Germanwings pilot saw psychiatrists two weeks before crash: final report

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/13/germanwings-pilot-psychiatrists-two-weeks-before-crash-final-report
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Andreas Lubitz, the pilot who deliberately flew a passenger jet into a French mountainside last year, killing all 150 people on board, was referred to a psychiatric clinic two weeks before the crash, a report has found.

French air investigators, who unveiled their final report into the March 2015 crash on Sunday, said the German had shown “symptoms suggesting a psychotic depressive episode” in December 2014 and had seen several doctors in the weeks that followed.

The French crash investigation agency BEA revealed that a private doctor had recommended he be admitted to hospital. However, none of them had alerted the 27-year-old pilot’s employer, Lufthansa, and all the medics who treated him refused to speak to investigators.

BEA’s report confirmed that Lubitz had deliberately set the plane’s autopilot to descend over the French Alps where it crashed, after locking the flight captain out of the cockpit.