Germanwings Co-pilot Had Serious Depressive Episode: Bild Newspaper

German tabloid Bild reported on Friday that The pilot who appears to have deliberately crashed a plane carrying 149 others into the French Alps received psychiatric treatment for a "serious depressive episode" six years ago. Prosecutors in France, after listening to the cockpit voice recorders, offered no motive for why Andreas Lubitz would take the controls of the Airbus A320, lock the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately set it veering down from cruising altitude at 3,000 feet per minute. Citing internal documents and Lufthansa sources, Bild said Lubitz spent a total of one and a half years in psychiatric treatment and that the relevant documents would be passed to French investigators once they had been examined by German authorities.