A Facebook post describing how a Germanwings pilot personally reassured his passengers of their safety on a flight on Wednesday has received over quarter of a million likes.
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.
UPDATED: The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings plane refused to open the cockpit door and seemed to "want to destroy the plane", a French prosecutor has said. DPA reported police are investigating his home.
The discovery that the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight is suspected of deliberately crashing the plane will inevitably raise questions about security on airplanes, but is it really possible to prevent a pilot from committing mass murder-suicide?
French air investigators confirmed on Wednesday that they have succeeded in extracting a "usable" audio file from the cockpit recorder in which voices can be heard.
State prosecutors from Düsseldorf 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 Düsseldorf crashed on Tuesday morning.
An airbus A320 carrying 150 people crashed in the southern French Alps on Tuesday morning, in what has been described as one of the worst plane disasters in the country. Here’s what we know so far about the crash.
Emergency services have resumed their search for a missing German pilot after a plane crash in Lake Vättern, Sweden, with authorities fearing for the man's life.
Four people are dead after a small airplane crashed into a forest near Bielefeld in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police there reported on Monday.
At least one German was among the 103 people killed when a passenger plane crashed in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, authorities announced late Wednesday.