The co-pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in the French Alps may have "rehearsed"
steering the plane into a rapid descent on an earlier flight, Bild reported on Wednesday.
The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) issued Germanwings flight 4U9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz with a pilot's license despite a previous false declaration that he had no mental health problems.
Shareholders of German airline Lufthansa observed a minute's silence at the start of their annual meeting Wednesday for the 150 people who died in the Germanwings crash last month.
Haltern's St. Sixtus church was full to overflowing on Wednesday evening, as people flocked to mourn the group of schoolchildren the town lost in the Germanwings flight 4U9525 crash.
On a visit to the Germanwings flight 4U9525 crash site in France, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said that the company will do its utmost to help relatives of victims and local people near the crash site.
Insurers are setting aside €279 million in provisions for the air crash in the French Alps that killed 150 people, German airline Lufthansa said on Tuesday.
A spokesman for prosecutors in DĂĽsseldorf said on Monday that Germanwings flight 4U9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies in the years before obtaining his pilot's license.
Germanwings said on Friday that it had no knowledge of a doctor-signed sick note found by investigators at flight 4U9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's flat.
Update: Police said they had no "smoking gun" after a search of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's home, after tabloid Bild reported on Friday that Lubitz received treatment for a “serious depressive episode” during a break in his training six years ago.
President Joachim Gauck arrived in Haltern on Friday to join families and schoolchildren mourning the loss of their classmates and teachers in the Germanwings flight 4U9525 crash.
State prosecutors from DĂĽsseldorf and federal police forensics experts are on their way to France to join in the investigation into crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525.
Update: School officials and local politicians in Haltern spoke of their grief in losing pupils and colleagues at a press conference on Wednesday morning.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will join French President Francois Hollande and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in the French Alps on Wednesday at the site where a Germanwings A320 travelling from Barcelona to DĂĽsseldorf crashed on Tuesday morning.