US aviation body questioned mental fitness of Germanwings pilot in 2010

Officials at the US Federal Aviation Administration questioned the mental fitness of the Germanwings pilot who crashed a plane in the French Alps some five years before the tragedy.

US aviation body questioned mental fitness of Germanwings pilot in 2010

Officials at the US Federal Aviation Administration questioned the mental fitness of the Germanwings pilot who crashed a plane in the French Alps some five years before the tragedy.

They awarded Andreas Lubitz a US pilot licence after his German doctor said he had fully recovered from severe depression, government records show.

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