Secondary school teacher Kathrin Goldbach, who was dating Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, is believed to have discovered two weeks ago that she was expecting, a report said.
Secondary school teacher Kathrin Goldbach, who was dating Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, is believed to have discovered two weeks ago that she was expecting, a report said.
The pair, who had an on-off romance for seven years, was letting the news sink in when depressive Lubitz deliberately crashed the Germanwings flight in the French Alps, killing all 150 people onboard, reported The Daily Star.
However, Goldbach was rumoured to have broken off their relationship because of the latter's controlling personality. A friend said that the pilot used to control what she would wear, what men she could speak to, even the length of her skirts. "He was a control freak of the highest order", the friend added. Another said that Lubitz had "problems with mood swings".
The report said 26-year-old Goldbach had told her students that she was "going to be a mum". She was living with Lubitz in Dusseldorf, Germany, at the time of the disaster.
However, it is believed that she was looking to move out over cheating and gay rumours about the pilot.
The news was revealed as an analysis of the data retrieved from the cockpit had revealed that Lubitz had crashed the plane deliberately. A transcript of the flight data showed that the pilot was locked outside the cockpit in the final minutes leading to the crash. He could be heard shouting, "open the damn door!" He had apparently left the cockpit to answer nature's call.
The captain tried to break the door open with an axe as the passengers screamed in the background. Investigators think that Lubitz deliberately began the descent of the plane by turning on the "flight monitoring system" button and did not speak a word in the last 10 minutes before the plane crash.
Recovery teams have so far only reached the mountainside on foot or by helicopter to continue the search for human remains as well as parts of the aircraft, including the flight data recorder which is still missing. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said that an access road was being constructed to the remote crash site.
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