Pressure is mounting on Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, over what it knew about the co-pilot before last week’s crash.<br /><br /> The airline now says that Andreas Lubitz did tell his bosses at a Lufthansa training school about a period of severe depression.<br /><br /> This puts the airline and its Chief Executive Carsten Spohr in a difficult position; he told a media conference last week that the company knew of no reason why Lubitz might have deliberately crashed the plane. <br /><br /> He said they would look at improvements, but praised the airline’s training programmes as among the best in the world.<br /><br /> Experts say the fact that Lufthansa bosses were aware that the 27-year-old suffered from depression during his training raises serious questions about the airline’s screening and monitoring processes.
