Paris/Berlin: The Search and recovery efforts resumed today in the French Alps region after Flight 9525 of Germanwings, a budget German airliner crashed into the mountains a day before. The A320 plane traveling from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, Germany went down Tuesday morning. All 150 people on board are expected to have died.
Aerial Footage of the undergoing Search and Recovery Operations at French Alps
16 of those passengers were students at this small-town German high school. They were on their way home after a Spanish exchange programme. A makeshift memorial has been set up outside the school.
Newspaper headlines reflect the country’s united sorrow. In Spain, other family members of those on board await news of the search efforts.
Little is known at this time as to what caused the crash.
Experts are analysing information from one of the cockpit voice and data recorders recovered yesterday.
Aerial footage captured above the site in the French Alps where Lufthansa’s Germanwings plane crashed shows wreckage strewn across a wide area.
The Airbus 320 went down in a remote mountainous area, killing all 150 people on board.
Germanwings confirmed its flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf crashed with 144 passengers and six crew on board.
One of the plane’s black box recorders has been found and will be examined immediately, France’s interior minister said.
The airline said there were 67 Germans on the flight. Spain’s deputy prime minister said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian was aboard.
(Ventuno)