An Oscar-nominated film will still be released in the UK despite its disturbing similarities to the Alps air disaster.
Argentinian film Wild Tales features a mass killer who locks himself in the cockpit of a passenger jet and crashes it in to the ground to murder everyone on board.
In terrifying scenes the fictional passengers panic and one tries to smash his way through a door to get to the controls in chillingly similar circumstances to the ill-fated Germanwings Airbus A320 flight.
The fictional killer invites his enemies on to the flight, including a lover who jilted him and a colleague who was hard on him at work, so he can kill them.
Despite protests the highly-acclaimed movie will be shown in British cinemas from today, however, it was released in Spain and Germany last year.
On Tuesday he locked the captain out of the Airbus A320’s cockpit before setting the airliner’s controls to descend into a rocky valley, obliterating the plane and killing all 150 on board.
Reports in Germany suggest the locked-out pilot may have resorted to using an axe in a desperate bid to get through the armoured door as the plane hurtled towards the ground.
Meanwhile Düsseldorf University Hospital said in a statement Friday that Lubitz had been undergoing diagnosis there since last month, DPA news agency reported. “Reports telling that Andreas L. [Lubitz] received treatment against depression at our clinic are inaccurate,” a hospital spokeswoman said, adding: “It was diagnostic tests.”
Lubitz’s colleagues have described his behaviour as ”normal,” and said he didn’t seem to be suicidal.
“I got to know him…as a very nice, fun and polite young man,” Klaus Radke, head of the local flight club in the town of Montabaur in western Germany, said. He added that Lubitz came across as “a completely normal guy.”