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Lufthansa's growing woes

Airline faces more trouble on admitting that it was aware of pilot's history of depression

Published Thu, Apr 2, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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    Frankfurt

    LUFTHANSA was supposed to be celebrating the 60th anniversary of its postwar rebirth this month.

    Instead, on Wednesday, the day of that anniversary, the German airline faced perhaps the worst crisis in its history after admitting that it was aware that the co-pilot who deliberately crashed one of its planes in the French Alps last week, killing himself and the other 149 people on board, had a history of severe depression.

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