Families to sue US flight school where Germanwings pilot trained

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.