Co-pilot apparently concealed disease – STAR

D He may conceal a co-pilot of the crashed German Wings machine has an illness to the employer and in their professional environment. In the searches of his apartments were “Documents on medical issues” ensures that indicate an existing medical condition and appropriate medical treatments, such as the prosecutor told Dusseldorf. Here are including “torn, current, and also the Tattag extensive sick leave” has been found that “preliminary review” the adoption of support that the deceased was his illness secret to the employer and the professional field. “

The co-pilot of the German Wings machine has been on sick leave on the crash. When searching his apartment “torn, current, and also the Tattag extensive sick leave found” were, as the prosecutor Dusseldorf announced. This support preliminary Review the assumption that the 27-year-old had his illness secret from his employer and his professional environment.

a suicide note or a letter of confession, investigators found during the search of apartments in Dusseldorf and Montabaur not. Also, no evidence of a political or religious background of the events would have occurred on the crash.

“But documents were seized medical content that indicate an existing disease and appropriate medical treatment” said the prosecutor. Interviews and analysis of medical records will therefore take some more days.

The German Wings Airbus A320 was wrecked on the way from Barcelona to Dusseldorf on Tuesday morning in the French Alps. According to the French investigators of the co-pilot controlled the machine apparently intentionally in the disaster.

Meanwhile, showed the mayor of Montabaur, the home town of the co-pilot, horrified by the disaster and the charges against the 27-year-olds. “We here in Montabaur are deeply concerned,” said the mayor of the municipality, Edmund Schaaf (CDU). The crash was a “terrible tragedy”. Among the allegations against Andreas L., he had brought the aircraft to crash deliberately, “we can and will give an opinion,” Schaaf stressed. He referred to the investigating authorities.

“Regardless of whether the allegations against the co-pilot are true or not, we feel sorry for his family,” Schaaf said. He also asked to be considerate of the members.

President Joachim Gauck begged for a funeral service in the Westphalian farmers for the people killed in the German Wings crash students and teachers of the local school the importance cohesion with the Trauernden.Indem we are to each other, the result is something infinite precious, namely, a band of compassion and Mittrauerns “Gauck said after the service in holders. He had” want to be part of this precious book “.

This band connect people to each other, “the other alone can not in distress and disasters,” said the President. He has also directed a few words to the students and the mourners. He had to bring not only “human heart” want, but also the message of the President, “that we can not use all the suffering, but that we have arms and hands and heart to help where we can do it.” The mourners should closeness and solidarity are shown.

He had been sitting in the midst of people “who have lost the dearest,” Gauck said of the non-public worship. He had heard the sobs of the people.

The aviation psychologist Reiner Kemmler demanded that in pilot training had to be even more deals with the psychological situation of the pilots in the future. “I would want to insist that the selection correspond to permanent, modern requirements must,” said Kemmler in the Hessischer Rundfunk.

This would also include educationally and psychologically trained instructors belong. The requirement for regular psychological tests for active pilots he sees the other hand, critical. These could be signs of disease deliberately downplay or hide them because otherwise threatened with loss of license.