article_snippet.sent: Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who purposefully crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, killing 150 people, had been treated for a psychiatric illness, it later emerged.
article_snippet.sent: If Lubitz's doctor did not alert Germanwings, it must have been because Lubitz did not seem like a threat.
article_snippet.sent: There are two arguments for why Lubitz's doctor did the right thing by not disclosing Lubitz's depression to Lubitz's doctor employer.
article_snippet.sent: In the days before the crash, Lubitz searched online both for medical treatments and for ways to commit suicide, which suggests he was undecided as to what to do.
article_snippet.sent: Lubitz's doctor also did the right thing by not revealing Lubitz's doctor depression to Germanwings because Lubitz's doctor depression was far from obviously related to Lubitz's doctor crime.
article_snippet.sent: Furthermore, given the lack of relationship between depression and the pilot's crime, it was not obviously in the public's interest to know about Lubitz's depression and morally questionable that given the sheer weight of numbers involved, you are far less likely to be harmed by a person with depression than by a person without depression medical history of depression has been exposed so freely.
article_snippet.sent: Lubitz reportedly had a sick note for the day Lubitz flew but never told Lubitz.
highlights_snippet.sent: Andreas Lubitz has since emerged Andreas Lubitz had been treated for psychiatric illness .
  