article_snippet: Montabaur, Germany (CNN)On the surface, Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz seemed, in the words of those who had known German, normal, capable, even fun.
article_snippet: Montabaur, in western Germany, is where Lubitz pursued Montabaur love of flying from a young age.
article_snippet: Lubitz had been with Germanwings, a budget airline owned by Lufthansa, since September 2013 and had completed 630 hours of flight time, the airline's media office said.
article_snippet: Most of Lubitz's training took place at the Lufthansa flight training center in Germany.
article_snippet: Bild also trained in the United States, spending six months at facility in Arizona as part of a required program to get Bild license, a Lufthansa spokesperson said.