A320 crash in French Alps kills 150!
The low-cost Germanwings owned by Lufthansa, Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 crashed, between Digne and Barcelonnette in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. According to officials there are no survivors. Germanwings has been operating since 2002 as part of traditional Lufthansa’s response from rising European budget carriers serving mainly European destinations. The area where the plane went down is near a popular ski resort.
“Although the “black box” flight recorder has been found, the cause of the crash is till unknown as the plane did not send any distress signal “ according to French interior minister Among the passengers were 16 German pupils returning from an exchange trip.
Two Teachers and 16, 10th grade 15 year old students on their way home after a week-long Spanish exchange programme at the Institut Giola in Llnars del Valles neat Barcelona, were on board the ill-fated crashed Germanwings airplane.
Germanwings confirmed its flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf went down with 144 passengers and six crew.
“This is the hour in which we all feel deep sorrow,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters, adding that she was planning to travel to the crash site.
A recovery team reached the site, in a remote mountain ravine, earlier on Tuesday. Their work was called off in the evening and will resume at first light on Wednesday, the French interior ministry said.
“The body of the plane is in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage,” he said.