French Alps

In email to his doctor two weeks before the crash Andreas Lubitz said: 'I'm afraid to go blind and I can't get this possibility out of my head.'

Six other members of a group of about 50 troops were injured after an avalanche hit their skiing exercise at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres.

The teacher led his pupils onto a closed black piste where two of the teenagers and a nearby tourist died after becoming engulfed in an avalanche.

Five members of a school ski party were still misssing hours after the avalanche at the Deux Alpes resort, while four others were seriously injured.

Probe seeks to determine if co-pilot's mental state could have been detected by airline or others before the March 24 crash which claimed 150 lives.

Prosecutor says Patrice Menegaldo, who killed himself last year, is chief suspect in 2012 murder of al-Hilli family and French cyclist.

French crash report says Andreas Lubitz repeatedly set Spain-bound plane to drop to 100ft before slamming it into French Alps on return flight.

More than 1,400 people, including Germany's chancellor and president, attended the service for the 150 people who died in the March 24th crash.

The boy, on a family skiing holiday in Flaines near the Swiss border, apparently became lost on a piste before falling over a rock formation.

Its data reveals that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz used the automatic pilot to put the airplane on a descent towards an altitude of 100 feet.

This box records technical flight data that could provide vital insights into the final moments of Flight 4U9525 before it crashed last week.

Ex-girlfriend says Andreas Lubitz may have feared that health problems made his 'big dream of a job at Lufthansa, as captain' nearly impossible.

German newspaper Bild says Andreas Lubitz spent a total of one and a half years in psychiatric treatment and had interrupted his flight training.

With one pilot locked out of cockpit, events point to the suicide or sudden illness of remaining pilot, with latter theory unlikely say experts.

But official says still too early to draw any conclusions about causes of the Germanwings jet crash in the French Alps that killed 150 people.