i found only this on the pilots:
Both pilots were trained at the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen.
The captain had over 6,000 flight hours’ experience. He joined Germanwings in May 2014. Previously he was a pilot with Lufthansa and Condor, a Lufthansa partner airline.
The first officer joined Germanwings in September 2013. He had about 630 flight hours. They were unable to confirm whether this was his first job as a professional pilot, or any previous experience.
David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of Flightglobal, said that normally a locked cockpit door could be opened with a code.
“But inside there is a simple switch on the control panel the pilot would turn to lock the door,” he said.
He cited the crash of a Mozambican Airlines flight in Namibia in 2013 in which the pilot is believed to have locked himself in the cockpit and put the plane into a nose dive.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32062278
apologies posted this on another thread, according to the telegraph and bild
The pilots named as Patrick S and Andreas L
privacy laws in germany stop the release of the last name.