[Magdalen] Lubitz.

[Grace Cangialosi]

David,
With all due respect, I cringed at your description of Lubitz as a "wacko copilot."
If the emerging reports are correct, he  appears to have had a history of depression, which is a disease that can have tragic consequences for the individual and those around him/her, as we have seen again and again.

Responsible for his actions? Yes. Irresponsible in tearing up doctor's notes and hiding his illness? Yes.
"Wacko"? No.  Tragic would be more apt, I think.

> On Mar 28, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> 
> I have been curious about this name, so I did some checking.
> 
> Since Poland and Germany have been side by side and there has
> been much flip-flop of boundaries between them through the centuries,
> it's no surprise that there are German names that have been used by
> families who are Polish for centuries, and vice versa.
> 
> This is probably the case with the wacko copilot of the recent plane  crash
> in the French Alps.  His name has a Slavic ending "itz" which is  the
> German/Polish equivalent of -icz, -ich, and -age.  These are all  Slavic
> endings that roughly equate to "son of" (Who can forget blonde beauty
> newscaster Jessica Savage?).
> 
> Despite the Slavic origin of the "itz" names, the "itz" did not  hinder the
> career of the famous Admiral Doenitz before and during WW-2.
> He was Commander in Chief of the German Navy.
> 
> Then there was the second German warship of the Bismarck Class,
> the Tirpitz - "The Lonely Queen of the North" - also named after a
> German Admiral who commanded the German Navy.
> 
> A lot of history is buried in our names.
> 
> 
> David Strang.
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