Teacher girlfriend of killer ‘told her pupils she was pregnant’
THE girlfriend of Andreas Lubitz may be pregnant, it was claimed yesterday.
Maths teacher Kathrin Goldbach – who had planned to marry Lubitz next year – reportedly told pupils that she was ‘going to be a mum.’
She was also said to have travelled to the scene of the crash, only to arrive and discover that he was the perpetrator of the disaster.
Miss Goldbach, 26, told the pupils at the Gesamtschule in Krefeld, near Dusseldorf, she was pregnant, German newspaper Bild reported.
The pair met as teenagers while working together at a Burger King in his home town of Montabaur.
They moved together to Dusseldorf and shared a flat after he qualified as a pilot around four years ago. They intended to marry but his constant demands and desire to be ‘in control’ meant that by the time of the crash she was looking to end their relationship.
Reports emerged that police searching his flat had found a ‘small mountain of pills’ and he had apparently been refusing to take his antidepressant medication.
The news came as pictures of Lubitz as a child and a teenager emerged. An excerpt from his school yearbook said he would ‘become a professional pilot so as to sell his cocktails around the world.’
Yesterday a British air safety expert said Lubitz was able to hide his medical problems because of a ‘gaping hole’ in the system for monitoring pilot health. Under confidentiality laws rules, which also operate in the UK, patients do not have to tell GPs where they work and doctors are not able to tell employers about any health issues because of patient confidentiality.
The onus of reporting any health issues rests solely on employees.
Tony Newton, a British pilot who and Civil Aviation Authority examiner, said: ‘It’s a gaping hole. It would happen in the UK as well.’