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1st LD: Hospital confirms Germanwings co-pilot was patient

Xinhua, March 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

A hospital in Duesseldorf said on Friday that the co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings A320 flight on Tuesday had been a patient there in the last two months.

The University Hospital of Duesseldorf said in a statement that Andreas Lubitz, who was identified by French prosecutor as the co-pilot in the crashed Germanwings 4U9525 flight, visited the hospital as a patient in February 2015 and his last visit was on March 10, 2015.

The hospital said Lubitz was receiving a diagnosis evaluation, but refused to disclose more details.

It also denied previous media reports that the co-pilot was suffering from depression. Endit