News: Plane crash in France, 150 dead

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(Reuters) - An Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in a remote area of the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren.

Germanwings confirmed its flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf went down 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. In Washington, the White House said the crash did not appear to have been caused by a terrorist attack.

The airline believed there were 67 Germans on the flight. Spain's deputy prime minister said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian was aboard.

Also among the victims were 16 children and two teachers from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in the town of Haltern am See in northwest Germany, a spokeswoman said.

Investigators described a scene of devastation where the airliner crashed. Aerial photographs showed smoldering wreckage and a piece of the fuselage with six windows.

"We saw an aircraft that had literally been ripped apart, the bodies are in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage," Bruce Robin, prosecutor for the city of Marseille, told Reuters in Seyne-les-Alpes after flying over the crash zone in a helicopter.

French police at the crash site said no one survived and it would take days to recover the bodies due to difficult terrain, snow and incoming storms.

Police said search teams would stay overnight at altitude.

"We are still searching. It's unlikely any bodies will be airlifted until Wednesday," regional police chief David Galtier told Reuters.

In Paris, Prime Minister Manuel Valls told parliament: "A helicopter managed to land (by the crash site) and has confirmed that unfortunately there were no survivors."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0MK0ZP20150324

Bicassie

RIP

EDIT: 148 people were on it..

Nat A

Oh no

Callum

Horrific

OnlyManInTheWorld

Dear God, what a tragic year for France

SixWholeYears

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Originally posted by OnlyManInTheWorld

Dear God, what a tragic year for France

It is a German airline, flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, except where it crashed it has nothing to do with France.

Anyway on topic, this is so sad

RIP.

rbautz

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Originally posted by OnlyManInTheWorld

Dear God, what a tragic year for France

It's a German airplane and started in Barcelona

Sasha.

yeah, you know what, i am never flying again. my fear of flying has been ridiculed and mocked since i was 10 years old, and i just wanna print all the news about plane crashes this last year and shove 'em up in people's faces. no ****ing way i'm getting on a plane ever again

i hope there are survivors :/

Rihinvention

This is tragic. Hopefully they went instantly, and didn't spend their last moments in extreme fear.

Lucyyyyyyyyy

Oh no

HotHeaven

so scary that one minute we are alive and then in the next we are dead.

Cheers

RIP

this is horrible

Sorbet

Damn

HotHeaven

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Originally posted by Sasha.

yeah, you know what, i am never flying again. my fear of flying has been ridiculed and mocked since i was 10 years old, and i just wanna print all the news about plane crashes this last year and shove 'em up in people's faces. no ****ing way i'm getting on a plane ever again

i hope there are survivors :/

accidents DO happen.

you have more chances of dieing in a car accident than in a plane crash.

OnlyManInTheWorld

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Originally posted by SixWholeYears

It is a German airline, flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, except where it crashed it has nothing to do with France.

Anyway on topic, this is so sad

RIP.

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Originally posted by rbautz

It's a German airplane and started in Barcelona

Ok, thanks.

ItsJim

R. I. P. Hope they find survivors.

Somalian Hooker

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Originally posted by Sasha.

yeah, you know what, i am never flying again. my fear of flying has been ridiculed and mocked since i was 10 years old, and i just wanna print all the news about plane crashes this last year and shove 'em up in people's faces. no ****ing way i'm getting on a plane ever again

i hope there are survivors :/

Oh for god's sake, as i'm sure you've been informed before - driving is much more dangerous than flying. So i assume you'll be swearing off the motor vehicle as well?

Flying is not unsafe just because there have been a recent spate of highly publicised aviation accidents. Statistically speaking, flying is still very, very, very safe.

As for the aircraft involved, looks like it was built in 1990, so it was 24 years old - an earlier model A320.

And it looks like it slowly descended toward the mountain:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/G.../EDDL/tracklog

Edit: they declared an emergency prior to the crash

https://twitter.com/ReutersAero/stat...24516947234816

TheSoneNavy

Oh no

Sasha.

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Originally posted by HotHeaven

accidents DO happen.

you have more chances of dieing in a car accident than in a plane crash.

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Originally posted by Somalian Hooker

Oh for god's sake, as i'm sure you've been informed before - driving is much more dangerous than flying. So i assume you'll be swearing off the motor vehicle as well?

Flying is not unsafe just because there have been a recent spate of highly publicised aviation accidents. Statistically speaking, flying is still very, very, very safe.

i don't drive either so byeeeeeee

Eóghan Scherzy

I bet half of them are german
Rip to all the passengers

It's really scary that it's happening in Europe now