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Lufthansa airlines was informed that suicidal pilot Andreas Lubitz suffered from severe depression — but did absolutely nothing about it, a new report says.
Six years before the unbalanced aviator crashed a packed passenger plane into the French Alps, he sent an email to Lufthansa about his “episode of severe depression.”
At the time, Lubitz was seeking to return to flight school after breaking off his training to receive psychiatric care, the New York Times reported Saturday.
Despite the red flags, Lufthansa put Lubitz back through its standard screening process as if nothing had happened.
Airline officials didn’t pursue a plan to make sure he was getting appropriate treatment or impose special monitoring of his condition, the Times reported.
The oversight had grave consequences.
Lubitz eventually advanced through the training program and received his wings as a pilot.
Lubitz was at the controls of Flight 9525, alone inside the cockpit after locking out the captain, when he crashed the Airbus A320 into a mountain on March 24 — killing 149 people.
“If I had known about his medical problems with depression before starting his flying career and during his primary training, I probably would not have accepted him,” Reiner Kemmler, the former head of Lufthansa’s department of aviation psychology, told The Times.