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 Relatives of victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps hope to take their compensation claims against parent company Lufthansa to a US court, their lawyer said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150810/air-crash-relatives-to-sue-for-big-payout-in-us Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:28:08 +0200 air-crash-relatives-to-sue-for-big-payout-in-us Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who prosecutors allege deliberately crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525 in March, searched for a deadly cocktail of drugs on the internet, prosecutors in Düsseldorf confirmed on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150612/france-probes-manslaughter-in-germanwaings-crash Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:08:01 +0200 france-probes-manslaughter-in-germanwaings-crash The operation to clear the wreckage of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps has officially ended, French military police said on Monday. Images show the crash site, once strewn with debris, now clear of the plane's wreckage. https://www.thelocal.de/20150420/operation-to-recover-debris-from-crash-site-ends Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:25:23 +0200 operation-to-recover-debris-from-crash-site-ends These pictures show how three weeks after a Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps, the mountainside that was once strewn with wreckage and body parts has almost been cleared by investigators. https://www.thelocal.de/20150414/alps-crash-site-cleared-of-debris Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:10:06 +0200 alps-crash-site-cleared-of-debris The second black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps last week has been found after a nine-day search, prosecutors in France said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150402/second-black Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:17:43 +0200 second-black 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150326/pilot-locked-out-of-cockpit-before-germanwings-crash Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:14:17 +0100 pilot-locked-out-of-cockpit-before-germanwings-crash 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? https://www.thelocal.de/20150326/germanwings-pilot-andreas-lubitz-security-suicide-murder-questions Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:13:43 +0100 germanwings-pilot-andreas-lubitz-security-suicide-murder-questions