World & Nation
Just over a year after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Indian Ocean without making a distress call, the aviation world faced a new mystery Tuesday: the crash of a Germanwings jetliner in the French Alps with 150 passengers and crew members aboard.
March 24, 2015
Opinion
The chilling details of Germanwings Flight 9525’s final moments have prompted several readers to suggest ways to prevent another tragedy like the one that unfolded Tuesday over France, in which, investigators believe, the first officer steered the A320 jet into the Alps after the captain left the cockpit to use the lavatory.
March 27, 2015
The young Germanwings pilot accused of having deliberately crashed an Airbus A320 a week ago, killing all 150 people on board, had informed his flight school in 2009 of an “episode of severe depression,” Lufthansa said in a statement issued Tuesday.
March 31, 2015
The silence in the cockpit during the last eight minutes of doomed Germanwings Flight 9525 was broken only by the copilot’s even breathing.
March 26, 2015
March 28, 2015
The flight, an easy hop across Western Europe, shook off the morning drizzle in Barcelona, Spain, and rose through the clouds.
The copilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, accused of intentionally crashing the passenger jet in the French Alps and killing all 150 people aboard, searched online for information about suicide methods and cockpit door security systems, German prosecutors said Thursday.
April 2, 2015