The copilot flying the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, German prosecutors said after authorities found a torn-up sick note while searching his homes.
The note for the day of the crash was signed by copilot Andreas Lubitz's doctor, the prosecutors said.
Cockpit voice recordings suggest Lubitz deliberately flew the Airbus A320 into an Alpine mountain in southern France on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board.
Ralf Herrenbrueck, a spokesperson for the German prosecutor's office, said in a written statement that documents found after a search of Lubitz's family home in the western German town of Montabaur near Frankfurt and his apartment in Duesseldorf "support the current preliminary assessment that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and colleagues."
Herrenbrueck did not give details of what illness Lubitz, 27, was suffering that had led him to be signed off work.
He said other medical documents found in police searches suggested "an ongoing illness and appropriate medical treatment," but said no suicide note was found and there was no evidence the copilot had political or religious motivations for crashing the plane.
"Torn-up current medical certificates, also relating to the day of the accident, were found, supporting, at first examination, the assumption that the deceased kept his illness from his employer and his professional circles," read the statement.
It stated that examination of the documents would take some days, but as soon as more information was available the prosecutor's office would inform families of the dead and the public.
The German tabloid Bild reported Friday that Lubitz dropped out of pilot training for months due to mental health issues and reportedly repeated flying classes several times due to depression before successfully completing pilot training.
Both Bild and the Associated Press reported that Lubitz had a SIC record – which alludes to a medical condition – with the German federal aviation administration. SIC stands for "special, regular medical examination." Officials have not disclosed the nature of his illness.
Germanwings Flight 9525 was just under halfway through its flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf when it began a rapid but controlled descent before smashing into a mountain at 435 mph.
On Thursday, French investigators said the cockpit voice recorder revealed that Lubitz had put the aircraft into descent after locking the captain, Patrick Sonderheimer, out of the flight deck and refusing to let him back in.
The 144 passengers and six crew, including Lubitz, are believed to have died instantly as the plane exploded on impact with the ground.
Sonderheimer is believed to have left the cockpit to go to the lavatory. European airlines have scrambled to introduced a "two-person" rule to ensure pilots are not left alone on the flight deck, following the tragedy.
Carsten Spohr, the head of Lufthansa, Germanwings' parent company, said Thursday that Lubitz had taken a break from his flight training in 2009 but refused to give details citing medical secrecy. It was later claimed by German media that Lubitz had taken six months off after suffering a "burn out" or depression.
Spohr told a news conference Lubitz had passed all technical, physical and psychological tests and was "100% fit to fly."
In France, air crash investigation teams continued to search for the second black box, the flight data recorder, and for the remains of the dead, who are being identified through DNA tests.
Special correspondents Willsher reported from Paris and Hassan from Berlin.
Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times7:15 a.m.: This article was updated with reports from the German tabloid Bild.
6:40 a.m.: This article has been updated throughout with new details and quotes.
The article was originally published at 5:05 a.m.
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