German prosecutors said on Monday that they had closed a criminal probe into the Germanwings plane crash in March 2015 after concluding that the suicidal co-pilot bore sole responsibility for the disaster that killed all on board.
Relatives whose loved ones died last year when a Germanwings pilot deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps filed a wrongful death suit on Wednesday against the US flight school that trained him.
Families of the victims of last year's Germanwings crash deliberately caused by a suicidal co-pilot expressed outrage on Monday after his parents placed a heartfelt newspaper announcement in his
memory.
A year after the Germanwings plane crash caused by a suicidal co-pilot, French investigators are still wrestling with a complex manslaughter probe involving interested parties from some 20 countries.
Six hundred people will gather in
a tiny village in the French Alps Thursday to mark one year since their loved ones died when a Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed his plane into the mountainside.
Hundreds of people in Spain and Germany took part in anniversary vigils on Wednesday to mark the loss of the Germanwings airliner which a suicidal pilot crashed into an alpine mountain, killing all 150 on board.
The grief of families who lost loved ones when a suicidal co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps has long turned to anger, a year after the tragedy that claimed 150 lives.
The French probe into the Germanwings plane crashed into a mountainside by the co-pilot said Sunday "clearer rules" are required on when medical confidentiality can be lifted if pilots are found to have psychological issues.
As the one year anniversary of the Germanwings disaster approaches, the German school which lost 16 students is hoping another language exchange can help to heal the wounds.
Families of Germans killed in the crash of a Germanwings jet in the French Alps have turned down the airline's compensation offer, demanding a higher amount of at least €100,000, their lawyer said on Saturday.
Europe's aviation watchdog recommended changes on Friday, including that two people be present in plane cockpits at all times, after a lone rogue pilot reportedly deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in March, killing all 150 people on board.
Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who prosecutors allege deliberately crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525 in March, searched for a deadly cocktail of drugs on the internet, prosecutors in Düsseldorf confirmed on Friday.
The co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525 had seen "dozens" of doctors in the two years before, state prosecutors said on Monday.
Investigators have identified the remains of all 150 people aboard a Germanwings flight that was deliberately crashed into the French Alps, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, allowing them finally to be laid to rest.
The co-pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in the French Alps may have "rehearsed"
steering the plane into a rapid descent on an earlier flight, Bild reported on Wednesday.
Some 1,500 people attended a memorial service Monday at Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia Cathedral, and paid homage to the 150 people killed in last month's Germanwings plane crash.
Over 1,000 people are expected to attend a memorial service to the victims of Germanwings flight 9525 in Barcelona’s iconic cathedral on Monday evening, just over a month after the disaster.
Hundreds of bereaved relatives and world leaders gathered in Cologne on Friday for a memorial service for the victims of last month's Germanwings crash.
Doctors at Lufthansa had recommended that pilot Andreas Lubitz, suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps, be given psychological treatment after he suffered a bout of depression, a German newspaper has reported.
German aviation industry doctors said Tuesday that pilots should undergo more extensive medical checks in the wake of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps that killed 150 people.
The European Aviation Safety Agency had voiced concerns over Germany's "non-conformity" with air safety rules before the Germanwings air crash which killed 150 people, especially on air crew health monitoring, a spokesman told AFP Saturday.
UPDATED: Information from the second black box of the doomed Germanwings' flight shows that the co-pilot increased the speed of the aircraft as it headed towards the French Alps.
Germanwings flight 4U9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who reportedly intentionally crashed the plane carrying 149 other people, searched for information about suicide methods and cockpit door security systems online, German prosecutors said on Thursday.
