A320 crash: the co-pilot had been suicidal in the past


The prosecutor in Düsseldorf found that the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had suicidal tendencies in the past. An announcement on Monday, six days after the crash of the A320 Germanwings who left Barcelona to Düsseldorf. This is the first time since the tragedy that German investigators provide information about the mental health of the young man.


"There was several years before he obtained his pilot's license, the first officer suffered for a long time psychotherapeutic treatment (because) significant suicidal tendencies, said prosecutor Christoph Kumpa. After that and until the end, other medical visits have resulted in sickness absence, but not be attested suicidal or aggressive towards others. "


The home of Andreas Lubitz, prescriptions for drugs prescribed to manic were found as well as large amounts of sleeping pills, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.


To date, the police found no letter announcing a project to crash a plane or claiming the crash, according to prosecutors in Düsseldorf.






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