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Germanwings co-pilot had been treated for ‘suicidal tendencies’─── 17:56 Mon, 30 Mar 2015
Düsseldorf - The co-pilot of the Germanwings jetliner that crashed in the French Alps last week had been treated for “suicidal tendencies” before receiving his pilot’s license.
The office of the German prosecutor in Düsseldorf today said Andreas Lubitz had been treated by psychotherapists “over a long period of time.”
In follow-up visits to doctors since that time, “no signs of suicidal tendencies or outward aggression were documented.”
Lubitz’s medical records show no physical illnesses.
Lubitz, 27, was at the controls of a Germanwings Airbus A320 jetliner, en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, when he set it on a course to crash into the mountains in southeastern France. Cockpit voice recordings document that Lubitz was alone in the cockpit and refused to allow the captain to re-enter as the plane crashed, killing all 150 people on board.
NYTimes
