BERLIN, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, unveiled Thursday information about the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525.
French authorities confirmed Thursday that the co-pilot had intended to destroy the plane.
A Lufthansa spokeswoman said earlier that the co-pilot had been working for Germanwings since September 2013 and completed 630 flight hours, according to N-TV reports.
He was trained as pilot at Lufthansa' pilot school in the German city of Bremen before he was hired, added the spokeswoman.
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PARIS, March 26 (Xinhua) -- No contacts between crashed Germanwings' A320, either from the captain or the first officer, with air traffic control in its last eight minutes, confirmed Brice Robin, prosecutor of the Republic, in a press conference held Thursday in Marseille, broadcast by BFMTV. Full Story
