Investigators: Germanwings Co-Pilot Practiced Controlled Descent

French air accident investigators say the co-pilot who deliberately brought down a Germanwings flight in the French Alps in March, killing 150 people, had tried a controlled descent on an earlier flight on the same day. Investigators announced on Wednesday that Andreas Lubitz repeatedly put the plane into descent and then brought it back up during a flight from Duesseldorf to Barcelona. In a report, the investigators say the co-pilot was apparently alone in the cockpit, as he was when...

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