Germany in a state of grief after air crash
26 March 2015 6:45 AM IST
Germany has been plunged into a state of shock and grief by the crash of an aircraft of Lufthansa’s subsidiary Germanwings in the French Alps region, killing all 150 passengers and crew on board, including 67 Germans.
Among the 67 Germans, on board the Airbus A 320 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, were a group of 16 students and two teachers from a high school in the state of North Rhine Westphalia who were returning after attending an exchange programme in Spain. About 45 Spanish citizens are reportedly among the crash victims. They were still trying to establish the nationalities of all passengers, officials of Germanwings, a low-cost airline owned by Germany’s main carrier Lufthansa, said.
French authorities said none of the aircraft’s 144 passengers and six crew members survived the yesterday’s crash in a mountainous terrain in the southern French Alps near the town of Barcelonnette.
The flight 4U 9525 descended for eight minutes soon after reaching its cruise altitude for unknown reasons and went down in a remote inaccessible region of the Department Alpes-de- Haute Provence in southern France, Germanwings managing director Thomas Winkelmann said.
German chancellor Angela Merkel said she was shocked by the news of the crash which puts the people of Germany, France and Spain in deep sorrow.
Among the 67 Germans, on board the Airbus A 320 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, were a group of 16 students and two teachers from a high school in the state of North Rhine Westphalia who were returning after attending an exchange programme in Spain. About 45 Spanish citizens are reportedly among the crash victims. They were still trying to establish the nationalities of all passengers, officials of Germanwings, a low-cost airline owned by Germany’s main carrier Lufthansa, said.
French authorities said none of the aircraft’s 144 passengers and six crew members survived the yesterday’s crash in a mountainous terrain in the southern French Alps near the town of Barcelonnette.
The flight 4U 9525 descended for eight minutes soon after reaching its cruise altitude for unknown reasons and went down in a remote inaccessible region of the Department Alpes-de- Haute Provence in southern France, Germanwings managing director Thomas Winkelmann said.
German chancellor Angela Merkel said she was shocked by the news of the crash which puts the people of Germany, France and Spain in deep sorrow.
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