An Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed into a mountainside in the French Alps on Tuesday, March 24th 2015, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren. Helicopters and rescue personnel swarmed into the remote, rugged area in southeastern France after the crash but found no signs of life.
The chief executive of Lufthansa’s lowcost arm, Germanwings, said “ On Tuesday morning, the aircraft reached its cruising height of 38,000ft at 10.45am, 44 minutes into the flight, and began to descent just a minute or two later. Contact was lost at 10.53am when the plane was at 6,000ft.”
The ones aboard who are believed to be dead included 45 Spanish, 67 German nationals and a party of 16 German teenagers who were returning from an exchange trip to Spain. At a news conference on Tuesday evening, Heike Birlenbach, the vice president of Lufthansa, said, “At this stage, we consider this to be an accident,” adding that everything else was speculation.
However, Bernard Cazeneuve, French Interior Minister recently made a statement, “a black box has been found and will be delivered to investigators.” In addition, investigators have also recovered the cockpit voice recorder, which captures up to two hours of the pilots’ conversations as well as other cockpit noises, including any alarms that would have sounded as the plane descended.
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