A Germanwings Airbus A320 carrying at least 142 passengers and six crew members crashed in southern France on Tuesday. The aircraft, with the call sign 4U9525, was traveling from Barcelona to Dusseldorf.
French Transport Minister Alain Vidalies reportedly said that the plane sent out a....
distress signal at an altitude of 5,000 feet, "in an abnormal situation," adding that the crash took place shortly after the distress call. French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said that debris from the plane crash had been located, and that the crash site's remoteness could trigger "an extremely long and extremely difficult" search and rescue operation.
According to Flightradar24, an aircraft-tracking site, the plane went off radar near Digne in southern France. Search and rescue teams are headed to the crash site at Meolans-Revels, Eric Ciotti, head of the regional council, said, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Meanwhile, the French transport ministry said that German air safety experts are on the way to the crash site, according to Reuters.
France's transport minister reportedly said that the plane had sent a distress signal. According to Flightradar24, the plane initially climbed to 38,000 feet before it began descending at a rate of about 3,000 feet to 4,000 feet per minute, following which it lost radar contact at an altitude of 6,800 feet.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reportedly said that most of the passengers on board Flight 4U9525 were German nationals. Germanwings is a Cologne, Germany-based low-cost carrier owned by Lufthansa.
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Very Sad! Hope we get to have survivors! Our prayers and thoughts with the families involved!
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