• Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz takes part in the Airport Hamburg 10-mile run on Sept. 13, 2009, in Hamburg, northern Germany, as seen in this photo released March 27. Lubitz told Lufthansa in 2009 of a 'previous episode of severe depression,' the airline reported on Tuesday. | FOTO TEAM MUELLER / AFP-JIJI
    Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz takes part in the Airport Hamburg 10-mile run on Sept. 13, 2009, in Hamburg, northern Germany, as seen in this photo released March 27. Lubitz told Lufthansa in 2009 of a "previous episode of severe depression," the airline reported on Tuesday. | FOTO TEAM MUELLER / AFP-JIJI

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BERLIN – The German pilot who crashed a plane in the French Alps last week, killing 150 people, told officials at a Lufthansa training school in 2009 that he had gone through a period of severe depression, the airline said on Tuesday.

The statement is potentially damaging for the airline and its CEO, Carsten Spohr, who told reporters last week that the carrier knew of no reason why 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz might deliberately crash a plane.

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