Paris — The French judiciary has dropped proceedings for involuntary manslaughter seven years after the crash of a Germanwings flight in the Alps.

The criminal court in the southern French city of Marseille concluded that no one could have foreseen and prevented the co-pilot from deliberately crashing the Airbus into a mountain on March 24, 2015, the spokeswoman for the mass casualty chamber said on Thursday.

All 150 people on board the flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf were killed. Most of the victims were from Germany.

The judges decided that the criminal offence of negligent homicide was not fulfilled, thus absolving the doctors consulted by the co-pilot prior to the crash, as well as the managing directors of Germanwings - now Eurowings - and the parent company Lufthansa, of any criminal responsibility.

For its decision, the court relied, among other things, on a doctor who works as a public health inspector and on a psychiatric report.

The co-pilot's suicidal act had not been foreseeable despite his established mental illnesses, the judges found.

His employer had not been informed about the reasons for his time off work and the co-pilot had not informed the aviation medical service or colleagues.

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