A hospital in Duesseldorf, Germany denied previous media reports that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was suffering from depression.
The University Hospital of Duesseldorf issued a statement saying Lubitz visited the hospital as a patient in February 2015, with his last visit recorded on March 10, 2015.
The hospital admitted Lubitz, who was identified by French prosecutor as the co-pilot in the crashed Germanwings 4U9525 flight, was receiving diagnosis evaluation. The hospital, however, refused to provide more details.
“Reports that Andreas Lubitz was treated in our hospital for depression are incorrect,” the hospital statement read.
It also handed medical records over to the Duesseldorf prosecutor and vowed to support the investigation.
“We will support the investigation by the prosecutor strongly and unreservedly,” said Klaus Hoeffken, hospital’s chief executive said.
Reports that Lubitz was suffering from depression came after investigators found torn-up sick leave note in the co-pilot’s residence in the western German city.
The sick leave note was valid for the day the crash happened.
Documents containing medical information that “indicates an existing disease and appropriate medical treatment” were also among the findings in the co-pilot’s home.
The prosecutor made the assumption that the co-pilot “concealed his illness towards his employer and his occupational environment.”
Lubitz appeared to have deliberately crashed the plane in the southern French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
On Friday, Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, said it had started to offer financial assistance to relatives of victims in the crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525.
A spokesman said relatives of each victim, including passenger and crew member, would get up to 50,000 euros (54,440 U.S. dollars) for “immediate help.”