Germanwings pilot 'with suicidal tendencies' enjoying flight - video


A video of the German pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps last week has been published on the Internet. The short film made about 10 years ago features Andreas Lubitz flying a glider not far from his native town of Montabaur: he smiles and seems to be enjoying the flight.

Investigators believe that Lubitz, serving as co-pilot on a Germanwings flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on March 24th, locked the captain out of the cockpit and steered the Airbus A320 plane into the side of a mountain while passengers screamed in horror. A total of 150 people died in the crash.

The German pilot was treated for suicidal tendencies years ago before he received his pilot’s license, German prosecutors said on Monday.

It has confirmed that Lubitz broke off his pilot training in 2009 for nearly a year, around the time he was reportedly suffering from depression and anxiety, Reuters reports.

“Several years ago before obtaining his pilot’s license the co-pilot was in a long period of psychotherapeutic treatment with noticeable suicidal tendencies,” Duesseldorf prosecutors said in a statement on Monday.

They said that in recent years he had not shown signs of suicidal behavior or aggressive tendencies in visits to doctors.

www.belsat.eu/en/, following Reuters

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