Germany has been plunged into mourning after the crash of Flight 4U 9525. Of the 150 passengers and crew on board, 16 were school students from Germany. There were no survivors but rescuers have found the black box which will be crucial in investigating the moments that led to the crash. The Germanwings flight between Barcelona and Dusseldorf crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday.
Search teams have been struggling to work in the remote and snow-covered area where the aircraft crashed.
Germanwings said the Flight 4U9525 plane, which was travelling from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany, started descending one minute after reaching its cruising height and continued losing altitude for eight minutes.
Bruce Robin, a prosecutor from Marseille, told the Reuters news agency that he had seen the wreckage of the aircraft from a helicopter:
The body of the plane is in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage.
Bruce Robin, Prosecutor, Marseille
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