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A Germanwings Airbus A319-100 wearing the airline's second livery introduced in 2013 A Germanwings Airbus A319-100 wearing a promotional Park Inn Hotels livery. In January 2015, Lufthansa Group announced that it would discontinue the Germanwings brand and replace it with Eurowings starting in late 2015. [14]
After the collapse of Air Berlin it was purchased by Lufthansa in October 2017 and became a unit of the group's low-cost carrier Eurowings. Zeitfracht Group completed the purchase of LGW from Lufthansa on 1 April 2019 and renamed it in early 2020. [2] The contract with Eurowings was terminated in April 2020 and LGW filed for insolvency. [3]
The history of German Wings can be traced to 1983 and began as a small air taxi firm called Airflight. In 1986 the name was changed to German Wings and in April 1989 it commenced scheduled flights using MD-83 aircraft.
Safety protocols designed to keep intruders from accessing a plane's cockpit are in focus after Tuesday's crash of the Germanwings flight left 150 people dead. On Thursday, French prosecutor Brice ...
Germanwings Flight 9525 [1] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings , a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa .
March - German company Dr Oetker buys German company Coppenrath & Wiese [4]; 5 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 24 March - The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 leads to widespread media coverage and public attention in Germany. 72 Germans die aboard the German machine that was intentionally crashed by its German co-pilot.
As of October 2015, German low-cost carrier Germanwings served the following destinations. During 2016, the network had been incorporated into Eurowings.
Impact of two kamikazes on the USS Bunker Hill. During World War II, the Russian aviator Nikolai Gastello was the first Soviet pilot credited with a (later disputed) "fire taran" in a suicide attack by an aircraft on a ground target, although his aircraft had been shot down and was in a rapid partially controllable descent. [9]