Winkelmann confirmed the 16 students and two teachers were on the plane. A crisis center has been established at the city hall in Haltern, which is about 77 kilometers (48 miles) north of Dusseldorf’s airport. Sixteen students and two teachers from one German high school, called Joseph Koenig Gymnasium, were among those booked on Flight 9525, according to Florian Adamik, a municipal official in Haltern, the town where the school is located. Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann said it’s believed 67 people, or nearly half those on the plane, are German citizens. Those aboard included a “high number of Spaniards, Germans and Turks,” according to Spain’s King Felipe VI. “There will be a contact center established in France relatives who would like to take advantage of this will be transferred to the contact center at no cost – and their accommodation paid for – just as soon as the center has been established,” Lufthansa said. Lufthansa Group said the company will look after the relatives of those on board. French authorities set up a chapel near the crash site. Relatives of those believed to be on the flight, fearing the worst, gathered at the Barcelona airport, where a crisis center was set up. “We don’t know much about the flight and the crash yet,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. One of the aircraft’s data recorders, the so-called black boxes, has been found, according to French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, but it was too early to tell what it would say about the crash. As of Tuesday evening, there were few clues. Spanish and German officials moved to join hundreds of French firefighters and police in the area, working together to help in the recovery effort and try to figure out exactly what happened. Wednesday may not be much easier, with snow in the forecast. Helicopter crews found the airliner in pieces, none of them bigger than a small car, and human remains strewn for several hundred meters, according to Gilbert Sauvan, a high-level official in the Alpes de Haute Provence region who is being briefed on the operation.Īuthorities were not able to retrieve any bodies Tuesday, with the frozen ground complicating the effort. ET) in a remote area near Digne-les-Bains in the Alpes de Haute Provence region. Tuesday from Barcelona, Spain, for Dusseldorf, Germany, with 144 passengers – among them two babies – and six crew members.
Last known speed: 480 mph Last known altitude: 11,400 feet Last known location: Near Digne-les-Bains, France, in the Alpsįlight 9525 took off just after 10 a.m.
Passengers: 150 (144 passengers, six crew members) Airplane: Airbus A320 (twin-jet) Airline: Germanwings (budget airline owned by Lufthansa) Flight distance: 726 miles Last known tracking data: 10:38 a.m. (26 minutes late) Destination: Scheduled to land in Dusseldorf, Germany, at 11:39 a.m. Departure: Barcelona, Spain, at 10:01 a.m.
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