Germanwings airliner crashes in French Alps

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Germanwings airliner crashes in French Alps

An Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps near Digne, French aviation officials and police have said.

The jet belongs to the German low-cost airline Germanwings.

The plane was reported to be carrying 142 passengers and six crew members.

More to follow...

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32030270

Last position of Germanwings flight #4U9525 at 09:40 UTChttp://t.co/FHoX6q0GHt pic.twitter.com/72pxGKolRM

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 24, 2015

[lemons]

oh dear

[GommeInc]

Not great. It apparently dropped in altitude by quite a lot before dropping signal.

[Richie]

Just seen this now on the news. Hopefully everyone somehow is miraculously fine.

[Matt]

Just seen this as breaking news on tv. A very remote area too

[lemons]

i read the area where it crashed is so remote that the only way to access it is by helicopter and it will take 2 hours to get there by foot

[scottish]

France's President Francois Hollande said there were likely to be "no survivors" and that he expected a significant number of German casualties.
"It's a tragedy on our soil," he said.

"There were 148 people on board. The conditions of the accident, which have not yet been clarified, lead us to think there are no survivors."

The country's Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the causes of the crash were not yet known.

“It surprises me, that this aircraft flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, would have been at low altitude because nobody goes low in the Alps unless you are landing at Zurich or Geneva.

“So something catastrophic as either taken place or there has been a major emergency. If it was the second it would probably have been preceded or consistent with a radio call.

[MotorStefan95]

All these air incidents recently make me not want to travel by air. I hope somehow that the people on the plane survived but judging by the location of the crash I don't know how much hope there is. My thoughts are with the people's families at this time of uncertainty.

[AgnesIO]

Saddened to hear about this - very shocking, and obviously VERY rare - particularly for European airlines.

RIP to those who died.

[MotorStefan95]

Hopefully the to all the crash site can be reached sooner rather than later. RIP to all those that have died.