Lawsuit filed against Germanwings pilot's flight school

The families of victims killed last year when a suicidal pilot flew an airliner into a mountainside in the French Alps have filed a lawsuit against the US flight school where he was trained.

The suit, alleging the school failed to properly screen his medical background, was filed in the US District Court in Phoenix against the Airline Training Centre of Arizona. It is owned by Lufthansa, which is also the parent company of Germanwings, a regional Europe carrier that employed pilot Andreas Lubitz.

On March 24, 2015, Mr Lubitz locked Germanwings Flight 9525’s captain out of the cockpit and deliberately set the plane on a collision course with the mountain. All 150 people aboard, including Lubitz, were killed.