Germanwings A320 Passenger Jet With 148 Aboard Crashes in Southern France
Germanwings Airbus A320 en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf with around 150 people on board crashed in southern France Tuesday; the passengers are feared dead.
Germanwings A320 airplane, flight 4U9525, crashed in southern France Tuesday, Europe1 radio network reported.
The airliner was flying from Barcelona, Spain, to Germany’s city of Dusseldorf when it disappeared from the radars in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France. Distress call had been received 13 minutes before Airbus A320 came down.
French President Francois Hollande said that the conditions of the accident suggested that there were no survivors adding that there had likely been many German nationals aboard the plane. According to Hollande, the aircraft crashed in a remote mountainous area.
The French president is expected to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish King Felipe VI later. French President Hollande and German Foreign Minister Steinmeier have expressed their condolences to the families of the victims of the plane crash.
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