Alps crash: Lubitz 'had treatment for suicidal tendencies'

 

 The co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane, Andreas Lubitz, had received treatment for suicidal            tendencies years ago, investigators have said, but not in recent doctor visits.

Lubitz is suspected of deliberately crashing the plane in the Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Officials in Duesseldorf said the investigation to this point had revealed no clue to any motive.
So far, DNA strands of 80 of the victims have been found.
A spokesman for Dusseldorf prosecutors, Ralf Herrenbrueck, said Lubitz had received psychotherapy treatment "with a note about suicidal tendencies" for a number of years before becoming a pilot.
However, he said that since Lubitz received his licence, documentation had shown no such treatment.
He added: "There is no evidence to show that the co-pilot was about to do what he appears to have done."
Mr Herrenbrueck said there was nothing so far in Lubitz's "personal and professional life that can enable us to say anything about his motive".
There had been some media reports that Lubitz had problems with his vision, possibly a detached retina.
But Mr Herrenbrueck said the documentation showed Lubitz suffered "no organic diseases".