LIVE. Germanwings A320 crash: 150 dead, according to … – The Point

. 13 h 52 numbers have been set up for relatives of passengers. From Germany: 0 80011 3355 77, from Spain: 902 400 012.

13 h 47 . “We leave the crisis led by the Prime Minister and we pay on the spot with Bernard Cazeneuve,” said the deputy of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Christophe Castaner.

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13: 45 . According to La Provence , the aircraft Airbus A-320-211 named “Mannheim”, registration D-AIPX was the end of life for commercial flights. Its first flight took place November 29, 1990 and its first commercial flight on 6 February 1991. The average age of a civilian airliner is 25 years.

13 h 43 . A new balance reported 150 dead, 144 passengers and 6 crew members, said the head of the company in a brief televised statement.

. 13 h 40 Francois Hollande told there “would be no French victims,” ​​but not “absolute certainty.” The President reacted to the cancellation of the State visit of Felipe VI. “King was a great honor because it was his first state visit to a European country. France, We’ll always have at heart to make this extraordinary visit,” he said.

13 h 38 According to the government of Mariano Rajoy, who set. up a crisis forty-five victims are of Spanish nationality. The visit of the Spanish king Felipe VI in France was interrupted.

13 h 35 According to rescuers on site, the remains of. A320 would be scattered over two square kilometers ^{. This suggests that the plane broke apart on contact – very violent – with the ground. The crew would not have control of the device and could not negotiate the contact with the ground.}

13 h 33 . Angela Merkel said she was “shocked”. The German chancellor, who spoke on the phone with French President Francois Hollande and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, has canceled its “other appointments.” The German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt and Ambassador of Germany to Paris were off to visit the scene of the accident.

13 h 30 The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is “appalled. “. “Appalled by the plane crash in the Alps. A tragedy,” wrote Mariano Rajoy rely on his Twitter. “We are working with the French and German authorities in the investigation” into the accident in which none of the passengers survived the French authorities.

13 h 29 Bruno Lambert, mountain guide in the municipality of Prads-Haute-Bléone where the crash of the A320 took place, told The Provence that this is a very large town, “seven or eight hamlets”, which explains that many people have not heard the crash. He himself did not hear. “The land where the crash occurred is very alpine, still very steep and avalanche at that time. There are 10 minutes, an avalanche has taken place.”

13 h 20 . Fabrice, a witness, told the RTL: “The plane passed low attitude … There, now it’s half an hour, three quarters of an hour there was always police cars, the police, firefighters, the prefecture that go up the mountains … We see where it happened apparently. We, we are still in the plain and on, it’s a mountain massif which is at about 3000 meters above sea level. It is true that the aircraft was very low … To crow flies, it is 5 kilometers from where it happened … ”

13 h 18 The Germanwings company changed the color of her photos. profile on Twitter and Facebook. They went from red and yellow, its original colors, a black gray gradient

. 13 h 7 . During the flight, the Airbus Germanwings was in radio contact with Marseille control, area control center air traffic in Aix-en-Provence. The pilot initiated a distress message ( mayday, mayday, mayday ) and asked at the same time, an emergency descent. This means that for the controller must clear all airspace in the path of the airplane. An emergency descent takes place at 5000 feet / minute in general. However, the aircraft Germanwings is down to 3375 feet / minute, measured between levels 380 and 110 (about 13 000 to 3500 meters).

It may be that this descent was moderate, perhaps because of structural damage, such as a window or a door torn. The certification of the Airbus expects the emergency descent should be done in four minutes. Emergency descents are usually caused by a loss of pressurization

. 13 h 3 . Our infographic on the crash.

. 12 h 59 Francois Hollande on Tuesday expressed support for Chancellor Angela Merkel, he joined the phone after the plane crash Germanwings in France that would have 148 dead. The president “expressed his full support” to the Chancellor, while the ambassador from Germany to France, Susanne Wasum-Rainer, will visit the scene of the crash with French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

12 h 58 . The airline Germanwings will hold a press conference near the airport Cologne-Bonn to 15 hours. The unit that crashed is the same type as this one:

12 h 49 . Pierre-Henry Brandet, spokesman for the Interior Ministry said on RTL that “the aircraft debris were located, and it is feared an extremely heavy toll.” “The first evidence of rescuers suggest that the number of survivors, if any, will be extremely low,” he continued. “As long as land resources have not arrived, we can not say with certainty. Rescuers were helicopter, it is a huge system of several hundred men with local and national resources.”

12 h 46 . Alain Vidal, Secretary of State for Transport, Sea and Fisheries, announced that “there are no survivors.” “There was a distress call recorded at 10 h 47. distress signal showed that the aircraft was at 5000 feet, in an abnormal situation,” said Alain Vidal, who said that the crash had occurred “shortly after” the signal. “The plane crashed in the mountains of Estrop. This is an area that is snowy, inaccessible by vehicles, but that could be flown by helicopters,” said the Secretary of State.

12 h 44 . Lufthansa boss announces, “We do not yet know what happened.” My deepest sympathy to the families and friends of the passengers and crew (…). If our fears are confirmed, it is a black day for Lufthansa. We hope to find survivors. “