Lucianne has two articles up now on the front page alluding to the depression during flight training. Discrepancy in the year of leave from flight training, whether it was 08 or 09, I’ve read it both ways, but evidence leads to depression for the moment.
Whether it was made known to the flight trainers or anyone else, I don’t know. I didn’t read through all of it.
It was when he was 21 and had just started that he had the “breakdown,” so that would have been in 2006 or so (he was 28 at the time he brought down the plane).
They retested him and readmitted him to the training.
Please check the linked image and tweet.
The pilot was no doubt a moslem.
Also interesting is that his family lived in Marseilles (tons of moslems there) and immediately left after the crash. I did not read whether authorities knew where they had gone or not.