The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps last week had been treated in the past for suicidal tendencies, German state prosecutors have said.
"Several years ago, before obtaining his pilot's licence, the co-pilot was in a long period of psychotherapeutic treatment with noticeable suicidal tendencies," the prosecutors' office in Duesseldorf said.
Andreas Lubtiz lived in Duesseldorf, which is where the flight from Barcelona was heading.
The prosecutors' office added that since then he had not shown any signs of suicidal behaviour or aggressive tendencies towards others in visits to doctors.
Meanwhile, French investigators hope to speed up identification of the 150 people killed in the crash by digging a road track that will allow direct access to the disaster zone high on a remote Alpine mountainside.
Earthmovers are ploughing a track to the remote crash area that should be completed by tomorrow or Wednesday.
The Germanwings flight crashed last Tuesday, breaking up on impact and leaving not a single body intact, according to police working at the scene.
Body parts with 78 different DNA prints have so far been discovered.
Up to now, a team of around 15 military police with the task of combing through debris have had to be helicoptered into the rocky Alpine ravine or make their way there on foot.
However, bad weather has hampered helicopter drops, slowing the process.
The second of the plane's "black box" flight recorders has yet to be found.
It is hoped that will build on the information from a first flight recorder which is what led judicial investigators to believe the plane was deliberately driven into the mountainside by Mr Lubitz.
Last minutes of ill-fated Germanwings plane
Australia adopts 'rule of two' for cockpits
Australian airlines must ensure that two crew are on the flight deck at all times, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said this morning in response to the Germanwings disaster.
Investigators believe Lubitz locked his captain out of the cockpit of Flight 4U 9525 and deliberately steered the Airbus A320 into a French mountainside last week.
"The government has been in discussion with the airlines over the last couple of days and there has been an agreement that airlines in Australia will move immediately to adjust their flight operation procedures to ensure that there are always two people on the flight deck," Mr Truss told reporters.
"The airlines will be acting immediately to implement this change and we'd expect to see this policy in place within hours on our major airlines."
Last week the European Aviation Safety Agency recommended that at least two people be present in the cockpit of planes at all times following the loss of Flight 4U 9525, which French officials say appears to have been a case of suicide and mass killing.
Many European airlines have since moved to implement the so-called "rule of two" which is already standard in the United States, while Canada has also ordered its airlines to impose the regulation.
In Australia, Mr Truss said the new arrangement would apply to all aircraft which can seat 50 people or more, and would mean that a flight attendant must sit in the cockpit if one of the pilots needed to leave the flight deck for any reason.
"There are now quite a number of cases, perhaps more than a dozen over the last 30 or 40 years, which are thought to be aircraft crashes resulting from pilot suicide," Mr Truss said.
"It's very, very difficult to intervene in all of these circumstances because they are different in every case but we certainly need to be sure that we're taking every possible step to make sure there isn't an incident of this nature in Australia and that global aviation is as safe as possible."
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