Germanwings A320 Crash

smurfjed

Final Report
Accident on 24 March 2015
at Prads-Haute-Bléone (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France)
to the Airbus A320-211

Page 33 states:

1.13.2 Results of post-mortem toxicological examinations
Toxicological examinations of the co-pilot’s human tissue found at the accident
site were conducted by the French judicial authorities. The presence of citalopram
and mirtazapine, which are two antidepressant medications, as well as of zopiclone,
which is a sleeping-aid medication was detected.

So which Post mortem hairtest and blood test. are you talking about?

Austrian Simon

smurfjed wrote: »

Final Report
Accident on 24 March 2015
at Prads-Haute-Bléone (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France)
to the Airbus A320-211

Page 33 states:

1.13.2 Results of post-mortem toxicological examinations
Toxicological examinations of the co-pilot’s human tissue found at the accident
site were conducted by the French judicial authorities. The presence of citalopram
and mirtazapine, which are two antidepressant medications, as well as of zopiclone,
which is a sleeping-aid medication was detected.

So which Post mortem hairtest and blood test. are you talking about?

The final results by the states attorney of Dusseldorf. The post mortem hairtest is described in my story, the related quotes are there too.

I am not going to repeat this all over again and again.

The BEA final report was released long before that (on Mar 13th 2016) and is based on disproven evidence, in particular to those health history details.

Quote of the relevant paragraph out of my coverage (which is backed by the evidence from the states attorney files):

Dusseldorf found out, that in December 2014 the first officer noticed a problem with his eyesight, his eyesight seemed discoloured (as like looking through sunglasses) and when looking into bright light sources he saw them blurred. He was concerned about his eyesight (and his medical, however, he was insured against loss of medical and would not have lost any income). Having a doctor in his family, the first officer was used to seek not only one opinion, but second opinions from multiple doctors if necessary. None of the eye doctors he visited found any organic or psychological problem that could have explained the problem with the eyes (however, none of the doctors was specialist for nerves or optic nerve and the optic nerve thus was never checked). His general practitioner took over an erroneous note into her files that he possibly had been in hospital care for depression but mistyped that information making the information appear as if it was for certain. The information was false however. The general practitioner decided, as there were no organic or psychological reasons for the eyesight problems to treat him for psychic problems on suspicion. The first officer was prescribed relevant medication. She wrote him sick as a precaution. Post mortem hair tests and the forensic toxicology confirmed that he had been taking the prescribed medication in the past, but also confirmed he was not under their influence at the time of the accident.

Nonoperational

It would be very unusual to prescribe citalopram and mitazepine together without a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Mirtazepine is usually an add on to an SSRI that would be commenced some time after the SSRI not being effective. I know this is speculation but it is worth mentioning. Of course maybe the SSRI wasn't effective because there was no depression, but that's not the way I would lean based on the drug history.