[Magdalen] Lubitz.

[Allan Carr]

With all respect, someone who deliberately flies an airplane with 150
people in it into a mountain is fully wacko according to the several
dictionaries I've just read "A person regarded as eccentric or irrational:"

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
>



-- 
Allan Carr