Flights security

Crash challenges German identity, notions of privacy

 In the case of Andreas Lubitz — the seemingly unstable co-pilot who crashed a German jetliner into a French mountainside last week — it is almost as if this nation is reluctant to ask itself what went wrong. Had the crash happened in the United States, pundits might be screaming for the heads of the psychiatrists who did not ground Lubitz, or furiously condemning the rules and company procedures that allowed the troubled 27-year-old to step into the cockpit of Flight 9525.