'AAIB preliminary report was more detailed than most people were expecting.'
The story behind the horrific crash of the Lufthansa's Germanwings airbus that claimed the lives of 150 people onboard could take some more time to unravel.
French air investigators are examining one of the black boxes of the doomed Germanwings plane to find out why the aircraft crashed into a mountain in the French Alps, killing the 150 people on board.
Investigators have ended their search for bodies in the Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all 150 people on board, a local official said on Saturday.
Evidence from a cockpit voice recorder, retrieved from the crash site in the French Alps, indicated that one pilot left the cockpit before the plane's descent and was unable to get back inside, The New York Times reports.
Here's what we know about Andreas Lubitz Lubitz, co-pilot of doomed Airbus plane.
Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who deliberately crashed Flight 9525, was once suffering from depression; had confessed to 'burnout'
The remains of all those killed when a Germanwings jetliner slammed into the French Alps have now been identified.
A leaked transcript of Flight 9525's final terrifying minutes reveal Captain Patrick Sondheimer's desperate attempts to stop Andreas Lubitz from apparently sending the plane into a death-dive killing himself and the 149 people aboard.
New reports have suggested that the captain of the Germanwings plane had yelled at the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to open the door of the cockpit as he tried to use a crowbar to force his way into the cockpit during the horrific descent.
"Thank you for taking me home. Thank you for doing so safely.," says a passenger in a heartfelt note to a pilot.
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have deliberately crashed the plane after he was left alone in the cockpit, according to a French prosecutor.
The co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps was classified as suicidal "several years ago" but had appeared more stable of late, German prosecutors said.
As fitness screening for pilots after the recent Germanwings crash come under scanner, mid-term psychometric tests for pilots of Indian air carriers are being mulled by the government to detect any cockpit crew who are too mentally ill to fly.
According to reports, a Germanwings Airbus A320 has crashed in French Alps near the Digne region in France.
Some 30-odd co-pilots were being "forced to work overtime" without any remuneration.
DGCA panel has proposed tests be conducted even before a candidate is inducted into a flying training institute
The airline might find it difficult to fill posts.
The incident took place when an Air India flight from Jaipur was readying to take off for Delhi on Sunday evening.
Govt is mulling an increased scrutiny of airline pilots' mental state.
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Media reports have said that the Germanwings co-pilot who crashed his Airbus in the French Alps had told his ex-girlfriend that "one day everyone will know my name."
The precaution was made compulsory after a incident.
Strikes by pilots have already cost Lufthansa 130 million euros so far this year.
The eighth strike this year by the pilots over retirement benefits forced Germany's largest airline to cancel more than 1,500 flights on Monday.
These measures follow the Germanwings crash last month.
Pilots represented by union Vereinigung Cockpit were holding a strike at Munich airport, Lufthansa's second biggest airport after Frankfurt, from 0800-1600 GMT on Wednesday.
Brazil inflicted France's first defeat since the World Cup when a perfectly executed second-half performance earned them a 3-1 win in a friendly game at the Stade de France on Thursday.
Air India did not respond to email queries.
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