Lubitz came to Alps regularly as a child with parents

A member of a gliding club in the French Alps, where a Germanwings plane crashed this week, has said the co-pilot of the plane frequented the area as a child with his parents.

Francis Kefer, a member of the club in the town of Sisteron, said on i-Tele television that Andreas Lubitz's family and other members of the gliding club in his home town of Montabaur, Germany, came to the region regularly between 1996 and 2003.