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Germanwings

The tail of a Metrojet plane that crashed in Hassana, Egypt carrying 224 people on Saturday, October 31, 2015. (Suliman el-Oteify/Egyptian Prime Minister's Office via AP)
January 5, 2016, 3:31 pm
Deliberate acts cause more airline deaths than crashes
2015 tally shows terrorist attacks trump accidental crashes as cause for most airline casualties
By Joan Lowy
Eyal Baum (photo credit: Facebook)
June 10, 2015, 1:24 am
Remains of Israeli victim in Germanwings crash to be returned for burial
Eyal Baum, 39 died when copilot of airliner deliberately brought plane down in the French Alps in March
By Stuart Winer
In this Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009 photo, Andreas Lubitz competes at the Airportrun in Hamburg, northern Germany. Germanwings co-pilot Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain, prosecutors said. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Mueller)
May 6, 2015, 6:25 pm
Germanwings pilot rehearsed descent on previous flight
Report by French investigators finds Andreas Lubitz practiced maneuver hours before suicidal crash that killed 150
By Djallal MALTI
Illustrative: An Airbus A321 cockpit. (Ercan Karakas/GNU free/Wikipedia)
April 19, 2015, 10:27 pm
‘Pilots should marry to avoid crashes’
In wake of Germanwings crash, Turkish Airlines boss encourages aviators to tie the knot to ward off depression
By ToI Staff
An Airbus 320 aircraft of Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Germanwings, at Berlin's Tegel airport August 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/DPA/STEPHANIE PILICK)
April 13, 2015, 9:28 am
Bomb threat forces evacuation of Germanwings flight
Airline receives alert while taxiing to runway at Cologne airport; sniffer dogs find no explosives
By AP
A scene from the 'Pasternak' segment of 'Wild Tales' (Photo credit: JTA)
April 4, 2015, 5:27 am
Germanwings crash echoes Argentine film
Alps tragedy’s eerie parallels with ‘Wild Tales’ by Jewish director Damian Szifron about disturbed pilot who crashes plane
By Diego Melamed
Passengers watch candles and flowers for the victims of the plane crash at the airport in Dusseldorf , Germany, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Martin Meissner)
April 1, 2015, 5:10 pm
Airline executives visit Germanwings crash site
Officials at the carrier say they knew co-pilot suffered from ‘severe depression’ during flight training
By AP and ToI Staff
A poster reading 'We grieve with all family members, who have lost their loved ones in the accident of (Germanwings) flight 4U9525,' hangs at a window in Haltern am See, western Germany on March 31, 2015 (photo credit: AFP / DPA / MARCEL KUSCH)
April 1, 2015, 8:52 am
Video said to show ‘cabin chaos’ seconds before Alps crash
French police dispute authenticity of mobile phone clip seeming to document final moments of Germanwings flight
By AFP
A helicopter of the French gendarmerie flies over Seyne-les-Alpes on March 28, 2015, near the site where a Germanwings flight crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard. photo credit: AFP/JEFF PACHOUD)
March 31, 2015, 1:57 pm
Lufthansa insurers set aside $300 million over Alps crash
Germanwings’s parent company had previously offered over $54,000 to each victim’s family
By AP
ZAKA volunteers at the site of the Germwings airliner crash in the French Alp, March 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy ZAKA)
March 31, 2015, 1:44 am
Jewish identification team reaches Alps crash site
Eight volunteers from ZAKA organization to help in recovering and returning remains of Israeli Eyal Baum
By Stuart Winer
Rescue workers (at left), work at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, on March 30, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Claude Paris, Pool)
March 30, 2015, 7:05 pm
Alps crash pilot had been treated for suicidal tendencies
Andreas Lubitz, who deliberately crashed airliner into a mountain, killing 150, had received psychotherapy treatment
By AP
An Airbus 320 aircraft of Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Germanwings, at Berlin's Tegel airport August 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/DPA/STEPHANIE PILICK)
March 30, 2015, 7:03 am
Australia mandates at least 2 people stay in cockpits
New rule comes in the wake of Germanwings crash, during which pilot was locked out by his partner
By AP
A helicopter of the French gendarmerie flies over Seyne-les-Alpes on March 28, 2015, near the site where a Germanwings flight crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard. photo credit: AFP/JEFF PACHOUD)
March 29, 2015, 11:56 pm
ZAKA rescue team heading to Germanwings crash site
Eight volunteers to help search and recovery, returning remains of Eyal Baum to Israel
By JTA
Rescue workers and Red Cross members pay tribute at a memorial for the victims of the Germanwings plane crash in Le Vernet on March 27, 2015. The Germanwings co-pilot who crashed his Airbus into the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard, hid a serious illness from the airline, prosecutors said amid reports he was severely depressed. (photo credit: AFP / BORIS HORVAT)
March 29, 2015, 11:16 am
Alps crash captain shouted ‘open the damn door’
Germany to hold national memorial ceremony for 150 victims of plane disaster deliberately caused by co-pilot
By Raphaelle LOGEROT and Kate Millar
People pay their respects at a memorial with messages, candles and flowers for the victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps can be seen at the airport in Duesseldorf on March 28, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/DPA/MARIUS BECKER)
March 29, 2015, 6:14 am
Co-pilot in crash had possibly job-crippling eye problems
Officials say Andreas Lubitz hid vision issues, which would have kept him from piloting long-haul flights, hidden from airline, along with depression
By AFP
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