Father of opera singer killed in Germanwings crash to sue co-pilot's doctor
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 @ 10:50 AM
A FATHER and grandfather of two of the victims of the Germanwings air crash which killed all the passengers and crew has filed legal action against the doctor treating co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who locked himself into the cockpit and brought the plane down.
The craft, which was flying to Düsseldorf in northern Germany from Barcelona, was deliberately crashed in the French Alpes by Lubitz, who was suicidal after learning his eye condition – a detached retina – would probably mean an end to his career ambitions of becoming captain on long-haul flights with Germanwings' parent company, Lufthansa.
A German citizen, 61, whose daughter – the famous opera singer Maria Radner – and grandson, Frau Radner's 18-month-old baby lost their lives in the air disaster says Lubitz's doctor had an 'exhaustive clinical history' of the co-pilot's psychiatric problems and suicidal tendencies and was therefore fully aware of his condition on the day he brought down the plane killing all 150 on board.
Maria Radner's father's solicitors say Lubitz's doctor did not inform air security authorities, nor the airline itself, of her patient's problems – and in situations like this, the principle of professional confidentiality does not apply, since adhering to it could put the patient himself, and others, in danger.
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