Passenger plane crashes in French Alps; all 150 people aboard killed - Duluth News Tribune
A rescue helicopter hovers in front of the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, on March 24, 2015 in this still image taken from TV. An Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in a remote area of... REUTERS/BFM via Reuters TV Germanwings confirmed its flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf went down with 144 passengers and six crew on board. One of the plane's black box recorders has been found and will be examined immediately, France's interior minister said. In Washington, the White House said the crash did not appear to have been caused by a terrorist attack. Spain's deputy prime minister said 45 passengers had Spanish names. "We saw an aircraft that had literally been ripped apart, the bodies are in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage," Bruce Robin, prosecutor for the city of Marseille, told Reuters in Seyne-les-Alpes after flying... French police at the crash site said no one survived and it would take days to recover the bodies due to difficult terrain, snow and incoming storms. It's unlikely any bodies will be airlifted until Wednesday," regional police chief David Galtier told Reuters. Source: www.duluthnewstribune.com
