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| Germanwings Airbus A320 downed in France: First images emerge from crash site in Alps | Germanwings Airbus A320 downed in France: First images emerge from crash site in Alps |
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| French authorities are preparing to launch a large search and rescue mission to the crash site of the downed Germanwings flight in southern France, though no survivors are expected to be found. | French authorities are preparing to launch a large search and rescue mission to the crash site of the downed Germanwings flight in southern France, though no survivors are expected to be found. |
| The Airbus A320 bound for Dusseldorf from Barcelona crashed into the Alps at around 10.47am local time on Tuesday morning, in what President Francis Hollande called “a tragedy on our soil”. | The Airbus A320 bound for Dusseldorf from Barcelona crashed into the Alps at around 10.47am local time on Tuesday morning, in what President Francis Hollande called “a tragedy on our soil”. |
| The plane crashed at an altitude of about 6,500ft in a mountainous area 100 miles north of Nice, according to French interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet, and he said the remote location will make for “an extremely long and extremely difficult” search. The first images of the crash site at Meolans-Revel have started to emerge, but show little more than a snowy stretch of the Alpine range. | |
| French firefighters prepare to take-off in Digne-les-Bains for the crash site of an Airbus A320, in the French Alps Local officials and mountain guides said the snow was “very deep” where the plane crashed, and that the area suffers regular avalanches that will hamper any recovery effort. | French firefighters prepare to take-off in Digne-les-Bains for the crash site of an Airbus A320, in the French Alps Local officials and mountain guides said the snow was “very deep” where the plane crashed, and that the area suffers regular avalanches that will hamper any recovery effort. |
| Alain Vidalies, the French transport minister, confirmed that no rescue workers have yet reached the site on foot, but that helicopters had flown over and seen bodies around the debris. | Alain Vidalies, the French transport minister, confirmed that no rescue workers have yet reached the site on foot, but that helicopters had flown over and seen bodies around the debris. |
| LIVE A French AirForce C-135 still over the area of #Germanwings Crash. http://t.co/wFg8KTSve2 pic.twitter.com/JKMsJ8wL7P | LIVE A French AirForce C-135 still over the area of #Germanwings Crash. http://t.co/wFg8KTSve2 pic.twitter.com/JKMsJ8wL7P |
| BREAKING #GermanWings Here is a photo from helicopter of the crash area /France2 journalists http://t.co/wFg8KTSve2 pic.twitter.com/RnC5gT5w40 | BREAKING #GermanWings Here is a photo from helicopter of the crash area /France2 journalists http://t.co/wFg8KTSve2 pic.twitter.com/RnC5gT5w40 |
| BREAKING Emergency units staging in Seyne-les-Alpes, near #4U9525 crash site /@Aviaponcho http://t.co/wFg8KTSve2 pic.twitter.com/NaHq3MIOlz | BREAKING Emergency units staging in Seyne-les-Alpes, near #4U9525 crash site /@Aviaponcho http://t.co/wFg8KTSve2 pic.twitter.com/NaHq3MIOlz |
| Spain's King Felipe VI, who was in France on a state visit, said he would be cutting the trip short to return to Madrid in anticipation of a prolonged search effort. “We know it was in an area where access is extremely difficult and that the search will be complicated,” he said. | |