FAA raised concerns about mental stability of Germanwings suicide crash pilot

As Germany, the EU, and the world grapple with the horror of Andreas Lubitz plotting and carrying out a suicide crash that killed 149 innocents, a document has surfaced demonstrating that the American Federal Aviation Agency had concerns over his mental fitness.  The release of the document follows a Freedom of Information Act request on the part of news agencies.  Nicholas Kulish and Nicola Clark write in the New York Times: The Federal Aviation Administration raised questions in 2010 about whether it should grant a pilot’s license in the United States to Andreas Lubitz, who in March flew a Germanwings jetliner into a French mountainside, but was assured by his doctors in Germany that he had fully recovered from an episode of depression the year before, according to newly released documents. Lubitz required an American student pilot’s license and a valid medical certificate from a flight doctor in order to participate in Lufthansa’s flight school...(Read Full Post)