A desperate final email from Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz has revealed his fear of going blind, before slamming the A320 jet into the French Alps on March 24th last year, killing all 149 people on board.

An email sent by Lubitz to his doctor two weeks before the crash has been published by German newspaper “Bild”.

In the email, he said: ‘I am afraid to go blind and I can’t get this possibility out of my head.’

After the crash it was revealed that Lubitz was suffering from depression and loss of vision and he feared that he could lose his job due to his condition.

The email also revealed that he was taking high doses of Mirtazapine, an anti-depressant drug which is also used to induce sleep.

Lubitz was writing that the increased medication was making him more restless and made him panic about his vision complaining also that he was bothered about the permanent tension he felt in his eyes.

He wrote to his therapist: ‘If it wasn’t for the eyes, everything would be fine.’

After the plane crash it was revealed that Lubitz had consulted 41 different doctors over the last five years and he was suffering from severe depression which almost led to him to commit suicide a few years before.