Germanwings Crash Investigators Sorting Through Physical and Psychological Clues - NYT
Germanwings Crash Investigators Sorting Through Physical and Psychological Clues Monday March 30 th , 2015 at 3:40 PM 1 Share DÜSSELDORF, Germany — As aviation experts in the French Alps piece together the shattered fragments of the Germanwings jetliner that crashed there on Tuesday, investigators here are engaged in a task that is at least as challenging: trying to understand what drove Andreas Lubitz, who was at the controls, to the apparent decision to fly the plane into a mountainside. In what amounts to one of the most high-profile cases to date of forensic psychiatry, French and German investigators must not only piece together the strands of Mr. Lubitz’s professional and personal lives, they must also try to determine what was going on inside his head before and during the fateful flight on Tuesday. Five days after the crash, the investigators have three main lines of inquiry: his apparent depression ; a problem with his eyesight tha