and taken even more lives. Bad enough though.

[bookbinder]

The 9/11 terrorists just wanted to kill as many people as possible, but Lubitz simply wanted to commit suicide, and he found his moment when the captain went to the toilet and left him alone in the cockpit.

[Prudie]

Don't agree with that bookbinder, if he just wanted to commit suicide he'd have done it somewhere and somehow else

[bhg481]

If Lubitz simply wanted to commit suicide he could have done it at his own flying club whilst flying solo.

[Sqad]

Yes, I must admit that i find it difficult to understand the mental, bipolar, depressive illness part played in this tragic incident.......depressive illnesses are extremely common, suicide not that uncommon, but mass murder.............extremely uncommon.

[bookbinder]

Committing suicide at his flying club isn't as dramatic as taking 149 people with you, and he did say that he wanted to change the system, or make his mark, or something like that.

[Sqad]

Not my area of expertise, but if we MUST carry on down the mental disorder road, then we should be examining Psychopath as a diagnosis.

[bhg481]

You seem to be contradicting yourself bookbinder. First you say he simply wanted to commit suicide and then you say he wanted a dramatic exit from this world.

[wolf63]

I am bipolar and have been suicidal. I never considered taking others along with me when I died. This guy was perhaps psychotic and his perceptions of reality were distorted (a scary experience) but we will never know for certain what made him do it.

So many people have suffered as a result of his actions.

[anneasquith]

with the information we have at the moment. I'd say no.

[Zacs-Master]

I think the Question is misplaced as there are too many inconsistencies.

[ummmm]

No. I don't think they can be compared.

My aunty committed suicide. I don't think for a second she thought about the consequences of her actions.

[pixie373]

No. Impossible to tell without knowing the diagnosis. Sqad, I would think schizophrenia much more likely.

[Sqad]

pixie...yes.....that is a better suggestion than mine.

[ludwig]

// As bad as the terrorists who flew the 9/11 planes? //

In my opinion yes.

[andy-hughes]

In my opion, no.

This is an action that could have been decided on sixty seconds before it was carried out, by an obviously irrational mind.

The 911 atrocities took months of planning and calculation, and were carried out by people who believed what they were doing was right and just.

In terms of consequences, no suicidal person is in a state of mind that thinks outside themselves in any shape or form, so the consequences to innocent people, and the their families, was not likely to have been a consideration.

But as advised, he do not know, and never will know what went through this man’s mind on that day, so speculation by non-experts like us is largely redundant.

[naomi24]

How can we differentiate? They were all mentally deranged.

[tamborine]

//change the system// doctors should warn employers of patients unfit to work.