Germanwings co-pilot was depressed

He left no suicide note behind. But when police raided the home of Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot accused of purposely crashing Germanwings Flight 9525 into the French Alps on Tuesday, the officers did find evidence that he suffered from a mental illness, which may have led him to take the lives of 149 passengers and crew along with his own life.

Papers found at his home “support the current preliminary assessment that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and colleagues,” German prosecutor Ralf Herrenbrueck said in a statement on Friday, adding that the evidence included sick notes for the day of the crash that had been torn up. Seized medical documents also suggest “an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment,” said the prosecutor from the German city of Düsseldorf, where Lubitz reportedly had an apartment.