Military vehicles arrive ahead of operations at the site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash, in Seyne-les-Alpes on March 31, 2015 -© AFP
SEYNE-LES-ALPES: The chief executives of Lufthansa and Germanwings will on Wednesday travel to the area near last week’s plane crash in the French Alps, the airline said.
Carsten Spohr, head of the parent company Lufthansa and Thomas Winkelmann from the Germanwings low-cost subsidiary will visit Seyne-les-Alpes early Wednesday to inspect recovery operations and pay their respects to the 150 dead.
Pilot told Lufthansa in 2009 of ‘previous episode of severe depression’: company
Picture released on March 27, 2015 shows the co-pilot of Germanwings flight 4U9525, Andreas Lubitz, on September 13, 2009 in Hamburg -© Foto Team Mueller/AFP/File
BERLIN: Lufthansa said Tuesday that the co-pilot of the Germanwings jet that crashed killing all 150 people aboard had informed the airline in 2009 that he had previously suffered from severe depression.
The airline said it had handed documents to prosecutors, including emails from Andreas Lubitz to his flying instructors. “In this correspondence he informed the Flight Training Pilot School in 2009… about a ‘previous episode of severe depression’,” a statement said. -AFP