The account Thursday of the final moments of Germanwings Flight 9525 prompted some airlines to immediately impose stricter cockpit rules - and raised haunting questions about the motive of the co-pilot, whose breathing never wavered as he destroyed the plane and the lives of those aboard. "We...
Amid questions over what could have driven Lubitz to down the Germanwings plane, German tabloid Bild reported that the pilot, whose training included a spell at a flight school in Arizona,received psychiatric treatmentfor a "serious depressive episode" six years ago and recently had a "severe re...
Investigators evaluating voice recorder data from a black box located last week say the co-pilot apparently locked his captain out of the cockpit and deliberately slammed the plane into a French mountainside. Lubitz was diagnosed as suicidal "several years ago", before he became a pilot, b...
Deadly plane crash in French Alps31 photos Winkelmann said the pilot, whom he did not name, had more than 10 years' experience working for Germanwings and its parent airline Lufthansa. The aircraft was delivered to Lufthansa in 1991, had approximately 58,300 flight hours in some 46,700 fli...
Kurt Waldemar Tank (24 February 1898 – 5 June 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II, including the Fw 190 fighter air...
. Flying Officer John Garland was flying a Tempest of 80 Sqdn. at 1,000 feet when he spotted a 262 almost “on the deck,” apparently returning to Rheine airfield. He fired only one brief burst and saw no strikes, but the German pilot lost control in a high-speed stall and crashed....
announced that a preliminary reading of its contents confirmed that the flight’s co-pilot intentionally brought about the plane’s fatal decent. The hypothesis that the plane was intentionally crashed by its allegedly suicidal co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, had first been floated by French prosecutor Br...
Section 603 Squadron and led by Pilot Officer Caister. Seeing that the single German plane had become separated the Spitfires headed towards it with the intention of shooting it down. The bomber pilot, sensing the danger, headed out to sea only to be headed back inland by the pursuing ...
told him the wreck happened sometime in 1942 or 1943. Although the plane washed ashore later the old man said his father rescued the pilot who told him "they" had bombed a German ship or submarine although he wasn't sure of which. A few weeks later American troops arrived in Puerto Pen...
Pierre Polizzi, who owns a campsite near the crash site, told The Associated Press he heard two long noises around the time the Germanwings plane went down. French mountain rescue teams and gendarmerie arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 24, 20...