The media learned about the problems with vision, the pilot of the crashed A320 – RBC

The work at the crash site Airbus A320

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The co-pilot of the aircraft Airbus A320 Andreas Lubicz before the disaster sought medical help for eye problems. This was on a Saturday newspaper reported The New York Times, citing unnamed officials familiar with the investigation.

The two sides editions assume that these problems could affect his inability to continue to work as a pilot.

While it is not clear how serious the problem was and whether it is connected with possible psychological problems of the pilot. However, the investigators did not rule out that the vision problems could be psychosomatic, the newspaper writes.

The fact that Lubicz had health problems became known after the conducted searches at his home. In the course of them was found broken medical certificate of illness that was valid on the day of the disaster. Found during the search of documents show that Lubicz was treated. In this pilot hid this information from your employer. Officially, the pilot nature of the disease is not reported.

Sources told French television channel M6 that the pilot in the house during the search were also found antidepressants. German publication Bild reported that six years ago Lubicz and a half years visited a psychiatrist for depression. Former girlfriend Ljubica in an interview with Bild reported that last year Lubicz said that he would do something “that will change the system” and “make him remember all».

Airbus A320 aircraft German loukostera Germanwings, flying flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, crashed in the French Alps on March 24. The investigation, based on data from the flight recorder after the aircraft gained cruising altitude, the commander of the crew went to the toilet and Lubicz was left alone in the cockpit. After that, the plane began to decline. When the commander came back, the door was locked, and knock Lubicz not react. After about 10 minutes of reducing the liner crashed. Attorney Marcel Brice Robin said earlier that Lubicz intentionally sent the plane into a dive and at the time of impact with the ground was alive.