A Lufthansa 's Germanwings budget airline 4U9525 crashed in southern France on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, police and aviation officials said.
Germanwings confirmed that there 150 passengers onboard including two pilots and four cabin crew.
The German government said it was sending air safety experts and its transport minister to the site of the plane crash and the foreign minister said his thoughts were with victims’ relatives.
“In these difficult hours our thoughts are with all those who must fear their relatives are among the passengers or crew members,†said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Lufthansa was not immediately available for a comment.
The French transport minister, Alain Vidalies, has said that the plane crashed on the Estrop mountain range. He said:
It is a very snowy area, inaccessible to vehicles, but that can be flown over by helicopters.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy said ‘all I can tell you is that obviously I’m very sad, as many are, about this very dramatic accident. We’re going to do everything in our power to help, to hlep the families, to give them our support’.
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