Fatal Descent Quotes

“Without the skills to handle setbacks—bred, indeed, to believe that setbacks are inconceivable obstacles on the non-negotiable path to success—the child raised by helicopter parents is ill-equipped to handle defeat. Behind a flawlessly groomed exterior lies an immature and fragile personality. Rejection that in a healthier context might be interpreted as a challenge or an opportunity to seek out success somewhere else—“when a door shuts, a window opens”—feels unbearable to a young person with an unformed sense of self.”
― Jeff Wise, Fatal Descent: Andreas Lubitz and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525

“Each of the passengers has had the feeling before, in an instant of worry during unexpected turbulence, of breathtaking dread, that sudden confrontation with the all-too-real possibility that life could end, not somewhere in the distant future, but here and now, right now. On other occasions, those thoughts have been fleeting. Now they have come back, dwarfing those earlier shivers like the sun outshines a spark.”
― Jeff Wise, Fatal Descent: Andreas Lubitz and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525