MARSEILLE, France – An Airbus
operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France
on Tuesday and all 148 on board were feared dead.
French President Francois Hollande said he believed none of
those on board had survived.
He said there was likely to be a significant number of
Germans on the flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
He added: “The accident happened in a zone that is
particularly hard to access.” A spokesman for France’s DGAC aviation authority said the airliner crashed near the town of Barcelonnette about 100 km (65 miles) north of the French Riviera city of Nice.
A statement from the prime minister’s office said the crash happened in Meolans-Revel, a remote and sparsely inhabited commune in the foothills of the French Alps.
The crashed A320 is 24 years old and has been with the parent Lufthansa group since 1991, according to online database airfleets.net
Source:–
Reuters
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