Maybe he was - they say there's a lot of it about these days - but let me know if you can spot any actual evidence in this piece.
And in a second story today, the Star says it was cause he had eye problems and depression.
Joined-up journalism!
Update: There's a very thorough article about Lubitz in the Sunday Telegraph.
On qualifying, Lubitz did not land a job as a pilot immediately and worked as a cabin steward until a vacancy arose. It earned him the nickname “Tomato Andi”, possibly because one of his roles was to hand out tomato juice. It has also been suggested “Tomato” is a derogatory term, meaning someone who isn’t sure if he was a “fruit” or not. There is no evidence, so far at least, that Lubitz was gay and kept his homosexuality hidden, but it’s inevitably an area for the police to explore.
Whatever the truth, for Lubitz, a young man wanting to fly transatlantic jets, to find himself working as a “trolley dolly” would have been all too demeaning...
There have been so many competing claims and speculations in both the broadsheets and tabloids over the weekend, I think it's safe to conclude no-one really has a clue what really happened.
Update2: And by Monday it was...
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Mrs Middleton has done very well with being a former trolley girl. Doors to manual!
ReplyDeleteI had been thinking that some tabloid journalist might take the line that depressed + somewhat odd has to equal gay...
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