A total of 150 people including 144 passengers and 6 staffs died in a flight crash near the Marseilles state of France. The flight crashed into the southern French Alps.
The Germanwings A320 aircraft was flying from Barcelona, Spain to Dusseldorf, Germany. The passenger career is a 24-year old workhorse and had been with the parent Lufthansa group since 1991.
More than 400 personnel are involved in the rescue mission since the Alps is very tough to reach even to mountain walkers and the rescue team is finding it difficult to reach the accident zone.
The Airbus started from Barcelona and lost it's radial contact with its French air traffic control shortly before the crash. According to the reports by French air traffic controllers, the flight was at 6000ft high when it lost the radio contact, but the terrain in that area rises to an elevation of more than 6,000 feet.
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“The airplane had completely disintegrated,” Capt. Benoit Zeisser, head of the center of operations and information for the local police in Digne-les-Bains, said late Tuesday. “There is nothing left; the area of the crash is huge,” he added.
The area of the crash is also huge and the rescuers are finding it difficult to clear the area. More saddening news is there were 16 German high school students and two teachers returning from a study program near Barcelona among the dead.
The latest is that the flight's black box, containing the cockpit's voice recorder is found. However, the reason behind the described accident is still undisclosed.
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