Germanwings co-pilot went to many doctors

A STATE prosecutor in France says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors.
THE revelation suggests that Andreas Lubitz was seeking advice about an undisclosed ailment.
But in comments to the Associated Press, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin would not address the question of what symptoms Lubitz was assessing. Robin is leading an investigation into the March 24 crash that killed all 150 people on board Germanwings Flight 9525 and will meet with victims' relatives in Paris next week. In that closed-door meeting at the French Foreign Ministry on June 11, Robin will discuss his investigation and efforts to reduce administrative delays in handing over the victims' remains to grieving families, his office said on Friday. Those remains are still in Marseille, frustrating some families. Investigators say Lubitz intentionally crashed the jet after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. German prosecutors have said that in the week before the crash, he spent time online researching suicide methods and cockpit door security - the earliest evidence of a premeditated act. Late on Thursday, Robin told the AP that Lubitz had also reached out to dozens of doctors in the period before the crash, without elaborating. That suggests Lubitz was desperate to find an explanation for some mental or physical ailment, even as he researched ways of killing himself and others. Germanwings and parent company Lufthansa have said that Lubitz had passed all medical tests and was cleared by doctors as fit to fly. A lawyer representing several German families has said anger is growing because errors in official death certificates have stalled the repatriation of the remains of those killed. Many relatives had intended to start burying their loved ones next week.