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Monitoring Desk: A Germanwings Airbus A320 with 142 passengers and six crew members has crashed in Digne region, southern France. RT news reported that wreckage of flight has been located deep in mountains. Flight GWI9525 Airbus A320 lost contact with flight tracking system over Alps and its sudden descend was recorded by tracking system.
24 years and 4 months old A320 Flight #4U9525 departed Barcelona, Spain at 10:00 hours CET on a regular passenger service to Düsseldorf, Germany. The flight reached its cruising altitude of FL380 at 10:27 hours. Starting 10:31 hours, the airplane began losing altitude. Last recorded position by flight tracking website Flightradar24 was over southern France at 10:40 hours CET. Jet has 2 CFMI CFM56-5A1 engines.
French President has condoled the incident with the nation in his twitter message.
Je veux exprimer aux familles des victimes de cet accident aérien toute ma solidarité. C’est un deuil, une tragédie.
— François Hollande (@fhollande) March 24, 2015
The flight of Germanwings low-cost airline, was flying from Düsseldorf to Barcelona. The plane crash in the French Alps was confirmed by General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Meanwhile the France Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed the plane crash and is headed to the scene, local TV reported. |The airliner was flying from Barcelona, Spain, to Germany’s city of Dusseldorf when it disappeared from the radars in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France. Distress call had been received 13 minutes before Airbus A320 came down”, reports Sputnik news agency of Russia. Germanwings in a twitter message advised people to follow information on its website that came down due to heavy traffic and bandwidth issue (HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.) just after 20 minutes of the twit. Available tracking date suggested extreme and sudden descend of the jet flight over Alps. Flighttrader24 showed last position of ill fated flight in Alps mountains.
Last position of Germanwings flight #4U9525 at 09:40 UTC http://t.co/FHoX6q0GHt pic.twitter.com/72pxGKolRM — Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 24, 2015
Germanwings offers low-cost flight within Europe. Germanwings twitter was saying (after the news was confirmed about the crash) that there are speculation about the crash of its flight and it will share information with media after getting information.
INFO: We have recently become aware of media reports speculating on an incident though we still do not have any own confirmed information…
— Germanwings (@germanwings) March 24, 2015
According to Wikipedia, Germanwings GmbH is a low-cost airline based in Cologne, which is wholly owned by Lufthansa. Its main hubs are Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport and Düsseldorf Airport; further bases are Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.
In January 2013, Lufthansa started to move its entire short-haul operations outside its main hubs in Frankfurt and Munich to Germanwings.
In 2012 Lufthansa announced that it plans to transfer point-to-point shorthaul flights operating from cities other than Frankfurt and Munich from Lufthansa to Germanwings.[6] Therefore the company received a revised corporate design. The transfer of Lufthansa’s shorthaul routes takes place between spring 2013 and autumn 2014 with Düsseldorf Airport being the last base to be transferred from March 2014.