FRANKFURT - Lufthansa was supposed to be celebrating the 60th anniversary of its postwar rebirth this month. Instead, on Wednesday, the day of that anniversary, the German airline faced perhaps the worst crisis in its history after admitting that it was aware that the co-pilot who deliberately crashed one of its planes in the French Alps last week, killing himself and the other 149 people on board, had a history of severe depression.
New York Times: Germanwings crash casts pall on Lufthansa anniversary
Journalists stand in Seyne, south-eastern France, on March 25, 2015, near the site of the crash of a Germanwings Airbus that slammed into the side of a mountain in the Alps killing the 150 passengers.
