Lufthansa Germanwings Airbus A320 Crashes In French Alps With 150 Dead, Black Box Found

Rescue helicopter from the French Gendarmerie hovers in front of the crash site of an Airbus A320

German Airbus crashes in French Alps with 150 dead, black box found (euronews/Reuters, March 24, 2015):

SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (Reuters) – An Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s <LHAG.DE> Germanwings budget airline crashed into a mountainside in 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 at the crash site, about 100 km (65 miles) north of the Riviera city of Nice, 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, while Lufthansa said it was working on the assumption that the tragedy had been an accident, adding that any other theory would be speculation.

Aerial photographs showed smouldering wreckage and a piece of the fuselage with six windows strewn across the steep mountainside cut by ravines.

“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,” Brice Robin, prosecutor for the city of Marseille, told Reuters after flying over the wreckage in a helicopter.

Germanwings believed 67 Germans had been on the flight. Spain’s deputy prime minister said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian was also 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.

Barcelona’s Liceu opera house said on Twitter that two singers, Kazakhstan-born Oleg Bryjak and German Maria Radner, had died while returning to Duesseldorf after they had performed in Wagner’s Siegfried at the theatre.

French police at the crash site about 2,000 metres (6,000 feet) above sea level said no one had survived and it would take days to recover the bodies due to difficult terrain, snow and incoming storms.

2 thoughts on “Lufthansa Germanwings Airbus A320 Crashes In French Alps With 150 Dead, Black Box Found”

  1. It is being used as an obfuscation tool on US media…………being played nonstop on every corporate news channel……..and corporations have added new channels to promote the shell games called news.

    The markets are up, and the search for another black box is all they cover.
    I cannot bear to watch or listen, with my background in the study of history with an emphasis on the art and science of propaganda……..it is downright insulting.

    But, it is a highly polished art in US media, and it lulls the fools into a false sense of security. Never under-rate it.

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