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| Germanwings crash: French prosecutors open new probe | Germanwings crash: French prosecutors open new probe |
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| French prosecutors have announced a preliminary investigation into whether manslaughter charges should be brought over the Germanwings plane crash. | French prosecutors have announced a preliminary investigation into whether manslaughter charges should be brought over the Germanwings plane crash. |
| It is not clear who any possible charges would target. | It is not clear who any possible charges would target. |
| All 150 people on board, mostly from Spain and Germany, died in the crash in March. | All 150 people on board, mostly from Spain and Germany, died in the crash in March. |
| Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin said there was "no doubt" that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the Airbus A320 in the French Alps. | Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin said there was "no doubt" that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the Airbus A320 in the French Alps. |
| Mr Robin said some doctors treating Lubitz felt he was unfit to fly but did not tell his employers because of German laws on patient confidentiality. | |
| He said a preliminary investigation would focus on whether the gap between what the pilot's doctors knew, and what his employers knew, points to manslaughter charges. | |
| Mr Robin said that Lubitz had seen seven separate doctors in the month before the crash - one GP, three psychologists and three eye specialists. | |
| Lubitz was troubled about problems with his eyesight and just over a week before the crash, he told one doctor he was only sleeping two hours a night and feared he was going blind. | |
| But doctors could find no "organic cause" for his failing sight, with one doctor suggesting that it might have been due to psychosis. |