CO-PILOT OF GERMANWINGS FLIGHT 4U 9525: SICK NOTE WAS NOT SUBMITTED TO GERMANWINGS

COLOGNE/BONN – Currently there is media coverage that the co-pilot of flight 4U 9525 was given a sick note for the day of the accident on Tuesday. Germanwings declares that a sick note for this day was not submitted to the company.

This corresponds to the insights of the senior prosecutor of Dusseldorf. According to these insights, “a torn-up current sick note, also valid for the day of the incident” was found in the co-pilot’s documents. According to the prosecutor’s statement, this “would - according to preliminary evaluation - support the assumption that the deceased had concealed his illness towards his employer and his occupational environment.”

Cologne/Bonn, 27th March 2015