A tragic Tuesday----A Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crashed today in the foothills of the Alps in southeastern France, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told reporters.
According to the french Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, all passengers (142 passengers and six crew members) aboard the flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany may be dead. As the plane crashed near Digne-les-Bains, in the Alpes de Haute Provence region
In addition French President Francois Hollande said no survivors were expected. "The conditions of the accident are not yet clear but lead us to believe there will be no survivors." Hollande said.
The Airbus carried a "high number of Spaniards, Germans and Turks" on the doomed Germanwings flight.
A spokesperson for the French civil aviation authority said Air traffic controllers sent out a distress signal after controllers became concerned at the loss of radio contact with the doomed Germanwings plane and the speed of the plane's descent.
According to airline executive Thomas
Winkelmann, those on Tuesday's fallen Germanwings plane include 67
German citizens, Two babies were among those on board; but "this figure may change" when the passenger list is
checked with relatives.
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