Germanwings co-pilot feared he was losing sight

The co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps feared he was losing his eyesight, and some of the many doctors he consulted felt he was unfit to fly, a French prosecutor said yesterday.

However, the doctors did not report their concerns to Andreas Lubitz’s employers, because of German patient privacy laws, the Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin told reporters in Paris.

Robin could not confirm if Lubitz’s vision troubles were real or imagined.