Families of Germanwings crash victims to take legal action against US flight school

Lawyers for the families of British victims killed in the Germanwings air crash have marked its one-year anniversary by announcing plans to take legal action against the flight school where the co-pilot was trained.

Some 150 people died when Andreas Lubitz crashed the plane into a mountain after locking the captain out of the cockpit on March 24 last year.

Paul Bramley, a 28-year-old from Hull, was one of three British victims. He was studying hospitality and hotel management at Cesar Ritz College in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Paul Bramley from Hull was one of three British victims

Law firm Irwin Mitchell is planning to start legal proceedings against theflight school in Arizona, US, where Lubitz, 27, was trained because it believes he should have been prevented from qualifying as an airline pilot.

According to reports Lubitz was seen by 41 doctors in the years before thecrash.

Lubitz crashed Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf into the French Alps.

Traces of anti-depressants and sleeping medication were found in his body.

Voice recordings revealed that he locked the captain out of the cockpit and put the Airbus A320 into a continual descent.

Evidence shows there were attempts to break down the door.

Cockpit security was strengthened on passenger planes after the 9/11 attacks in the US, with a code system installed to prevent people getting in.

A memorial stele that reads 'In memory of the victims of the air disaster of March 24th, 2015' in four languages pictured near the Col de Mariaud area where Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashed