2nd black box recovered from Germanwings plane crash: prosecutor
Posted April 2, 2015 11:57 am.
Last Updated April 2, 2015 11:59 am.
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Recovery workers in the French Alps have found the missing flight data recorder, or second “black box,” from Germanwings Flight 9525 that crashed in the French Alps, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin told CNN on Thursday.
Prosecutors believe Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately locked his captain out of the Airbus A320’s cockpit and crashed the flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on March 24.
All 150 people on board the plane were killed.
On Thursday, Germanwings said it didn’t know Lubitz had suffered from depression during his pilot training.
Earlier this week, Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, said it knew six years ago Lubitz suffered from an episode of “severe depression” before he finished his flight training, but said he passed all his medical checks since then.
Lubitz suffered from “generalized anxiety disorder,” and from severe depression in the past, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Sunday, citing sources close to the investigation.
In 2010, Lubitz received injections of antipsychotic medication, the paper reported.
A law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Thursday that leading up to the crash Lubitz was shopping doctors and seeing at least five, perhaps as many as six.
It is becoming increasingly clear to investigators that Lubitz was “very afraid” he would lose his license to fly because of his medical issues, the source said.
Lubitz kept going from one doctor to the next seeking help, the source said.
With files from The Associated Press
