Germanwings crash: Lufthansa knew of co-pilot depression

LONDON. KAZINFORM - The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing his plane into the Alps had disclosed an earlier bout of depression, Lufthansa has said.

The airline, which owns Germanwings, said last week that Andreas Lubitz had taken a break from flight school training, but refused to say why, BBC News reports. It has now shared emails from 2009 which show Lubitz told instructors he had suffered from "severe depression". Meanwhile, all human remains from the crash have reportedly been recovered. French authorities told AFP news agency that the remains of all the victims had been removed from the remote ravine where the plane went down, but mountain troops would return to the scene on Wednesday to search for personal belongings. The search for the second flight recorder will also continue. Also on Tuesday, German newspaper Bild and French news magazine Paris Match said they had obtained a video showing the plane's last moments before the crash. The footage was shot on a mobile phone inside the plane, and recorded the sound of passengers screaming and the sound of a metal object striking the cockpit door, the newspapers said.

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