Lawyers

• Germanwings Crash Victims' Families Sued Lufthansa Over its Failure to Discover Pilot's Mental Illness

  The victims' families of the March Germanwings plane crash files a lawsuit against Lufthansa after the its piloty school failed to check Andreas Lubitz's medical records. Lubitz, who co-pilot the plane, committed suicide by crashing the Airbus A320 flight into the French Alps, killing 150 people on board.

• Families of Germanwings Crash Victims Determined to Sue Lufthansa in the US

  The families of the Germanwings' crash victims are pursuing a lawsuit to be filed in the U.S. against Lufthansa. The families are seeking for compensation over the death of their family members.

• 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 plane evacuated after bomb scare

  A Germanwings flight bound for Italy from Germany was evacuated late on Sunday due to a bomb threat, the airline said.

• German aviation authority: crash pilot's license in line with procedures

  Lufthansa and the German aviation authority have agreed that correct procedures were followed when Andreas Lubitz was awarded his pilot's license, the authority said on Thursday.

• EU found 'issues' with German aviation regulator

  A European regulator found "issues" with Germany's aviation authority in a regular review of air safety enforcement, the European Commission said on Saturday.

• 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.

• As many Americans fear pilot crashes as they do hijacking

  Americans fear pilots purposely crashing an airliner as much as they are afraid of a hijacking, and over a quarter are more scared of flying than they were before a copilot crashed a jet in France last week, killing 150 people, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

• Germanwings co-pilot lied to doctors about sick leave: Bild

  The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps allegedly lied to doctors, telling them he was on sick leave rather than flying commercial planes, German daily Bild reported on Thursday.

• Torn-up sick notes show crash pilot should have been grounded

  German authorities said on Friday they had found torn-up sick notes showing that the pilot who crashed a plane into the French Alps was suffering from an illness that should have grounded him on the day of the tragedy.

• German police search house of pilot who flew A320 into mountain

  A young German co-pilot locked himself alone in the cockpit of Germanwings flight 9525 and set it on course to crash into an Alpine mountain, killing all 150 people on board including himself, prosecutors said on Thursday.

• 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.

• German students, teachers weep for classmates on doomed plane

  Students and teachers at a small-town German high school broke down in tears once they realized that 16 classmates and two teachers were on board an ill-fated Germanwings airplane that crashed in France on Tuesday on a flight to Duesseldorf.

• German Airbus crashes in French Alps with 150 dead, black box found

  An Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed into a mountainside in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren.

• Germanwings Airbus crashes in France, 148 feared dead

  An Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France on Tuesday and all 148 on board were feared dead.

• Germanwings pilots start strike as Lufthansa row rumbles on

  Pilots at Lufthansa's (LHAG.DE) Germanwings started a six-hour strike on Friday, disrupting the travel plans of thousands of people returning from summer holidays, applying pressure on Lufthansa management in their dispute over a pension scheme.