Germanwings co-pilot may have hidden evidence of illness, German prosecutors reveal

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain.

The evidence came from the search of Lubitz’s homes in two German cities for an explanation of why he crashed the Airbus A320 into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

Prosecutors did not say what type of illness — mental or physical — Lubitz may have been suffering from but it was widely reported that the 27-year-old had received treatment for depression.