Sources: CNN
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada concludes pilot disorientation was the most likely cause of a plane crash that killed former Premier of Alberta Jim Prentice and three others. The TSB asks Transport Canada to mandate cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders on all commercial and private business aircraft. 2018-04-26
Emergency teams comb snowy fields outside Moscow Monday for debris from a crashed Russian airliner and the remains of the 71 people who died. Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov says that emergency teams have already found the plane's flight data recorder, which will help them determine the crash's cause, but notes that the search for the victims' remains will take at least a week. 2018-02-12
French prosecutors say the passengers onboard the Germanwings flight that crashed in southern France have all been identified, and their bodies can be returned home to their families. 2015-05-19
A French investigation finds that Andreas Lubitz, perpetrator copilot of the murder-suicide disaster of Germanwings Flight 9525 had practised rapid descent on a previous flight. 2015-05-6
Data from the flight data recorder reveals that the plane was deliberately accelerated before crashing into the French Alps. 2015-04-3
German prosecutors state that the co-pilot researched suicide methods and the security of cockpit doors. 2015-04-2
Germanwings' owner Lufthansa officially acknowledges that it knew there were mental health issues with Andreas Lubitz before the crash. 2015-03-31
Investigators, searching one of the two residences of the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, find a torn doctor's note granting Lubitz medical leave—deeming him unfit for work—for a period including the day of the crash. 2015-03-27
A search and recovery operation resumes for the remains of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps on March 24. 2015-03-25
Divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the crashed jet. 2015-01-11