The father of 37-year-old Robert Oliver Calvo, an American victim of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps, said he does not feel anger toward Andreas Lubitz, the copilot in the tragedy, who is believed to have taken down the plane. Instead, he says his thoughts are with Lubitz’s family.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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