German officials make progress in the profiling of Andreas Lubitz

As a video emerges of the co-pilot of the ill-fated Germanwings jet, officials say they are making progress in piecing together his background one week after the tragedy. In news likely to fuel debate about how airlines screen and monitor pilots, German prosecutors say Andreas Lubitz was treated for suicidal tendencies years before receiving his pilot's licence. One commentator writing in a leading German paper has described the tragedy as the country's 9/11 in terms of the way that people are dealing with it. Prosecutors say they believe Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board, after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. Victims' families are being warned they might have to wait months for the bodies of their loved ones to be identified. Colonel Francois Daoust at the Forensic Science Institute of the French Gendarmerie said: "Depending on the number of bodies and fragments of bodies found, the delay could vary between a minimum of two and four months." The plane crashed into a mountain in the French Alps while en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. Relatives of two Australian citizens who died are the latest to pay their respects to their loved ones at the crash site memorial in the town of Seynes-les-Alpes.



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