Details continue to emerge about the circumstances surrounding Tuesday’s crash.
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have been hiding an illness from his employers and had a sick note to excuse him from work on the day of the tragic plane crash earlier this week.
Investigators searching Lubitz’s home in Montabaur, on the outskirts of Dusseldorf, made a ‘significant’ discovery that may offer a ‘clue’ as to what happened on the Germanwings flight that Lubitz is believed to have deliberately crashed, resulting in the deaths of 150 people.
The significant discovery is reportedly a torn-up doctors’ note, excusing him from work on the day of the crash, with suggestions that Lubitz had been hiding an ongoing illness from his employers.
“Medical documents were found that indicate an ongoing illness and suitable medical treatment,” Düsseldorf prosecutors said in a statement.
“The circumstance that torn-up current medical certificates – also pertaining to the day of the act – were found, supports, after preliminary examination, the assumption that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and his professional circles.
“Investigations as well as the assessment of the medical treatment documents will take some days. As soon as reliable findings emerge, we will inform relatives and the public.”
German newspaper Bild, meanwhile, reported today that Lubitz was diagnosed with a “severe depressive episode” in 2009.
The paper also report that that Lubitz spent a year and a half receiving psychological treatment and that at the Lufthansa flying school in Phoenix, Arizona, he was forced to repeat his flying classes several times due to depression.
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