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» What We Know So Far About Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz 28/03/15 16:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks | WP - Don’t be so quick to believe that Andreas Lubitz committed suicide: "At the center of each of these cases hovers a black hole of unknowableness. There is no way to understand why these men did what they did, or even to verify that they did it." | What drives people to murder-suicide? "Incredibly extreme events like this are sometimes just inexplicable."

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At the center of each of these cases hovers a black hole of unknowableness. There is no way to understand why these men did what they did, or even to verify that they did it. Don’t be so quick to believe that Andreas Lubitz committed suicide Saturday March 28 th , 2015  at  3:37 PM 1 Share By Jeff Wise March 27 Jeff Wise is a New York-based magazine writer and author of the "The Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found MH370" and "Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger." What, exactly, are we talking about, when we talk about a man who deliberately flies a plane carrying 149 other human beings into the side of a mountain? In a sense, we’re talking about a suicide. That’s a common enough thing. Plenty of people carry it out — 40,000 each year in the United States alone. You could also say we’re talking about murder, and that’s true, too. The other 149 people on board Germanwings 9525 had the