SKY News: The US Federal Aviation Administration issued Lubitz a third-class medical certificate which meant that he had been cleared of psychological problems including psychosis, bipolar disorder and personality disorder that was “severe enough to have repeatedly manifested itself by overt acts”. The certificate also means that he wasn’t found to be suffering from another mental health condition that would have made him “unable to safely perform the duties or exercise the privileges” of a pilot’s licence.
Just looking at the available pics of the guy he exhibits a physical characteristic that, in my experience, always predicts trouble. He would not have been hired in my shop to operate power machinery, let alone, get into a 90 million dollar cockpit. From the sound of the weasel Lufthansa guy It seems the Luftwaffe is willing to shade the rules, and their judgement, to get pilots. Just too dam bad the jerkopf had to take a bunch of people with him.