The Oxford English
Dictionary gives the meaning of notoriety as ‘Famous for some bad quality or
deed’. In April 2015 Andreas Lubitz committed an act of notoriety! Downing
the Germanwings plane in the French Alps put him among a tragic group of men. Perhaps he does not equal Hitler’s henchmen in
notoriety by murdering millions of Jews and other nationalities in their
deliberate plan to conquer the world. But that is no consolation to the 150
families who mourn their loved one’s death caused by this futile criminal act.
