Andreas Lubitz’s medical background not reported to German aviation watchdog
Source: The Guardian
The German aviation authority did not know about co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s medical background prior to the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people, it told Reuters on Sunday, raising more questions over medical oversight of pilots.
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Lubitz, believed to have deliberately steered the plane into a mountain in the French Alps, broke off his pilot training for several months in 2009 and upon restarting informed the Lufthansa pilot training school by email he had overcome a period of severe depression.
The statement from the LBA comes a day after the European Commission said its aviation regulator EASA had found “issues” with Germany’s aviation authority in a regular review of air safety enforcement.
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On Sunday German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said, without naming its sources, that investigators had found Lubitz used the username “Skydevil” to log on to the computer and had recently done Internet searches on “bipolarity”, “manic depression” as well as on “migraines“, “impaired vision” and “acoustic trauma”.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/06/andreas-lubitzs-medical-background-not-reported-to-german-aviation-watchdog
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