There was the first video from the crash site Airbus A320 , operating flights from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. The main version of the tragedy is currently considering an accident.
The aircraft, on which there were 150 people belonged to the company Germanwings – “daughter” of the airline Lufthansa. Its vice-president in Europe Heike Birlenbach has already announced that they are considering only one version of what happened. “ At the moment we are ready to declare that we are talking about the accident . So far, nothing more we can say. Others are speculation,” – said Birlenbach at a press conference in Barcelona.
At the site of the crash airline Germanwings in the French Alps gendarmes arrived. They note that the airplane when it hits the side of the mountain crumbled into a thousand small fragments. The largest of them does not exceed the area of one square meter.
It is noteworthy that A320 crashed insured by the same company that brought down last year in Ukraine MH17 liner and liner MH370, missing over the Indian Ocean . Investigation of accident took personal control of the French President Francois Hollande.
As it became known earlier, all on board were 144 passengers and six crew members. It is known that 67 people on board were German citizens. Among them, 16 students , who were returning home after completing the program of school exchanges.
Most of the Germans were tourists who were resting in Mallorca. Among the passengers as 45 subjects Spain, two of them children. The plane crash was the first for the airline Germanwings and the first in 15 years in France since 2000 under the Paris crash supersonic airliner “Concord”.
Airbus A320 is considered one of the most reliable passenger planes and one of the two of the most mass-produced, together with Boeing-737. Crashed aboard D-AIPX c serial number 147 was one of the oldest Airbus this class – he left the assembly line in 1991 and operated for nearly 25 years. Liner made nearly 47 thousand flights flown 58,000 hours. In addition, aircraft maintenance was the day before the accident.
The deep condolences on the plane crash in France expressed his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rahoyu Dmitry Medvedev. “We share the pain of your loss,” – said the Russian prime minister. “Please pass on my words of sympathy to the families and friends of those killed as a result of this tragic accident,” – reads the telegram prime minister, the text of which is available on the website of the Russian government.
The head of the Russian government also sent a condolence letter to Angela Merkel. Earlier his condolences to the Chancellor of Germany and King of Spain Philip VI expressed Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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