Germanwings Pilot Tragedy Prompts Calls for Mental Health Reform
French investigators are calling for mental health reform after news that a German pilot who flew a jetliner into a mountain in the Alps last year was on anti-depressants.
Andreas Lubitz, 27, was the co-pilot of the plane. He locked his captain out of the cockpit and flew Germanwings Flight 9525 into the mountainside almost exactly a year ago.
All 150 people on board were killed.
Lubitz had mental health and physical problems, and consulted dozens of doctors.
One of them prescribed anti-depressants, including one whose side effects can include suicidal tendencies.
He didn't report any of that to the airline -- and neither did the doctors because of Germany's strict medical confidentiality laws.
Now French investigators looking into the crash say those laws must change.