An ex-girlfriend of the co-pilot who deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane, killing all 150 on board, has told how he vowed to "do something" history would remember him by, according to German media reports.
Andreas Lubitz, 27, had hidden a sick note declaring him unfit to work on the day of the disaster before boarding the Dusseldorf-bound Airbus A320 and piloting it into a mountain in the southern French Alps.
According to German newspaper Bild, an ex-girlfriend of Lubitz, identified only as Mary W, said he had told her last year: "One day I will do something that will change the whole system, and then all will know my name and remember it."
She added: "I never knew what he meant, but now it makes sense."
And the stewardess, 26, said the pilot, who took a break in his training due to reported "burnout-syndrome", had suffered nightmares and his behaviour had scared her.
She told the paper: "At night, he woke up and screamed: 'We're going down!', because he had nightmares. He knew how to hide from other people what was really going on inside."
The comments came as some families of the 149 victims gathered for a church service and as Germanwings parent company Lufthansa said it would offer immediate aid of up to 50,000 euros ($A69,560) per passenger to relatives of those who died in the crash.
Family briefings are planned for later on Saturday at its family assistance centre in the French city of Marseille, the airline added.
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