Tag: French Alps air disaste

• Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 09:37 UTC

  Germanwings pilot was under medical treatment but hid his condition

  

  The pilot who crashed a plane in the French Alps had received a sick note from doctors showing he suffered a health condition that would have prevented him flying the day of the crash, which he apparently hid from his employer, German prosecutors said.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

  Germany and Spain mourn the loss 150 people in air crash in the French Alps

  

  Hundreds turned out in the western German town of Haltern am See to mourn 16 students and two teachers lost in Tuesday’s Germanwings crash in the French Alps. The Airbus A320 crashed en route to Dusseldorf from Barcelona, likely killing all 150 on board, in what would be the worst air accident on French soil in three decades. Spain declared three days of national mourning.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 07:53 UTC

  An air crash in 1953 was only a kilometer away from Germanwings tragedy

  

  Germanwings tragedy in which 150 people were killed happened strikingly close to another French Alps air disaster, more than half a century ago. The air crash in 1953 unfolded only one kilometer away in the rocky summits of the mountain range of very difficult access.