Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz sent a distressing email to his doctor before he crashed the A320 jet into the French Alps last year killing 150 people. The paranoid suicide pilot was suffering depression and sent an email to his doctor just weeks before the atrocity revealing his fear of going blind. “I am afraid to go blind… I can’t get this possibility out of my head,” Lubitz wrote. Mail Online reports: Lubitz, then 27, slammed the A320 jet into the French Alps on March 24, killing all 149 passengers and crew on board. The contents of the email he sent to his doctor two weeks before the atrocity have now finally been revealed. In the email, published by German newspaper Bild, he said: ‘I am afraid to go blind and I can’t get this possibility out of my head.’ It emerged after the crash that Lubitz was suffering from both depression and loss of vision – and feared his conditions would cost him his job as a pilot. The email revealed he was taking the highest dose of Mirtazapine, an anti-depressant which is also used as a drug to induce sleep. Lubitz, who put the plane into a steep dive [...]