[Magdalen] Lubitz.

Allan Carr allanc25 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 07:00:08 UTC 2015


If he hadn't been mentally iill, he wouldn't have have murdered 150 people.
I've had three depressed people in my family commit suicide. It happens,
and should not be ignored in a pilot's evaluation out of political
correctness. As in this case, many lives may be at stake. Don't their lives
matter?

On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> So "mentally Ill" = "wacko"
> Got it.
>
> > On Mar 28, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> <javascript:;>>
> > 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 <javascript:;>> 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
>


-- 
Allan Carr


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