Airline Germanwings Airbus A320 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz hid illness March-2015

Prosecutors: Evidence Germanwings co-pilot hid illness

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain, prosecutors said Friday.

The evidence came from the search of Lubitz's homes in two German cities for an explanation of why he crashed the Airbus A320 into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

Prosecutors didn't say what type of illness — mental or physical — Lubitz may have been suffering from. German media reported Friday that the 27-year-old had received treatment for depression.

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Investigators carry boxes from the apartment of Germanwings airliner jet co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, in …

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French gendarmes and investigators make their way through debris from wreckage on the mountainside a …

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