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• MH370 debris exposes divisions over air crash investigations

  Air crash investigators risk being sidelined in a tussle to unlock the secrets of lost flight MH370, fuelling concerns that their role in making flying safer could be diminished.

• Malaysia says almost certain debris found off Madagascar is from a Boeing 777

  Malaysia is "almost certain" that plane debris found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is from a Boeing 777, the deputy transport minister said on Thursday, heightening the possibility it could be wreckage from missing Flight MH370.

• Germanwings pilot rehearsed crash on outbound flight

  The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a jet in the French Alps rehearsed the fatal maneuver on the morning of the disaster, and had twice been refused medical papers needed to fly, investigators said on Wednesday.

• Germanwings co-pilot increased speed as jet went down

  The pilot at the controls of a Germanwings jet that crashed in the French Alps accelerated the plane into the mountainside, killing all 150 people on board, according to French investigators.

• Psychological profiling, doors focus of French Germanwings probe

  French air accident authority BEA said its probe into the Germanwings crash would study "systemic weaknesses" that might have led to the disaster, such as psychological profiling and cockpit door locks.

• Recording shows pilot locked out of crashed Airbus cockpit: NYT

  Voice recordings from the German jet that crashed in the Alps showed one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not get back in before the plane went down, killing all 150 onboard, the New York Times reported.