There are doubts about the exact time of the accident.
The plane was carrying 150 people: 144 passengers and 6 crew members.
All died in the crash. Victims of Spanish nationality, German and Turkish, according to François Hollande, President of the French Republic.
scheduled 4U9525 took off an hour earlier in Barcelona (Spain) and headed Düsseldorf (Germany) where the landing was expected at 11:55.
After reaching cruising speed, the plane would have lost nearly 10 000 meters for 8 minutes before the crash. This happened more than 1600 meters.
The plane crashed in the mountains in a steep area inaccessible by car. Which delayed the rescue operation.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the aircraft in distress, from 10:30 to 10:47, while flying near the town of Barcelonnette, as it does had no contact with the crew.
According to Meteo France, the weather conditions were good in the area at the time of the crash. The sky was bright and clear.
A plane put into service 25 years ago
The low-cost carrier has formalized the crash after 14h through a press release. He launched an emergency phone number: 0800 11 33 55 77 .
A hotline for families was also opened by the French authorities: 0800 00 97 85 .
According to information from Flightradar24.com, the plane was an Airbus A320-211 registered D-AIPX.
On Planesportters.net, we learn that he has made its first flight in November 1990. He was then delivered to Lufthansa in early February 1991.
The unit was thus in service for nearly 25 years. But for now, nothing says that the accident was due to his seniority.
The Spanish daily Hoy site issues, he assumed the exterior of the aircraft sensors gel. An incident that occurred in November 2014 on a Lufthansa A321 that made the connection between Bilbao (Spain) and Munich (Germany).
The LH1829 flight with 109 passengers on board had lost almost 1200 meters above sea level in just over a minute because of the freezing of its external probes.
The pilots decided to take manual control of the aircraft and an emergency landing.
A qualified serious incident by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and that led Airbus, the aircraft manufacturer, to issue a security bulletin to warn drivers and explain what to do in this case.
Lufthansa had decided to replace the external sensors on 80 of its aircraft.
As a reminder, this is also the freezing of the outdoor temperature sensor (pitot) that caused the crash of Air France flight from Rio to Paris on June 1, 2009.
worst air accident since 1981
She adds that the pilot had flown more than 6 000 hours on A320 Lufthansa and Germanwings in 10 years.
We contacted several air specialists who do not wish to move too hastily to conclusions. Among their best estimate assumptions: a serious technical problem, an explosion in flight or a malicious act.
We will not know the exact circumstances of the accident that once analyzed black box or a possible claim.
The Pole “collective accident” the Marseille Parquet was seized.
But now we can already say that it is the deadliest plane crash in France for 34 years. 180 people died in 1981 in the crash of a DC-9-81, near Ajaccio.
The most important air disaster that has ever happened in France was held March 3, 1974 in Oise: A Turkish Airlines plane crashed with 346 people on board .
The last crash on French territory was that of the Concorde, a few minutes after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle (CDG) on 25 July 2000. 109 people died in the crash.
The previous fatal accident in which an A320 was involved in France occurred January 20, 1992 at Mont Sainte-Odile. 87 of the 96 passengers were killed there.
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