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Perhaps you prefer the bbc report. It is a statement of fact. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32159602 The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing the Germanwings jet in the French Alps had researched suicide methods and the security of cockpit doors in the week before the crash...

Lufthansa knew he had a serious depressive episode in 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583

With all the personal abuse, and point scoring over each other on this thread, this is the most vital part of aviation 'law' that worries me. Pilots have turned up drunk, under the influence of drugs etc before flying. Airlines are going to have to be much more rigorous in assessing pilots...

This is the news on the bbc website this evening. Duesseldorf public prosecutor Christoph Kumpa said that "several years" before Lubitz became a pilot he "had at that time been in treatment of a psychotherapist because of what is documented as being suicidal" I would think that Lufthansa are...

Pathetic (sad) causing feelings of sadness, sympathy, or sometimes lack of respect, especially because a person or an animal is suffering: Pathetic (unsuccesful) making someone feel no respect, often because unsuccessful or showing no ability, effort, or bravery: You aren't debating the state...

Can I have that again in English?

The law takes into account mental health. Some criminals are sent to mental hospitals by judges. You are being deliberately obtuse comparing a suicide in public on tv, with the mass murder of 149 people including 16 schoolchildren and two babies. I cannot feel empathy with the co pilot but I...

Judges in court call criminals evil when sentencing them.

You can hardly switch it off and switch it back on again at 35,000 feet.

Barcelona knew there was a problem on the plane before it crashed as they could hear what was going on. They couldn't reveal it to the world's press until the voice recorder had been found, to confirm what they'd heard. On Radio 2, I heard one person say the French had launched two Mirage...

From this fire fighting manual, it appears cabin (galley) crew do have a crash axe. http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/1177.pdf

Maybe the crew has access to it in the galley for emergencies?

A few details have emerged about the pilot who flew the plane for the first 20 minutes, until he was locked out by Mr Lubitz. He has been named in the German media as Patrick Sonderheimer. French radio station Europe1 interviewed a former colleague of his who said Mr Sonderheimer was married...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32087203 In their statement, prosecutors said they seized medical documents from Mr Lubitz's two residences - his Duesseldorf flat and his parents' home north of Frankfurt - which indicated "an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment". But "the...

They followed the flight on flight radar, and could see the altitude for themselves. They tried to contact the plane, but the co-pilot refused to answer them. Somebody pointed out that the USA were making statements before all of this came out, so the air traffic control must have had...

Horrific.