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Airbus A320 plane crash live: Germanwings flight GWI9525 goes down near Alps in France Germanwings plane crash live: Airbus A320 flight GWI9525 goes down near Alps in France
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An Airbus A320 operated by the Germanwings airline and believed to have a capacity of up to 174 people has crashed in southern France. These are the latest updates: An Airbus A320 operated by the Germanwings airline travelling between Barcelona and Dusseldorf has crashed in southern France. These are the latest updates:
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This was the first crash by a civil airliner in France since the Concorde crash near Paris in 2000, most of whose victims were German tourists.
Mr Hollande said there were likely to be a number of German nationals on board the flight, and that he would be speaking shortly with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
"This is a tragedy on our soil," Mr Hollande said.
The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said that details of the reported crash remained unclear and that interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve was heading to the region.