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Co-pilot had 'serious' depressive episode
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Co-pilot had 'serious' depressive episode

Update: Police said they had no "smoking gun" after a search of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's home, after tabloid Bild reported on Friday that Lubitz received treatment for a “serious depressive episode” during a break in his training six years ago.
Can 'nightmare' of pilot suicide be prevented?
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Can 'nightmare' of pilot suicide be prevented?

The discovery that the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight is suspected of deliberately crashing the plane will inevitably raise questions about security on airplanes, but is it really possible to prevent a pilot from committing mass murder-suicide?
Merkel to pay respects at Airbus crash site
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Merkel to pay respects at Airbus crash site

Chancellor Angela Merkel will join French President Francois Hollande and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in the French Alps on Wednesday at the site where a Germanwings A320 travelling from Barcelona to Düsseldorf crashed on Tuesday morning.
Germanwings crash: What we know so far
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Germanwings crash: What we know so far

An airbus A320 carrying 150 people crashed in the southern French Alps on Tuesday morning, in what has been described as one of the worst plane disasters in the country. Here’s what we know so far about the crash.