Crash co-pilot was a psychiatric patient and planned a big gesture, girlfriend tells reporter
Former girlfriend says health troubles ended Andreas Lubitz's hope of dream Lufthansa job
The Germanwings co-pilot who crashed his Airbus in the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard, told his former girlfriend that "one day everyone will know my name", according to a German newspaper.
In an interview, the flight attendant, 26, known as Maria W, told Bild that when she heard about the crash she recalled Andreas Lubitz telling her last year: "One day I'm going to do something that will change the whole system, and everyone will know my name and remember."
The black box voice recorder indicated that Lubitz, 27, locked his captain out of the cockpit on Tuesday and deliberately flew Flight 4U 9525 into a mountainside, French officials said, in what appeared to have been a case of suicide and mass killing.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said all the signs were "pointing towards an act that we can't describe: criminal, crazy, suicidal".
German prosecutors said searches of Lubitz's homes had uncovered "medical documents that suggest an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment", including "torn-up and current sick leave notes … one covering the day of the crash".