A doctor seen by the pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the French Alps last year, killing 150 people, recommended two weeks earlier that he should be treated in a psychiatric hospital, investigators say.
The unidentified private physician was one of a number of doctors consulted by German pilot Andreas Lubitz as he wrestled with symptoms of a "psychotic depressive episode" that started in December 2014 and may have lasted until the day of the crash, they said on Sunday.
Prosecutors believe the 27-year-old co-pilot, who had a history of depression, barricaded himself into the cockpit and deliberately propelled his Airbus jet into a mountainside on March 24, 2015, killing everyone on board.
France's BEA air accident investigation office said in its final report that neither Lubitz nor any of his doctors had alerted aviation authorities or his employer about his illness.
(Culled from i.stuff.co.nz)
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