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 A microlight plane crashed into the roof of a house in western Germany on Saturday, leaving three people dead, including the mother of a young child, firefighters said. https://www.thelocal.de/20200726/three-killed-in-western-germany-as-microlight-plane-crashes-into-house Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:04:14 +0200 three-killed-in-western-germany-as-microlight-plane-crashes-into-house Germany on Tuesday banned all Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes from its airspace, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer announced, following a deadly crash in Ethiopia. https://www.thelocal.de/20190312/germany-bans-plane-model Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:02:33 +0100 germany-bans-plane-model Four people were killed on Tuesday when a small plane and a helicopter collided in southwestern Germany, police said. https://www.thelocal.de/20180123/four-killed-as-helicopter-and-plan-collide-in-southern-germany Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:20:55 +0100 four-killed-as-helicopter-and-plan-collide-in-southern-germany A German court on Wednesday gave a woman a year's suspended jail sentence for posing as the cousin of a victim in last year's Germanwings plane crash and obtaining compensation offered by the airline. https://www.thelocal.de/20161026/fake-germanwings-victim-relative-convicted-in-germany Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:05:59 +0200 fake-germanwings-victim-relative-convicted-in-germany Court proceedings opened on Monday against an Austrian newspaper for publishing a photo of a German man wrongly identified as the co-pilot who officials say deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane in the French Alps in March. https://www.thelocal.de/20150818/german-man-sues-over-wrong-photo-of-co-pilot Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:18:56 +0200 german-man-sues-over-wrong-photo-of-co-pilot Europe's aviation watchdog recommended changes on Friday, including that two people be present in plane cockpits at all times, after a lone rogue pilot reportedly deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in March, killing all 150 people on board. https://www.thelocal.de/20150717/eu-watchdog-urges-changes-after-plane-crash Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:09:07 +0200 eu-watchdog-urges-changes-after-plane-crash In response to the Germanwings flight tragedy, Minister of Transport Alexander Dobrindt presented plans to strengthen mental health care for pilots while Germanwings announced further compensation for relatives of the flight's victims. https://www.thelocal.de/20150630/germany-learns-lessons-on-pilots-mental-health Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:00:53 +0200 germany-learns-lessons-on-pilots-mental-health The first bodies from the Germanwings plane that was deliberately crashed in the French Alps were repatriated to Germany on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150610/first-germanwings-crash-victims-bodies-repatriated Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:12:39 +0200 first-germanwings-crash-victims-bodies-repatriated Investigators have identified the remains of all 150 people aboard a Germanwings flight that was deliberately crashed into the French Alps, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, allowing them finally to be laid to rest. https://www.thelocal.de/20150520/all-150-germanwings-crash-victims-identified Wed, 20 May 2015 10:08:11 +0200 all-150-germanwings-crash-victims-identified 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 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 Hundreds of bereaved relatives and world leaders gathered in Cologne on Friday for a memorial service for the victims of last month's Germanwings crash. https://www.thelocal.de/20150417/service-to-mourn-victims-of-germanwings-crash Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:26:18 +0200 service-to-mourn-victims-of-germanwings-crash 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 A woman who obtained multiple free flights to southern France by pretending to be the cousin of a Germanwings flight 4U9525 victim now faces legal action by the airline's parent company Lufthansa. https://www.thelocal.de/20150409/germanwings-plane-crash-woman-faked-germanwings-link-for-free-flights Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:29:09 +0200 germanwings-plane-crash-woman-faked-germanwings-link-for-free-flights 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 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 The president of Germany's Council of Psychotherapists said on Tuesday that there was no reason why the country should loosen its rules on doctor-patient confidentiality in the wake of the Germanwings crash. https://www.thelocal.de/20150331/germanwings-4u9525-confidentiality-doctors-warn-against-snap-crash-reaction Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:41:07 +0200 germanwings-4u9525-confidentiality-doctors-warn-against-snap-crash-reaction