Mass-killer co-pilot had to STOP training because he was was suffering depression and 'burn-out'...

[Surya Gayatri]

Police investigating the Germanwings crash said tonight they had made a 'significant discovery' at the home of pilot Andreas Lubitz, who deliberately ploughed the Airbus A320 into the French Alps.

Officers refused to reveal details of the potential breakthrough but said it was not a suicide note.

Speaking outside the flat on the outskirts of Dusseldorf, police said they had 'found something' that would now be taken for tests, adding it may be a 'clue' as to what happened to the doomed jet.

German detectives were also pictured carrying evidence from a £400,000 home in Montabaur, a town 40 miles from Bonn, that Lubitz is believed to have shared with his parents.

The 28-year-old is understood to have split his time between the two addresses.

The forensic find comes hours after it emerged that Lubitz was forced to postpone his pilot training in 2008 because of mental health problems, with a friend saying he was 'in depression'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012053/Andreas-Lubitz-Germanwings-flight-9525-French-alps-crash-French-alps-Germanwings-plane-crash-Airbus-A320-Barcelonnette.html

He had obviously been thinking about and planning this. They say that he was clever enough to put the plane into a controlled descent rather that a steep dive.

That action kept the crew and passengers from realizing exactly what was happening until the very last moments.

[Trillo]

1. How sad.

[undeterred]

2. I don't know if depression and burnout 7 years ago

is necessarily a good predictor of this type of behavior.

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Did the recent industrial tension between Lufthansa

and the pilots' union destablize him, push an already vulnerable personality over the edge?

[HereSince1628]

4. Depression is VERY common. It is perhaps the most common thing pushing people to therapy

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It's really impossible to know if something that is in the person's past is actually a CURRENT problem which underlies a desire for suicide plus mass murder.

Satistically suicide plus mass murder is quite unusual. Going there first is rather like hearing hoof beats and going past Zebras to think Opaki.

It also requires reliance on beliefs about depression that are usually wrong and in this context are stigmatizing by suggesting that past difficulty with depression makes a person a risk for murder.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Big catch-22 situation for professional pilots. If they seek help

for mental problems, they may automatically be declared unfit to fly.

Major disincentive to seek medical assistance until the sufferer cracks and goes postal.

[uppityperson]

5. Je suis si triste et désolé.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Moi aussi, quand je pense aux familles et proches des victimes...

Quel horreur !

Dans la presse française, on parle maintenant de 'meurtrier' et non de 'suicidaire'.

[uppityperson]

7. Il a été une année difficile, pour la France. Le Pen. Charles Hebdo. Meurtres d'avion

Life is difficult enough to have people doing such awful things to each other.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this investigation and just so sad.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Wow, yeah, just one damn thing after another...

He is now being called a mass-murderer all over the European press.

I have really been impressed by the highly professional and expeditious handling of the situation by the French search and rescue teams, and especially by the Special Prosecutor from Marseille.

[CTyankee]

9. It seems to me that if someone is suffering from this kind of depression, there

should be more treatment and other supports given before letting them co-pilot a commercial aircraft. A rest, a time-out, time to sort this through and let the person go through some therapy and healing time would be a good start.

But of course, you never can be sure of the devils in people's minds...I guess you can't guard against everything or no one with any past psychological problems would ever be hired. That is so, so sad...

[Surya Gayatri]

11. I suspect that Lufthansa is revising their "fit to fly"

check list as we speak. And many other airlines as well.

[undeterred]

14. Its a lot simpler to change the rules about

letting one person be alone in the cockpit. It should never happen.

[Surya Gayatri]

15. Agree, that's a given, but still better to keep potential

'postal' nutjobs out of the cockpit all together.

[OKNancy]

12. Just a wild guess about what they found...

Maybe something to do with his health. A terminal disease or something like that????

[Surya Gayatri]

13. As the French Special Prosecutor said, 'no hypothesis can be ruled out'...

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. something they took "for tests".....

What on earth would that be

[Richard D]

17. I wonder the same thing

Unmarked pills? Drugs?