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Germanwings pilot 'locked out' of cockpit - crash investigators

The New York Times and AFP quote investigators into the Germanwings crash as saying that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not get back in before the flight went down.

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Families of the victims of Germanwings air disaster arrive at crash site

Air crash investigators and search teams have begun a third day scouring the wreckage of the Germanwings A320, which crashed with 150 people on board

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How pilot could have locked himself in cockpit of doomed jet

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New reports claim Airbus crash voice recorder reveals pilot 'was locked out of cockpit'

French emergency workers have removed the first bodies from the mountainside where a Germanwings Airbus crashed on Tuesday killing all 150 people on

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Germanwings crash: plane 'pulverised,' says journalist

A French journalist, who says he was the first reporter to arrive at the scene of the Germanwings air crash, has told euronews that it appears the

Sport

Khedira set to leave Real Madrid

Germany international Sami Khedira has all but confirmed he will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season. The 27-year-old, who has been hampered

France

Villages in the French Alps prepare to welcome families of air crash victims

Villages around the site of the Germanwings plane crash prepare to welcome the relatives of victims

Germany

German school and town mourns students and teachers who died in air crash

The Joseph König secondary school is in Haltern am See, north of Dusseldorf. Returning from a week-long exchange trip, 16 Joseph König teenagers and

France

[Live updates] Germanwings crash investigators still searching for second Black Box

The French government says one of the black boxes recovered from the site of the Germanwings Airbus crash in the Alps is the cockpit voice recorder and has been sent for analysis.

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ZERO art retrospective brings light to Berlin

An exhibition has begun in Berlin in honour of ZERO, the German avant-garde art movement. ZERO focused on light and dynamism and sought to give art

France

Search resumes for clues as to why Germanwings plane crashed in French Alps

Investigators in France have resumed sifting through the wreckage for clues as to why a Germanwings airbus crashed into the French Alps killing all

Germany

German town grieves for lost pupils after French Alps plane crash

Haltern am See in northwest Germany is a town in mourning. Locals held a vigil on Tuesday evening, hours after news came through of the plane crash

France

Disbelief as Airbus crashes near small French Alpine town

Residents in the small French town of Seyne Les Alpes are finding it difficult to come to terms with what has happened virtually on their doorstep

France

Germanwings crash: Witnesses describe moment of impact

France is reeling following the first plane crash on its soil in 15 years. In the alpine town of Barcelonnette, near to the crash site, eyewitnesses

France

Germanwings press conference mystery: what wasn't he supposed to say?

A Lufthansa spokeswoman has sparked a mystery around the crash of flight 4U9525. A journalist at a press conference asked “” Heike Birlenbach

World

Germanwings crash: lack of radio contact 'may not be surprising'

The French authorities have confirmed that one of the black box flight recorders has been recovered from the site of Tuesday’s passenger plane crash

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France: Search teams arrive at Germanwings plane crash site

A plane carrying 150 people, including a group of schoolchildren, has crashed in the French Alps. Aerial footage shows the wreckage of the Airbus

France

Spanish, French, German leaders extend condolences to air crash disaster families

On hearing the Germanwings disaster news, Spanish King Felipe VI aborted an official visit to France. Accompanied by Queen Letizia and flanked by

France

France plane crash: what we know

An Airbus A320, operated by Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings, crashed on Tuesday morning in a remote area of the French Alps. All 150 people on

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Germanwings crash: search suspended

Search called off overnight, 150 people presumed dead after Germanwings airliner crashes in French Alps Recovery teams have suspended the search for