150 Feared Killed as German Plane Crashes
Germanwings, a German passenger plane carrying 150 people, crashed on Tuesday in the French Alps. All on board were feared killed. The plane was on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Germany when it crashed.
The Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 – went down between Digne and Barcelonnette.
The plane came down in a remote mountain range and the debris appeared to have been spread over a wide area.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said one of the “black boxes” in the plane had been found. The cause of the crash was not known at press time and the plane did not send a distress signal.
There were believed to be 67 people from Germany on the aircraft, including 16 students and two teachers from the same school in the town of Haltern. The youngsters had been on a school exchange programme in Spain.
German opera singers Oleg Bryjak and Maria Radner were also on board. Ms Radner had been flying with her husband and baby, said a Spanish opera house.
Forty-five of the passengers are thought to be Spanish.
Germanwings, a low-cost airline owned by Germany’s main carrier, Lufthansa, has an excellent safety record.
