Lawyers

• Families of Germanwings Victims File Lawsuit Against US Flight School for Failure to properly screen pilots

  The families of the Germanwings' victims are suing the US flight school that trained the co-pilot that carshed the plane in French Alps. The suit alleged that the school failed to screen the medical history of Andreas Lubitz. They claimed the crash could have been prevented if they screen the co-pilot propoerly.

• 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.

• Cabin crew give Lufthansa deadline to avoid strike

  German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) faces a June 30 deadline to make concessions to cabin crew over pay and pensions or suffer further strikes that would compound the effects of a costly dispute with its pilots.

• IAG's British Airways quits European trade body over policy differences

  International Airlines Group (IAG) said its subsidiaries British Airways and Iberia had quit a European airline trade group after disagreeing with the policy of other members toward competition in the skies.

• 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.

• 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.

• Germanwings crash co-pilot may have had detached retina: newspaper

  The co-pilot suspected of crashing a passenger jet in the Alps may have been suffering from a detached retina but investigators are unsure whether his vision problems had physical or psychological causes, a German newspaper said on Sunday.

• 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.

• Airlines introduce two-person cockpit rule after Alps crash

  Airlines rushed on Thursday to change rules to require a second crew member in the cockpit at all times, hours after French prosecutors suggested a co-pilot who barricaded himself alone at the controls of a jetliner had crashed it on purpose.

• 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 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.

• Lufthansa pilots start third straight day of walkouts

  Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) pilots began a third straight day of walkouts on Friday, grounding 700 flights as they try to put pressure on management in a protracted row over early retirement benefits and cost cuts.

• BMW, Bosch join Deutsche Bahn in airline cartel damages claim

  German carmaker BMW and car supplier Bosch [ROBG.UL] said on Saturday they would join Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL] in two claims for about 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in damages from air freight carriers who were involved in a cartel.

• 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.