THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Germanwings Crash Intentional On Tuesday morning, a Germanwings flight crashed in the Alps of Southern France killing upwards of 150 people. While little was known at the time as to the nature of the crash, officials were quick to point out that it was not terrorism. But the more details we are learning, the more it seems that this crash was intentional. Today we learned from French officials that the co-pilot deliberately crashed in an effort to "destroy the plane." The co-pilot's name is Andreas Lubitz. He was only 28 years old with only 630 hours of flight experience under his belt since graduating flight school in 2013. He is a German citizen from Montabaur, and he apparently has no known ties to terrorist groups. The black box reveals that Lubitz locked fellow pilot out of the cockpit and was therefore alone (and alive) behind the wheel for the final minutes leading up to the crash. The plane's descent was intentionally manipulated, done manually by Lubitz. In the last ten minutes, Lubitz did not respond to his senior officer pounding on the cockpit door, nor did he speak to air traffic controllers or signal for emergency, though his steady breathing could apparently be heard on the black box recording until impact. According to French prosecutor Brice Robin, "The intention was to destroy the plane. Death was instant. The plane hit the mountain at 700km per hour." He added, "I don't think that the passengers realized what was happening until the last moments because on the recording you only hear the screams in the final seconds." The bottom line is that there is still a lot we don't know about what happened. However, the propensity to rule out terrorism speaks to a heightened fear of offending or causing panic. Bergdahl: A Deserter Remember when the Obama administration proclaimed that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl served with "honor and distinction?" It turns out that he was a deserted after all. Last year, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl made headlines for all the wrong reasons. The Obama administration tried to tout Bergdahl's return from Taliban captivity as a great triumph. While I would never hope for any American to be held as a prisoner by the Taliban, the nature of Bergdahl's capture immediately became a point of concern. I interviewed members of Bergdahl's platoon and family members who lost loved ones in their search to find Bergdahl after he disappeared while serving in Afghanistan. Their collective assessment was that Bergdahl wasn't captured but instead deserted his platoon and even sought out the Taliban. Yet despite the overwhelming anecdotal evidence, Obama and members of his administration continued to back Bergdahl as having served "with honor and distinction" and made "absolutely no apologies" for the controversial nature of his release. They also went so far so as to discredit the members of Bergdahl's platoon who spoke out. Even after the charges of desertion, incoming White House communications director Jen Psaki said that Bergdahl's trade was "absolutely" worth it. We also can't forget that Bergdahl's release came at the expense of the U.S. releasing five senior Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay. Now the Army has officially charged Bergdahl with desertion. He faces, at best, dishonorable discharge, and at worst, life in prison. It's bad enough that the United States made such a ridiculously one-sided deal, but the fact that fellow platoon members lost their lives searching for a deserted is hard to rectify.