Germanwings Pilot Andreas Lubitz Really Shouldn’t Have been Flying

Andreas Lubitz saw at least five different doctors, including for psychiatric help.
Germanwings Pilot Andreas Lubitz Really Shouldn’t Have been Flying
Andreas Lubitz participates in the Frankfurt City Half-Marathon on March 14, 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany. Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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For a 27-year-old pilot, Andreas Lubitz was seeing an “amazing” number of doctors--which, if it was properly reported to his employers in time, he may not have set foot in a cockpit ever again.

Lubitz, the co-pilot on the Germanwings plane that crashed last month, was seeing at least five different doctors, including a neurologist and psychiatric specialists, said a report from German magazine Der Spiegel. The magazine cited a leaked medical report about his medical condition.

“For a young man, he consulted an amazing number of doctors,” an investigator told the publication. 

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