--- title: Morning Must Reads: March 27 description: The Co-Pilot: What We Know French prosecutors claim that Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 last Tuesday, killing himself and the 149 other individuals... canonical: https://time.com/3761260/morning-must-reads-march-27-2/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T11:52:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T19:53:31.386Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must Reads: March 27 og:description: The Co-Pilot: What We Know French prosecutors claim that Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 last Tuesday, killing himself and the 149 other individuals... og:url: https://time.com/3761260/morning-must-reads-march-27-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Morning Must Reads og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morning Must Reads: March 27 twitter:description: The Co-Pilot: What We Know French prosecutors claim that Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 last Tuesday, killing himself and the 149 other individuals... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Morning Must Reads: March 27 (27 Mar 2015) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 27, 2015 11:52 AM CUT  The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 27, 2015 11:52 AM CUT ## [**The Co-Pilot: What We Know**](http://time.com/3761151/andreas-lubitz-germanwings-co-pilot-background/ "undefined") French prosecutors claim that Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 last Tuesday, killing himself and the 149 other individuals aboard. Investigators raided Lubitz’s apartment along with his parents’ home in Montabaur, Germany, this week ## [**Takei Urges #BoycottIndiana**](http://time.com/3760960/george-takei-twitter-boycott-indiana-religious-objections-law/ "undefined") _Star Trek_ actor George Takei slams Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for signing a law that allows business owners to deny same-sex couples service ## [**Notre Dame Beats Wichita State**](http://time.com/3761013/notre-dame-wichita-state-elite-eight/ "undefined") The most intriguing matchup of the Sweet 16 didn’t live up to its billing, as Notre Dame topped Wichita State, 81-70, to earn a spot in the Elite Eight ## [**Jeremy Clarkson Offered Job by Russian Military TV**](http://time.com/3761214/russia-tv-clarkson-job/ "undefined") A television station owned by the Russian defense ministry is offering a job to former _Top Gear_ host Jeremy Clarkson. The Zvezda TV channel published a letter to Clarkson on its website late Thursday, inviting him to visit Moscow in April ## [**Arab Leaders Inch Closer to Creation of Joint Military Force**](http://time.com/3761223/joint-arab-force/ "undefined") Creation of such a force would be a sign of a new determination among Saudi Arabia, Egypt and their allies to intervene aggressively in regional hotspots, whether against Islamic militants or spreading Iranian power ## [**Zayn Malik Speaks Out About Leaving One Direction**](http://time.com/3761234/zayn-malik-one-direction/ "undefined") The 22-year-old said that the past week—which saw him leave the band’s tour, return home to London and subsequently quit the band—has left him “feeling quite interesting,” in an interview published Friday ## [**Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Plans to Leave Wealth to Charity**](http://time.com/3761036/apple-tim-cook-fortune-charity-philanthropy/ "undefined") After paying for his 10-year-old nephew’s college tuition, Apple CEO Tim Cook says, he plans on leaving all his wealth — which today amounts to $120 million — to good causes. “You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change,” he told _Fortune_ ## [**Oil Council: Arctic Drilling Needed Now**](http://time.com/3761144/arctic-drilling-shale-oil/ "undefined") The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study to be released Friday ## [**NBC Reviving** **_Coach_** **With Craig T. Nelson**](http://time.com/3760981/nbc-coach-craig-t-nelson/ "undefined") The 1990s sitcom, which went off the air in ’97, will apparently be a sequel to the comedy series rather than a reboot. Coach Hayden Fox, who will have been retired, is called back to be assistant coach for his own grown son ## [**Militias Back Out of Iraq Campaign After U.S. Air Strikes**](http://time.com/3760407/isis-tikrit-shiite-us/ "undefined") Three Shi’ite militias pulled out of the Iraqi assault on the ISIS-held city of Tikrit in protest of U.S. air strikes supporting the campaign. Reports indicate the groups, representing a third of the 30,000 government-led forces, are withdrawing from the front lines ## [**The Winklevoss Twins to Play Themselves on** **_Silicon Valley_**](http://time.com/3761029/cameron-tyler-winklevoss-silicon-valley-cameo/ "undefined") Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have already been portrayed onscreen once, but this time around they will be playing themselves. The twin brothers, famous for suing Mark Zuckerberg over claims Facebook was their idea, will have a cameo in HBO’s _Silicon Valley_ [**_Get_** **TIME** **_’s The Brief e-mail every morning in your inbox_**](http://time.com/politicsemail "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3761260/morning-must-reads-march-27-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3761260/morning-must-reads-march-27-2/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: March 27 (27 Mar 2015)","datePublished":"2015-03-27T11:52:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:53:31.386Z","description":"The Co-Pilot: What We Know French prosecutors claim that Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 last Tuesday, killing himself and the 149 other individuals...","url":"https://time.com/3761260/morning-must-reads-march-27-2/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3761260/morning-must-reads-march-27-2/","name":"Morning Must Reads: March 27 (27 Mar 2015)"}}]}] ```