The co-pilot of the crashed A320 Andreas Lyubitts six years ago interrupted training for psychiatric treatment due to severe depression. According to Reuters, wrote about this German tabloid Bild. According to the publication, treatment pilot held a total of one and a half years, and when he found it healthy, returned to training. Bild said that the relevant documents are now studying German investigators, and then give them to France, where being the main causes of the crash investigation.
training he interrupted in 2009 by six months because of “depression” or “burnout” – told Der Spiegel journalist Matthias Gebauer former classmates Lyubittsa. It is reported by New York Daily News. In recent years he lived with his parents in Montabaur, Bild said the mayor of Gabriele Wieland. Familiar Lyubittsa told a Dutch journalist Victor Shildkampu that the pilot was going to get married next year, adds NY Daily News. Familiar to which journalists got characterize Lyubittsa as a man of quiet, friendly, energetic and a great fan of flying.
After the collapse of the German Airbus International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has demanded to hold regular special checks pilots, including examination of both mental and physical condition. If the test results are worrisome, should also weigh conduct neuropsychological research, Deutsche Welle reports citing AFP. In the Air France also intend to introduce a rule “at least two in the cockpit.” Previously, the need for such a decision has already stated in the leadership of a number of companies, including Easyjet, Norwegian and Air Canada.
The European Pilots Association (ECA), which brings together 38,000 people, declared its readiness to cooperate in order to enhance safety, even if the collapse of the A320 would be isolated cases of emergency. This is reported by Les 20 minutes. Meanwhile, the French national union of pilots promised that he would complain to an unidentified representative of a governmental bureau that investigates aviation security, information leak in New York Times. This edition is the first to write about that in the cockpit before the crash was only one pilot, even when official reports on this subject was not.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr at a press conference on March 25 said that six years ago Lyubitts interrupted training for six months. The reasons are unknown Spohr, writes the New York Times. He explained that under the rules of the company, if the break is done for medical reasons, it remains confidential. However, it will be revealed to investigators if required. After a break for continuing training requires permission. Upon completion of the Lyubitts 11 months waiting for the release of the pilot’s job, working steward. Spurs noted that this is nothing unexpected. To prepare it took in 2008, co-pilot in Germanwings he became the fall 2013 “He was 100% ready to fly, without any restrictions,” – said the Spurs. All necessary tests he passed brilliantly. Skills Lyubittsa top manager described as flawless. Spurs called the incident “isolated act” which can not be avoided even with “the best system in the world.”
Lufthansa pilot training lasts from one and a half to two years, said the representative of the group Martin Ricken. For more than 40 years of compulsory part of the program is to train in Phoenix in Arizona training center. Ricken explained that there are very good climatic conditions for flying. NY Times notes that for this reason many are concentrated in Arizona flight school in Arizona and is trained terrorist “Al Qaeda”, sent the hijacked plane into the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 Lyubitts was trained completely.
On Thursday were searched in his parents’ home in the affluent district of Lyubittsa Montabaur, as well as in its “luxury apartment” in Düsseldorf, according to NY Daily News. Investigators seized a computer, laptop and other materials and may have found something important, as told Daily Mail Dusseldorf police spokesman Marcus Nisheri. Rumors about finding a suicide note was not confirmed, reports Deutsche Welle, referring to the prosecutor’s office Duesseldorf.
Airbus A-320 crashed Germanwings company on March 24, killing all 150 on board people. Presumably Lyubitts stayed in a cabin alone, deliberately turned the autopilot to reduce to a height of 30 m, block and waited. According to Bild, the crew commander at the last minute trying to break into the cockpit door with an ax. The plane crashed into a mountain in the French Alps.
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