german police are investigating whether a woman sickeningly claimed to be related to a victim of last month's germanwings air disaster   so she could get free flights to southern france the airline's parent company lufthansa organised special flights for victims' families after the march 24 crash in the french alps which killed all 150 people on board the halterner zeitung newspaper   based in the town that lost 16 students and two teachers   said she flew to the region twice after falsely claiming to be one of the deceased teacher's cousins police are investigating the possible fraud and the alleged culprit will be questioned, a police spokesman in hoexter has said scroll down for video  fraud: police in germany are investigating whether a woman lied about being related to a victim of the doomed germanwings flight (pictured) to get free flights to southern france  cruel: as lufthansa chief executive carsten spohr (left) and germanwings managing director thomas winkelmann (right) mourn, a german woman has been accused of using the disaster for her own gain  liar: the woman allegedly tried to pass herself of as a deceased teacher on the flight, meanwhile passengers have laid flowers for the victims of the plane crash at the airport in dusseldorf (pictured) killer? andreas lubitz may have spiked his captain's coffee so he would be left alone on the aircraft's flight deck, investigators have now said  memorial: the first picture of the doomed crew of the germanwings plane at germanwings hq in cologne has been revealed  and lufthansa says it is looking into what appears to be a 'regrettable isolated case' but did not give further details the airbus a320 went down in a remote region of the french alps en route to dusseldorf from barcelona recordings from the flight data recorder suggest co pilot andreas lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit before 'deliberately' crashing the jet crash investigators are now examining a computer belonging to lubitz to determine whether he 'spiked' his captain's drink to force him into the toilet the 27 year old changed the aircraft's altitude to just 100 feet using the autopilot   sending it on collision course with the alps german prosecutors believe that lubitz may have added a chemical to captain patrick sodenheimer's coffee to remove him from the flight deck once captain sodenheimer closed the cockpit door, lubitz enabled special security features preventing the reinforced door from reopening the safety systems were introduced following the 9/11 attacks although the designers did not consider a rogue pilot seeking to kill himself while taking his passengers and fellow crew with him destruction: lubitz remained silent during the final eight minutes of the flight as it crashed into the alps  probe: investigators have been scouring lubitz's computers to determine his state of mind before the tragedy  already it has emerged that lubitz used his computer to research methods of killing himself as well as information concerning the cockpit door locking mechanism it is understood that european safety chiefs had concerns about germanwings' safety procedures in the weeks before the crash in november 2014, the european commission contacted several airlines and 'had asked for clarification to make sure all airlines actively observe rules' following the crash, it emerged that lubtiz suffered from crippling depression although lufthansa, who own germanwings, did not pass on this information to aviation regulators doomed: the germanwings airbus a320 crashed into a remote region of the french alps en route to dusseldorf from barcelona  investigators believe that lubitz, 27, informed its flight school when he returned from a several month break in pilot training in 2009 that he had experienced an episode of 'severe depression' lufthansa has said he subsequently passed all medical tests the eu has detailed air safety regulations, which included rules on a pilot's mental health, that member states need to take into account easa regularly tests whether the 28 eu nations adhere to those standards 'this is a normal and regular occurrence,' said the official
lubitz andreas lubtiz's hoexter
the woman allegedly boarded special flights organised for victims' families  police in hoexter are looking into the possible fraud, will question  woman  investigators have been searching andreas lubtiz's internet search history  lubitz sought information online on various methods of taking his own life 