'I'm planning a heinous act that will be remembered forever': Killer pilot's ex-girlfriend says he shared chilling prophecy before Alps crash

Andreas Lubitz was a tormented, erratic man who was a master of hiding his darkest thoughts and would wake up from nightmares screaming 'we're going down', his former partner said. She revealed to a German newspaper how Lubitz ominously told her last year:

'One day I will do something that will change the whole system, and then all will know my name and remember it.' When she heard about the crash of Germanwings Flight 4U9525 on Tuesday, she remembered Lubitz's menacing prophecy. 'I never knew what he meant, but now it makes sense,' she told Bild.

It also emerged that Lubitz was familiar with the area of the French Alps where he brought down the Airbus A320, having previously completed a gliding course there.

Unusually, he had worked as a flight attendant for nearly a year before becoming a pilot, which led to teasing from his colleagues.

 

Meanwhile investigators at the Germanwings crash site revealed they have retrieved more than 400 body parts belonging to the disaster's 150 victims - but have not found an intact body. Above, DNA testing is carried out in the makeshift forensics laboratory near the crash site