Editing Andreas Lubitz (section)

=== Personal life ===
Andreas Lubitz was born on December 18, 1987 and he grew up in Neuburg an der Donau, Bavaria, and Montabaur in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. He came from a stable family. His father was a banker and his mother was a piano teacher who played the organ at a church. Lubitz was known to be a quiet boy, with a crew cut and a sweet smile. Since boyhood, he had been passionate about becoming a pilot, Lubitz papered his bedroom with posters from Airbus, Boeing and Lufthansa.

Lubitz attended the Mons-Tabor Gymnasium in Montabaur, where he was known to be a disciplined student. At the age of 14, he became an expert glider pilot, spending many weekends at a flying club in Montabaur. He was voted "third-most orderly" of his graduating class of 2007. 

In September of 2008, Lubitz was accepted into the Lufthansa Flight Training Pilot School in Bremen, Germany. But in November, he suspended his pilot training after being hospitalized for suffering a severe episode of depression. After Lubitz' psychiatrist determined that he had fully recovered from the depressive episode, Lubitz returned to the Lufthansa school in August 2009, after 9 months of treatment. He moved to the United States in November 2010 to continue training at the Lufthansa Airline Training Center in Goodyear, Arizona.

From June 2011 to December 2013, he worked as a flight attendant for Lufthansa while training to obtain his commercial pilot's license, until joining Germanwings as a first officer in June of 2014.