- March 24, 2015
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Airbus A320 aircraft airline Germanwings, flying from 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf on Tuesday morning crashed in southern France in the department of Alpes de Haute Provence.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of France reported that the wreckage of the plane that crashed over the French Alps, found in the mountains at an altitude of 2000 meters.
French President Francois Hollande confirmed the report about the crash. According to him, the plane crashed in a remote area. According to Hollande, the French rescue services sent to the disaster area.
According to the president, it is too early to talk about the causes of the crash flying from Spain to Germany airliner.
“Status wreckage allows to draw conclusions that the survivors of the disaster, probably not, “- said in a televised address Hollande. French police later confirmed that all aboard the plane were killed.
An experienced pilot
Executive Director of Germanwings, Thomas Vilkelmann reported that communication with the plane was lost at 10 : 53 local time (12:53 MSK), when the plane was at an altitude of about 2 thousand. meters.
According to preliminary information, the aircraft made a reduction from a height of more than 12 thousand m for 8 minutes.
A local resident Sebastian Giroux told French television that he saw the plane just before the time of the disaster.
“No smoke was not anything like that, but given the height at which he was flying, he did not not had a chance to cut into the mountains, “- says Giroux.
The head of the company informed that the technical inspection of the aircraft was carried out on the eve of the company’s technicians in Dusseldorf Lufthansa. The captain of the aircraft was an experienced pilot who has worked for more than 10 years in Lufthansa and Germanwings and had more than 6 thousand. Flight hours directly to this model, “Airbus”.
Initially, there were reports that the plane before the crash filed a distress signal. Later, however, the airline reported that no alarm messages from the aircraft were reported.
Germanwings representative said that the place of the crash experts flew Lufthansa, Airbus and Germanwings.
The official representative of the Ministry Interior of France, Pierre-Henri Brande suggested that the search operation is likely to take a long time because of the inaccessibility of the area of the crash.
Students on board
According to the company Germanwings, all on board were 150 people, including six crew members. However, as already said Thomas Winkelmann, a decision has not yet published a list of passengers to be protected from undue publicity of their relatives.
Francois Hollande intends to contact the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as the plane was a large number of passengers from Germany, as well as the Spanish king Philip VI.
The Spanish authorities have confirmed that on board plane were 45 passengers with Spanish names, but it is not clear whether they are all citizens of Spain.
The Catalan newspaper Vanguardia reported that on board were 16 German students and four teachers who came to Llinars del Vallès (Barcelona) on the exchange.
They lived in the homes of students and teachers of Spanish, having spent nine days in Spain.
Russian Consulate General in Barcelona reported that no data whether the Russians on board the crashed plane.
In the Russian Consulate in Madrid as long as there is no information about the Russians on board.
The reasons are not clear
Germanwings company was founded in 1997 under the name Eurowings Flug GmbH, the modern name is October 2002.
On January 1, 2009, it is fully owned by a major German air carrier Lufthansa.
The airline serves more than 110 destinations within the European region, as well as regular flights to North Africa and Israel. The carrier serves several directions trip to Russia: St. Petersburg and Moscow. This airline is very popular among German tourists, holidaymakers in Spain.
The company Lufthansa, which owns loukoster Germanwings, while no information on the causes of the accident, but trying to get any information about the incident, the statement said Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO Carsten Spohr posted on Lufthansa page in “Facebook”.
“We still do not know exactly what happened to flight 4U 9525. Our thoughts are with all the family and friends of our passengers and crew. We do everything as soon as possible to provide additional information, “- said in a statement.
The company Germanwings to date has been flawless safety performance. For all the time of its existence, there was not one of an accident.
The average age of the Airbus company – about nine years, although the crashed A320 was older aircraft manufactured 24 years ago.
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