German Wings crash: Lufthansa apparently informed public authority does not … – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          Andreas Lubitz, co-pilot of the crashed German Wings Maker, photographed in 2009 in Hamburg
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

The medical service with Lufthansa has a newspaper report does not inform the Federal Aviation Authority over the decayed severe depression of the co-pilot of the crashed in France German Wings machine. As the “Welt am Sonntag” reported, citing a written statement from the Federal Aviation Agency, the Brunswick authority had to be available for inspection at the Aeromedical Center of Lufthansa in Frankfurt Main, 27 March, “no information about the medical background.”

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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had the copilot Andreas Lubitz the German Wings Airbus previous determination was found that on 24 March on the way consciously controlled from Barcelona to Dusseldorf in a mountain in the French Alps in order to take his own life. Here, 150 people were killed. It soon became known that the 27-year-old Lubitz had already been treated for severe mental problems including suicidal risk.

                         
         
         
                                                             

No information passed

According to the newspaper had the Lufthansa doctors, pilots in the years 2009-2014 under investigation, must inform the Federal Aviation Authority about it. A flight surgeon had since April 2013, case, refer to the supervisory authority of severe diseases such as depression. Since then, there have been two usability tests, in the summer of 2013 and 2014. ‘/ P>
                         
         
         
                                                             

According to the “Welt am Sonntag” existed in the license copilot also a so-called SIC notice, requiring that contact the lizenzvergebende authority of the examining physician must. But that was not to happen, such as the Federal Aviation Authority confirmed on request of the newspaper. The Lufthansa declined to comment on the case, citing judicial inquiries that would fully supported by the company, of course.

                         
         
         
                                                             

suitability confirmed

Since 2009, the Lufthansa doctors had a total of six times confirmed in the company’s aeromedical centers in Frankfurt and Munich, the suitability of Andreas L., writes the “Welt am Sonntag”. 2009, a psychiatric report was created in addition to the ordinary test. Other such reports were not sought.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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