FILE PHOTO: A screen shows a picture of Andreas Lubitz during news conference of Guenter Lubitz in Berlin, Germany, March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Three years after the Germanwings crash in which a pilot deliberately flew a jet into a mountainside, the European Commission has adopted new rules on pilot mental health requiring airlines for the first time to carry out a psychological assessment of pilots before they hire them.
Investigators have concluded that pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the Germanwings A320 jet into a French mountainside on March 24, 2015 on a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, killing all 150 people on board.
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