In an interview with Germany's Bild newspaper, she recalled a comment Andreas Lubitz made last year.
"One day I'm going to do something that will change the whole system, and everyone will know my name and remember," he told her.
Flight 4U 9525 crashed on Tuesday. The
woman, a 26-year-old flight attendant who flew with Mr Lubitz for five
months last year, was "very shocked" when she heard the news, the paper
says.
She is referred to only as Maria W.
If Mr Lubitz
deliberately brought down the plane, "it is because he understood that
because of his health problems, his big dream of a job at Lufthansa, as
captain and as a long-haul pilot was practically impossible," she told
Bild.
However, French investigator Jean-Pierre Michel told the AFP
news agency that the pilot's personality was "a serious lead [in the
investigation] but... can't be the only one".
The black box voice recorder indicates that Mr Lubitz locked his
captain out of the cockpit on Tuesday and crashed the plane into a
mountainside in what appears to have been a suicide and mass killing.
German
prosecutors say they found medical documents at Mr Lubitz's house
suggesting an existing illness and evidence of medical treatment. They
found torn-up sick notes, one of them for the day of the crash.
They say he seems to have concealed his illness from his employers.
His former girlfriend told Bild they separated, "because it became increasingly clear that he had a problem".
She said he was plagued by nightmares and would at times wake up screaming "we're going down".
She
added that he became stressed when they spoke about work: "He became
upset about the conditions we worked under: too little money, fear of
losing the contract, too much pressure."
A fellow member of the flight school where Andreas Lubitz took
lessons reported the co-pilot had known the area of the French Alps
where the plane crashed from going there on gliding holidays.
A French newspaper, Metro News, that Mr Lubitz had holidayed with his parents at a flying club nearby.
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