According to The Guardian, aircraft owned by low-cost airlines Germanwings German crashed while flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf.
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An Airbus A320 of the airline Germanwings.
The Airbus A320 crashed near a remote mountain village Barcelonette Alps south of France. The plane has crashed signal at 10h47 (local time) and then disappeared from radar at about 11h20, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported.
Meanwhile, French television iTele said at least 142 passengers and 6 crew members on board.
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The final position of the Airbus A320. (Photo by BBC)
General Director of the French civil aviation (DGCA) has confirmed that the plane crashed in the mountains of the French Alps. Meanwhile, Airbus said've heard about the accident but could not confirm.
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Location plane crashed on the map (blue line).
French President François Hollande has claimed that there is no possibility of survivors in the crash.
He said the accident happened at "a remote mountainous area difficult to access." It is unclear plane crashed into a residential area and one in the ground are affected or not.
President Hollande also stressed, "France will support very" German in a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. German Ambassador in France said she would arrive at the scene of the accident south of the Alps in the next few hours.
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Spain Santamaria said 45 passengers on 4U 9525 is a citizen of this country.
Telegprah quoted Theaudin Yvan, a climbing guide in Prads Haute Bleone said plane area is a mountainous area difficult to access, especially in winter. Very steep slopes, so need to support the company provides professional services climbing. Helicopters also difficult to perform tasks when the weather might turn bad. The best way to search is implemented using the helicopter approached the nearest field, can then walk or ski to.
Eric Ciotti, head of the council area in southeastern France, said rescue teams were on their way to the accident site in Méolans-Revel, near the famous ski resort of Pra Loup.
The search and rescue is expected to be extremely difficult because of the terrain and prolong the scene of an accident is quite remote. Authorities said the helicopter had seen the debris of the plane.
Germanwings is cheap airline links with Lufthansa, also of Germany. Airbus A320 aircraft, with the same kind of distress, usually about 150 to 180 seats. Shares in Airbus, the giant aerospace company in Europe, devaluation soon as information about the accident.
According to some sources, the first fragments of the plane was found. Germanwings claims are continuing to monitor the situation, to verify the information and will inform the media unit when certain information.
Meanwhile, Captain Benoit Zeisser of police agencies Digne-le-Bains said the flight took off, it was a few clouds, but no low cloud ceiling and seemingly no turbulence.
The aircraft crashed has been used for 24 years and is located in the Lufthansa fleet since 1991.
French newspaper Le Monde described herein may be the worst aviation accident on French territory least since 1981, when 180 people were killed in plane crash near Ajaccio.