Airbus A320 has crashed in the French Alps

Germanwings airliner crashes in French Alps

An Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps near Digne, French aviation officials and police have said.
The jet belongs to the German low-cost airline Germanwings.
The plane was reported to be carrying 142 passengers and six crew members.

RIP...airbus again.

Germanwings GmbH is a German 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.

Since 2013 Germanwings offers three fare types called Basic, Smart and Best which include different services. While Basic is a classic no-frills offer that features hand-luggage only and no free catering, Best includes hold baggage, free snacks and drinks as well as access to some lounges for tier members of Miles&More. Therefore Smart and Best are more or less comparable to the product that Lufthansa offered on the routes taken over by Germanwings. The fleet is equipped with economy class only.

Germanwings operates the additional Sky Bistro (Bord Shop in German), a buy on board programme offering food and drinks for purchase. The airline also provides an inflight magazine, a bi-monthly German and English magazine called GW. While the primary editorial focus is rooted in Germanwings destinations, the content is not exclusively about travel.

As for its booking services, Germanwings provides a unique option called Blind Booking that allows passengers to choose one of Germanwings' base airports, select a category of destination (e.g. Party, Gay-friendly or Culture), and then purchase a round-trip ticket via a random lottery process from among the cities in the category. Such tickets are often priced lower than the corresponding ticket to the same destination, and Germanwings e-mails its customers their destination shortly after the purchase.

Flight 4U9525 Barcelona to Dusseldorf

JHolmesJr said:

RIP...airbus again.

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50-50 American or French.

Germanwings A320 D-AIPX is one of the oldest A320 with serial number 0147 and was delivered in Nov 1990
Flight 4U9525

life is such unpredicatable.

We cannot born on the same year, month and day but could die on the same year, month and day.

不能同年同月同日生 可能同年同月同日死

singveld said:

Germanwings GmbH is a German 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.

Since 2013 Germanwings offers three fare types called Basic, Smart and Best which include different services. While Basic is a classic no-frills offer that features hand-luggage only and no free catering, Best includes hold baggage, free snacks and drinks as well as access to some lounges for tier members of Miles&More. Therefore Smart and Best are more or less comparable to the product that Lufthansa offered on the routes taken over by Germanwings. The fleet is equipped with economy class only.

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God decides.

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Eek! when a dictator goes he must take 148 people with him!

Knew this kinds of things would happen.

LIVE: Lufthansa-owned Germanwings Airbus A320 crashes in France, 148 feared dead

Another plane crash: 148 dead

France plane crash: No survivors expected, French President says

By Jason Hanna and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Updated 8:11 AM ET, Tue March 24, 2015


Source: CNN


Reports: Commercial plane crashes in French Alps 02:22




Story highlights

• No survivors expected, French President Francois Hollande says
• Mountainous terrain will make it hard to reach crash site, police say

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(CNN)A Germanwings Airbus A320 plane carrying at least 148 people crashed Tuesday in the foothills of the Alps in southeastern France, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told reporters.

Valls said he fears those aboard the flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany -- 142 passengers and six crew members -- may be dead.
French President Francois Hollande also said no survivors were expected. The plane crashed near Digne-les-Bains, in the Alpes de Haute Provence region, Valls said.
"The conditions of the accident are not yet clear but lead us to believe there will be no survivors," Hollande said.


The crash happened at about 10:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET) in mountainous terrain near the village of Prads-Haute-Bleone, French police Capt. Benoit Zeisser said.
Because of the terrain, it will be a difficult site for rescuers to access, Zeisser said. A police helicopter is in the area, he said.
Germanwings is a low-cost airline owned by the Lufthansa Group. Lufthansa has gradually been transferring many of its short-haul flights to Germanwings, with the exception of flights operated from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs.
Lufthansa said Tuesday on Twitter that "we do not yet know what has happened to flight 4U 9525."
"If our fears are confirmed, this is a dark day for Lufthansa. We hope to find survivors," Lufthansa said on Twitter.


Founded in 2002, Germanwings became a wholly owned Lufthansa subsidiary in 2009.
The twin-engine Airbus A320s, which entered service in 1988, is generally considered among the most reliable aircraft, aviation analyst David Soucie said.
The crash site is closer to Barcelona than Dusseldorf, but well into the flight. Crashes midflight are rare, as most happen near takeoff or landing, CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo said.
Plane dropped 14,000 feet in six minutes, online flight tracker shows

It is too early to know what happened, but Schiavo said there were some clues that rescuers and investigators will look at.
First is the speed of the jet's descent.
According to an online flight tracker that records altitude, the plane was at 38,000 feet, and six minutes later had dropped to 24,000 feet -- a drop of 14,000 feet.
This could indicate that there was not a stall, but that the pilot was still controlling the plane to some extent, Schiavo said.
Had there been an engine stall, the plane would have crashed in a matter of minutes, she said.
That small piece of information about the descent means that the pilot could have been trying to make an emergency landing, or that the plane was gliding with the pilot's guidance, Schiavo said.
A scenario where the plane was gliding is potentially more dangerous because wide fields for landing would be hard to come by in the mountains, she said.
Mayor: Area of crash site is sparsely populated

The mayor of the French community of Barcelonnette, near the crash site, told CNN affiliate BFMTV that emergency responders had been sent to the crash area. A helicopter has also been deployed to try to locate the precise crash site, he said.
The valley is very long and access is difficult, Barcelonnette Mayor Pierre Martin-Charpenel said. It was well populated in the 19th century but there are almost no people living there now, he said.
It's an out-of-the-way place with magnificent scenery, he said.

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didn't Germany and France agreed to join the new development bank set up by China and Russia ?

if so.............they kena what M'sia kena from Israel..........

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GOD IS MY DOG said:

didn't Germany and France agreed to join the new development bank set up by China and Russia ?

if so.............they kena what M'sia kena from Israel..........

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but UK join first, so why no crash for UK airlines.
pls check your conspiracy theory before posting.

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problem with the engine. probably bird strike.

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Germanwings has confirmed on Facebook that there were 150 people on board, 144 passengers and six crew members.

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Reuters has more on the distress call, an issue which has been causing confusion, with even Germanwings saying it was unsure whether one had been made, as it had received conflicting accounts. The news agency has spoken to the French aviation regulator, which seems to have contributed to the uncertainty:

Germanwings jetliner that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday did not issue a distress call during its rapid descent, France’s aviation regulator said.

“The aircraft did not itself make a distress call but it was the combination of the loss of radio contact and the aircraft’s descent which led the controller to implement the distress phase,” a spokesman for the DGAC authority said.

The “distress” phase is the third and most serious of three stages of alerts used to help coordinate rescue efforts when an aircraft is considered in difficulty.

Earlier, the DGAC had said the aircraft issued a distress call at 1047 local time (0947 GMT) while descending from 38,000 feet to 5,000 feet.

Summary of Germanwings press conference

Germanwings flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Düsseldorf reached its cruising altitude of 38,000ft at 10.45am, 44 minutes into the flight. Just a minute or two later, it began an unexplained descent.
The descent lasted eight minutes: contact was lost at 10.53am, when the plane was at 6,000ft. The airline does not know why the descent was initiated.
The airline is not sure whether a distress call was issued. The company spokesman said that it had conflicting information about the issue from air traffic controllers. French aviation sources have also given contradictory information on this point.
There were 144 passengers, including two babies, and six crew on board. There are believed to be 67 German nationals on board.
The aircraft was 24 years old, bought by Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, in 1991. It underwent a routine technical check by Lufthansa technicians in Düsseldorf yesterday. It had received a major inspection in the summer of 2013.
The captain had more than 10 years’ flying experience with Lufthansa and Germanwings, and had recorded more than 6,000 hours’ flying time.
A team from Germanwings is on its way to the crash site to help with the investigation.

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xpo2015 said:

problem with the engine. probably bird strike.

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bird strike at 10 000m?
Are you out of your mind.

RIP. My condolences.

JohnTan said:

RIP. My condolences.

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yes, RIP ...

if PAP were to rule Germany things like this would be impossible to happen