Germanwings pilot got licence despite mental fitness questions

Five years ag,o Federal Aviation Administration officials questioned the mental fitness of the Germanwings pilot who crashed an airliner in the French Alps last month. 

However, they awarded him a US pilot licence after his German doctor said he had fully recovered from severe depression, government records show.

The records show Andreas Lubitz applied for a US pilot licence while he was employed by Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, and was training to be a pilot at a flight school in Phoenix in 2010.