A father and his twin teenage daughters died on Monday when their light aircraft crashed in central France in as yet unexplained circumstances, the rescue services said.
Egypt enlisted a submarine on Sunday to search the Mediterranean seabed for the black boxes of EgyptAir MS804 three days after it crashed, hoping the recorders would explain the mysterious disaster.
A piece of Boeing 777 wreckage that washed up on an Indian Ocean island arrived for analysis in France early Saturday, after Malaysian authorities said the part was almost certainly recovered from missing flight MH370.
Europe's aviation watchdog recommended changes on Friday, including that two people be present in plane cockpits at all times, after a lone rogue pilot reportedly deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in March, killing all 150 people on board.
Investigators have identified the remains of all 150 people aboard a Germanwings flight that was deliberately crashed into the French Alps, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, allowing them finally to be laid to rest.
The co-pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in the French Alps may have "rehearsed" steering the plane into a rapid descent on his previous flight, a French probe revealed on Wednesday.
The operation to clear the wreckage of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps has officially ended, French military police said on Monday. Images show the crash site, once strewn with debris, now clear of the plane's wreckage.
These pictures show how three weeks after a Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps, the mountainside that was once strewn with wreckage and body parts has almost been cleared by investigators.
French prosecutors have said that the second black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps last week is in a "usable condition".
The second black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps last week has been found after a nine-day search, prosecutors in France said on Thursday.
France's national carrier Air France has followed the lead of other airlines and put in place a system whereby two people must be in the cockpit at all times. However the measure may only temporary.
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who is believed to have intentionally crashed a plane carrying 149 other people into the French Alps, lied to doctors about being on sick leave from work while he was still flying planes.
Prosecutors investigating the crash of a Germanwings plane in the French Alps have demanded that a video purportedly showing the final moments of the flight inside the cabin must be handed over to investigators.
All the bodies on the doomed Germanwings flight that crashed in the Alps one week ago could be identified by the end of the week, the French President said on Tuesday.
The grim search through debris and body parts at the crash site of the doomed Germanwings plane in the French Alps was made easier on Tuesday with trucks able to access the area via a new and hastily built road.
Andreas Lubitz, the 27-year-old co-pilot believed to have deliberately downed the Germanwings plane in the French Alps last week had demonstrated suicidal tendencies in the past, but not in recent years German prosecutors said on Monday.
More details from the black box recordings from the crashed Germanwings jet have revealed how everything seemed ordinary as the flight took off but it ended with the horror of the pilot screaming "open the damn door".
German prosecutors revealed on Friday that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who is believed to have deliberately crashed the Germanwings plane in the Alps, had a sick leave note from his doctor for the day of the crash, but hid his illness from his employers.
UPDATED: French authorities are yet to find any intact bodies as they continue the painstaking search for victim body parts among the wreckage of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps. Investigators are also hunting for the second black box.
The Germanwings co-pilot said to have deliberately crashed his Airbus with 149 others aboard into the French Alps suffered a bout of serious depression six years ago, German daily Bild reported on Friday.
UPDATED: The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings plane refused to open the cockpit door and seemed to "want to destroy the plane", a French prosecutor has said. DPA reported police are investigating his home.
The discovery that the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight is suspected of deliberately crashing the plane will inevitably raise questions about security on airplanes, but is it really possible to prevent a pilot from committing mass murder-suicide?
French air investigators confirmed on Wednesday that they have succeeded in extracting a "usable" audio file from the cockpit recorder in which voices can be heard.
The black box flight recorder from the doomed Germanwings plane was damaged in the impact but air investigators hope it will unlock the mystery of why the plane plunged from the sky over the Alps on Tuesday.
