In a live briefing on Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande said it was unlikely that there were survivors, adding that the area of the crash was remote.
Hollande said it was probable that a number of the victims were German. It was not clear whether anyone on the ground had been hurt, he said.
"It's a tragedy on our soil," Hollande said, adding he would be speaking shortly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Eric Ciotti, the head of the regional council, said search-and-rescue teams were headed to the crash site at Meolans-Revels.
La Provence, a regional newspaper, cited French civil aviation authorities for the number of people on board.
According to the paper, the airliner went down near Digne-Les-Bains in the Var area of Provence.
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland, reporting from Paris, said the mountainous terrain where the plane went down could complicate the rescue effort.
A French security source confirmed that the aircraft belonged to GermanWings, an affiliate of German airline Lufthansa, and was travelling between Barcelona and Dusseldorf.
The single-aisle A320 typically seats 150 to 180 people.
Airbus said it is aware of the reports of a crash but could not confirm.
[aljazeera.com]
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Airbus passenger plane with around 150 people on board crashes in French Alps...
ReplyDeleteThe crash is believed to have happened near the town of Digne
It involves an Airbus A320 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf operated by airline Germanwings....................http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0324/689330-live-plane-crash-france/
French President: No Survivors Likely in Airbus Crash ...
ReplyDeleteFrench President Francois Hollande said it is likely there are no survivors in the Alpine crash of a passenger jet carrying 148 people.
The Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, police and aviation officials said.
Citing aviation officials, the local La Provence newspaper said the Airbus A320 was carrying 142 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew...............http://www.voanews.com/content/germanwings-plane-crashes-in-southern-france/2692157.html
Frankreichs Verkehrsminister: Keine Überlebenden bei Absturz von Airbus A320...
ReplyDeleteBeim Absturz des Airbus A320 gibt es keine Überlebenden, wie der französische Verkehrsminister Alain Vidalies am Dienstag bestätigt hat.
„Es gibt dort keine Überlebenden. Um 10.47 Ortszeit gab es ein Notsignal. Es zeigte, dass sich das Flugzeug in einer Höhe von 5.000 Fuß befand, so eine Situation ist nicht normal“, sagte Vidalies und fügte hinzu, dass die Maschine kurz nach den gesendeten Signalen abgestürzt sei.
Ein Großraumflugzeug vom Typ A320 der deutschen Fluggesellschaft Germanwings, das von Barcelona nach Düsseldorf unterwegs war, war am Dienstag im Süden Frankreichs abgestürzt. Nach jüngsten Angaben sind die 150 Insassen ums Leben gekommen. Bei den meisten Opfern handelt es sich um Deutsche. Die Ursachen und Umstände sind vorerst unklar.
http://de.sputniknews.com/panorama/20150324/301625801.html#ixzz3VJlzoocY
24/3/15
No one survived when a Germanwings flight crashed in southern France on Tuesday and it is likely to take days to recover the bodies of those on board due to difficult terrain, French police at the crash site said...
ReplyDelete"It is going to take days to recover the victims, then the debris," senior police officer Jean-Paul Bloy told Reuters.
The police added that there were currently no theories on the cause of the crash.
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/French-police-say-to-take-days-to-recover-bodies-in-air-crash-394945
24/3/15
39 Turks among victims in Germanwings plane crash: Report...
ReplyDelete39 Turkish passengers were on the plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline that crashed in southern France on March 24 en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, killing 150 people, Catalan news television 3/24 has reported, according to Doğan News Agency.
Most victims were students travelling from Spain to Germany, according to the report.....http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/39-turks-among-victims-in-germanwings-plane-crash-report.aspx?pageID=238&nID=80101&NewsCatID=351
24/3/15
A search and recovery operation is resuming in the southern French Alps after Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings plane with 150 people on board...
ReplyDeleteOfficials warn the operation could last for days in a remote mountain ravine between Digne and Barcelonnette.
The leaders of Germany, France and Spain are due to visit the crash site.
The Airbus A320 - flight 4U 9525 - from Barcelona to Duesseldorf crashed after an eight-minute rapid descent, officials say. There were no survivors.
Officials believe 67 of those aboard the plane were German citizens, including 16 pupils returning from an exchange trip.
The officials say 45 of the passengers had Spanish names.
The flight was also carrying citizens of Australia, Turkey, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium. UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said it was "sadly likely" that some British nationals were on board...........http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32046250
25/3/15
Merkel, Hollande, Rajoy to Visit Germanwings Crash Site ...
ReplyDeleteGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy are expected to visit the crash site of a German jetliner that went down in the French Alps Tuesday, killing all 150 people aboard.
The Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed Tuesday morning without issuing any distress signals, while en route from Barcelona, Spain to the German city of Dusseldorf.
Lufthansa, the parent company of the budget subsidiary Germanwings, says it is treating the crash as an accident at this time, and cautioned that any immediate references to possible terrorism are speculative. The White House also reported no preliminary links to terrorism.
One of the flight recorders has been recovered and is undergoing analysis in Paris. Search efforts at the crash site were suspended for the night late Tuesday...........http://www.voanews.com/content/merkel-hollande-rajoy-to-visit-germanwings-crash-site/2693583.html
25/3/15
Sources who are close to the investigation are saying one of the black boxes recovered from the Germanwings A320 plane is damaged...
ReplyDeleteIt is now being sent to Paris for further analysis...............http://rt.com/news/243533-plane-crash-german-wings/
25/3/15
Hollande and Merkel arrive near plane crash site...
ReplyDeleteFrench President Francois Hollande, Germany's Angela Merkel and Spain's Mariano Rajoy are visiting an area near the site of yesterday's plane crash in the French Alps.
The three met rescue workers and police at the crisis centre set up in the wake of the air disaster.
Lufthansa has said it could not explain why its Germanwings Airbus crashed into an Alpine ravine killing all 150 on board..........http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0325/689528-germanwings-crash/
25/3/15
One of the pilots on the German Airbus plane that crashed in the French Alps, killing everyone on board, left the cockpit and was unable to return before the plane went down, the New York Times reported tonight, citing evidence from a cockpit voice recorder...
ReplyDelete"The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer," an unnamed investigator told the Times.
"And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer."
"You can hear he is trying to smash the door down," the investigator added...............http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0326/689815-alps-plane-crash/
26/3/15
The New York Times said the audio showed one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not get back in before the plane went down....
ReplyDelete“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” an unnamed investigator told the Times, citing the recordings. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”..........http://www.france24.com/en/20150326-audio-retrieved-germanwings-black-box-pilot-locked-out-crash/