Co-pilot held solely to blame for 2015 Germanwings plane crash
Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the A320 jet into a French mountainside on a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, killing all 150 people on board
09 January 2017 - 15:45
Dusseldorf — German prosecutors have decided that nobody other than co-pilot Andreas Lubitz could be held accountable for the crash of a Germanwings plane in March 2015, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said on Monday. Lubitz deliberately flew the Germanwings A320 jet into a French mountainside on March 24, 2015, on a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, killing all 150 people on board.
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