Germanwings pilot saw 7 doctors in month before crash: prosecutor

A Germanwings pilot who ploughed his plane into the French Alps saw 41 doctors in five years, seven of them in the month before the crash, a prosecutor said Thursday in Paris.

Speaking after a meeting with some 200 relatives of the victims in the French capital, prosecutor Brice Robin also announced the probe into the crash was being expanded to see if anyone could be held liable for manslaughter.

Grieving relatives were shown three different reconstructions of what had happened in the cockpit on their trip to Paris to seek answers about the doomed flight, said the head of a disaster support group who attended the meeting.

“The French penal code forbids me from opening a judicial enquiry for murder because the perpetrator is dead,” explained Robin at a press conference.

Investigators say that 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally downed the plane en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on March 24.

He is known to have suffered severe depression and the disaster has cast a spotlight on how airline companies monitor the health of their pilots.................

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