Germanwings Crash Victims
Germanwings Crash Victims, The bosses of Germanwings and its parent company Lufthansa have visited a memorial near the site of the crash in the French Alps that killed all 150 people aboard.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr and his Germanwings counterpart Thomas Winkelmann landed by helicopter in Seyne-les-Alpes, before traveling to the small village of Le Vernet.
Spohr said: "It was very important for us to come here today to mourn the victims, to experience the deep sorrow here at this monument."
He said there was a burden on people in the area, and that "nothing is the same any more."He said he airlines would "do everything" to support the location's transformation into a place of mourning, "and restore this beautiful countryside as much as we can when the investigation is finished."
The Düsseldorf-bound Airbus A320 crashed into the French Alps less than an hour after departing Barcelona on March 24. French and German investigators allege that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 27, deliberately crashed it.
Authorities on Wednesday said they have finished collecting human remains from the site.
Lt. Col. Jean-Marc Menichini said investigators "will continue looking for bodies, but at the crash site there are no longer any visible remains," the Associated Press reported.
Officials at France's national criminal laboratory near Paris said it will take a few months to identify the victims and for the remains to be returned to the families.Lubitz told his flight school in 2009 that he had suffered a "serious episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said Tuesday. The airline said the note was found in emails the co-pilot sent to its flight school when he returned to training.
"Thereafter the co-pilot received the medical certificate confirming his fitness to fly," Lufthansa said in a statement.
David Gregory, Dorothy Day Professor of Law & Executive Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at St. John's University said there was "every indication" of criminal gross negligence, which could result in criminal prosecutions, "posing the possibility of damages in numbers that could threaten the very future of the airline."
On Tuesday, French and German publications Paris Match and Bild said they have obtained cellphone video taken inside the plane in the seconds before the crash. They said the video was found amid the wreckage by a source close to the investigation.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr and his Germanwings counterpart Thomas Winkelmann landed by helicopter in Seyne-les-Alpes, before traveling to the small village of Le Vernet.
Spohr said: "It was very important for us to come here today to mourn the victims, to experience the deep sorrow here at this monument."
He said there was a burden on people in the area, and that "nothing is the same any more."He said he airlines would "do everything" to support the location's transformation into a place of mourning, "and restore this beautiful countryside as much as we can when the investigation is finished."
The Düsseldorf-bound Airbus A320 crashed into the French Alps less than an hour after departing Barcelona on March 24. French and German investigators allege that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 27, deliberately crashed it.
Authorities on Wednesday said they have finished collecting human remains from the site.
Lt. Col. Jean-Marc Menichini said investigators "will continue looking for bodies, but at the crash site there are no longer any visible remains," the Associated Press reported.
Officials at France's national criminal laboratory near Paris said it will take a few months to identify the victims and for the remains to be returned to the families.Lubitz told his flight school in 2009 that he had suffered a "serious episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said Tuesday. The airline said the note was found in emails the co-pilot sent to its flight school when he returned to training.
"Thereafter the co-pilot received the medical certificate confirming his fitness to fly," Lufthansa said in a statement.
David Gregory, Dorothy Day Professor of Law & Executive Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at St. John's University said there was "every indication" of criminal gross negligence, which could result in criminal prosecutions, "posing the possibility of damages in numbers that could threaten the very future of the airline."
On Tuesday, French and German publications Paris Match and Bild said they have obtained cellphone video taken inside the plane in the seconds before the crash. They said the video was found amid the wreckage by a source close to the investigation.
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