https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150506/crash-co-pilot-tested-dive-on-trip-out Wed, 06 May 2015 10:08:44 +0200 crash-co-pilot-tested-dive-on-trip-out 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150430/germawings-co-pilot-hid-depression-for-license Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:18:44 +0200 germawings-co-pilot-hid-depression-for-license 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150429/lufthansa-scarred-forever-by-germanwings-crash Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:41:06 +0200 lufthansa-scarred-forever-by-germanwings-crash 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150402/germanwings-4u9525-haltern-mourns-its-lost-children Thu, 02 Apr 2015 10:50:37 +0200 germanwings-4u9525-haltern-mourns-its-lost-children 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150401/germanwings-4u9525-lufthansa-promises-long-term-crash-help Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:52:18 +0200 germanwings-4u9525-lufthansa-promises-long-term-crash-help 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150331/germanwings-crash-4u9525-insurers-plan-279m-payout Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:29:00 +0200 germanwings-crash-4u9525-insurers-plan-279m-payout A spokesman for prosecutors in Düsseldorf 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150330/prosecutor-no-evidence-lubitz-had-eye-impairment Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:41:50 +0200 prosecutor-no-evidence-lubitz-had-eye-impairment 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150327/germanwings-co-pilot-hid-illness Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:43:07 +0100 germanwings-co-pilot-hid-illness 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150327/germanwings-4u9252co-pilot-had-serious-depressive-episode Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:47:50 +0100 germanwings-4u9252co-pilot-had-serious-depressive-episode 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150327/germanwings-4u9525-town-flocks-to-mourn-lost-schoolchildren Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:24:38 +0100 germanwings-4u9525-town-flocks-to-mourn-lost-schoolchildren Germans again took a few moments on Thursday to remember those killed in the Germanwings flight 4U9525 plane crash on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150326/germanwings-crash-4u9525-minute-of-silence-for-4u9525-victims Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:18:14 +0100 germanwings-crash-4u9525-minute-of-silence-for-4u9525-victims Flags flew at half mast across Germany on Wednesday in memory of the people killed in Tuesday's crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525. https://www.thelocal.de/20150325/4u9525-germanwings-mourning-flags-at-half-mast-germany Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:07:43 +0100 4u9525-germanwings-mourning-flags-at-half-mast-germany 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150325/4u9525-germanwings-german-cops-lawyers-join-crash-probe Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:46:38 +0100 4u9525-germanwings-german-cops-lawyers-join-crash-probe Update: School officials and local politicians in Haltern spoke of their grief in losing pupils and colleagues at a press conference on Wednesday morning. https://www.thelocal.de/20150325/germanwings-4u9525-haltern-pupils-mourn-lost-classmates Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:30:16 +0100 germanwings-4u9525-haltern-pupils-mourn-lost-classmates Update: Germanwings said on Wednesday morning that only one flight had to be cancelled on Wednesday after a wave of cancellations on Tuesday evening. https://www.thelocal.de/20150325/germanwings-cancels-wednesday-flights Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:05:12 +0100 germanwings-cancels-wednesday-flights 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150325/merkel-to-visit-airbus-crash-site Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:22:00 +0100 merkel-to-visit-airbus-crash-site