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Pupils gather at the
Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school
to pay tribute to 16 students and
two teachers from the school who
were on Germanwings flight 4U9525
that crashed yesterday in southern
France on March 25, 2015 in Haltern,
Germany. All 144 passengers and six
flight crew are presumed dead and
authorities are investigating the
possible cause of the accident.
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Germany
hunts
for
co-pilot
motive
amid
depression
reports
Associated
Press
BERLIN -
Police
have
searched
the
homes of
co-pilot
Andreas
Lubitz
in two
German
cities
in
search
of an
explanation
for why
he may
have
crashed
a
passenger
plane
into the
French
Alps,
killing
all 150
people
on
board.
German
tabloid
Bild
reported
Friday
that
Lubitz
had a
"serious
depressive
episode"
six
years
ago and
that a
medical
problem
was
noted in
aviation
records.
The
Federal
Aviation
Office
couldn't
immediately
be
reached
for
comment.
French
investigators
believe
the
27-year-old
locked
himself
inside
the
cockpit
and then
intentionally
smashed
the
Germanwings
plane
into a
mountainside.
A
spokeswoman
for
Duesseldorf
police,
Susanna
Heusgen,
said "no
crucial
piece of
evidence
has been
found
yet"
after
the
searches
in
Duesseldorf
and
Montabaur.
Duesseldorf
prosecutors
say they
plan to
release
an
update
later
Friday.
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