Upon recovery of the black box cockpit recorder, French authorities determined that the pilot, after leaving the cockpit to go to the bathroom, was locked out by his co-pilot who then disabled the auto-pilot settings and rammed the jet into the mountain of his own volition.

Disgusting. Simply disgusting.

Yesterday, I read a Tweet from someone who alluded to a news report that was afraid to call this an act of terrorism. The Tweeter (whose name I don't know and whose Tweet I cannot find as a result) said the news outlet was hesitant to label it as terrorism because the perpetrator was not Muslim.

Guess what? I'm not hesitant. The crashing of Germanwings flight 9525 into a mountainside killing all aboard is nothing short of TERRORISM. What else do you call it?

I don't care that Andreas Lubitz suffered from depression. I know plenty of depressed people. People who regularly take medication for their pain. Extremely depressed. They've never physically hurt themselves, let alone a plane or bus or even a car full of people.

Do not blame the depression.

Do not make him a sympathy case.

Make no bones about it, folks, he is a terrorist!

He did exactly what ten members of Al Q'aida executed on 9/11/01. It was pre-meditated and carried out calmly and smoothly. According to the black box, his breathing remained the same the whole time.

Anyone can be a terrorist. It doesn't matter your religion, culture, gender, sexual preference, whatever. Anyone can be a terrorist, not just Muslims.

Yes, Lubitz intended to kill all of them. Whether he was part of a terror cell like ISIS or just homegrown and disgruntled like Timothy McVeigh, he is a terrorist and a coward.

And there is a special place in hell reserved for him for what he did.