Prosecutor: Germanwings co-pilot contacted dozens of doctors

The co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the disaster, a state prosecutor says — a revelation that suggests Andreas Lubitz was seeking advice about an undisclosed ailment. Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin, who is leading a criminal investigation into the March 24 crash that killed all 150 people on board Germanwings Flight 9525, told The Associated Press that he has received information from foreign counterparts and is going over it before a meeting with victims’ relatives in Paris next week.

Every time we see news like this it’s like another plane crash.

Robert Oliver Calvo

Prosecutors have previously said they found torn-up doctors’ notes excusing Lubitz from work at his home, including one covering the day of the crash, and that he appears to have hidden his illness from his employer and colleagues. Meanwhile, the families of 30 of the 150 people killed in the crash on Friday received long-awaited news that they will start receiving bodies next week. Others, however, will have to wait to receive remains or their loved ones’ belongings. Relatives of victims were not informed that Lubitz had seen so many doctors, said Robert Tansill Oliver, a retired American teacher living in Barcelona, whose 36-year-old son Robert Oliver Calvo died in the crash. The development, combined with news that remains of some victims can’t be sent home next week as originally planned, was “devastating, just devastating,” Oliver said in a telephone interview.

Every time we see news like this it’s like another plane crash.

Robert Tansill Oliver, whose 36-year-old son Robert Oliver Calvo died in the crash.