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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 17:36 UTC

Tag: Germanwinds

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

    Germanwings pilot was under medical treatment but hid his condition

    Reports in German media suggested that Lubitz had suffered from depression in the past, and that his employer would have been aware of his history.

    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

    Germanwings Flight 9525, operated by the low-cost subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, plunged into the mountainside following a rapid descent from cruising altitude

    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.