Overview: This is what we now know about the plane crash
It was called the Nose Landing Door, a door on the fuselage of the aircraft. That has a spokeswoman for Lufthansa, Germanwings parent prizefighter, confirmed Tuesday.
According to the spokesperson the defect had nothing to do with safety, but caused the noise.
The magazine Der Spiegel wrote Tuesday on his website that some crew members had after the disaster, out of concern for their safety Tuesday decided not to go to work, but according to the Lufthansawoordvoerster they landed only personal reasons. The union of pilots said that it had not known about commanders refused to fly.
Quest discontinued
The Airbus A320 of the German airline with on board 144 passengers and six crew members crashed down in the French Alps. All occupants, including a 20-year-old Dutch woman from Deurne, are thereby killed.
The ten helicopters engaged in the search for the wreckage of the crashed plane Germanwings, have suspended their search at nightfall. They go at dawn again in the air, the French authorities informed. The devices have five gendarmes at the inhospitable hilltop area placed where the device has crashed.
The cause of the accident is still unknown. The French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, confirmed Tuesday around 17:45 that one of the two black boxes was found.
Germans
CEO Thomas Winkelmann Germanwings said at a news conference that an estimated 67 passengers were German nationals.
Germanwings first light the next of kin before being released a list of names of the occupants. The company is still looking for confirmation of the identity of people who have booked through travel agents, made spokesman Winkelmann known.
However, the German airline confirms that two babies were in the unit. Among the victims are further sixteen students and two teachers from a German gymnasium in Haltern am See, who had stayed for a week in exchange Llinars del Vallès near Barcelona.
Spaniards and Turks
Spanish authorities argue that there were 45 people with a Spanish surname on the plane. It is unclear whether these are all Spaniards.
Also, 39 Turks stepped on board, Turkish media report. The Belgian authorities have confirmed that there is one Belgian was on board. It is possible that passengers are double counted because they have two passports.
Video: Sure 67 Germans aboard disaster unit
Koenders
Foreign Minister Bert Koenders says it can not be excluded that there are more Dutch died in the crash. That is not imaginary, because Düsseldorf airport is not far from the Netherlands and Germanwings budget daughter of the great German company Lufthansa, also in Dutch is popular.
A crisis of Foreign Affairs and employees in France and Germany comply with the plane crash busy and search among more out whether more Dutch were on the plane.
Barcelona to Düsseldorf
The device with flight number 4U9525 was left at 10:00 delayed from Barcelona to Düsseldorf as a destination. Forty-five minutes after leaving the plane crashed down at the place Prads-Haute-Bléone, north of Digne-les-Bains.
According to the French authorities, the plane disintegrated into pieces and the pieces are spread over an area of about two kilometers. The largest wreck document found, is about as big as a passenger car.
According to French President Francois Hollande can salvage the victims take days. Many hundreds of firefighters and gendarmes are responsible for the operation
Video: Emergency services are on site
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Delay
The Airbus A320 is a large passenger aircraft with capacity for 174 passengers. The unit Germanwings, a budget airline and a subsidiary of Lufthansa, was built in 1990 and delivered in 1991 to Lufthansa. Manufacturer Airbus has announced soon with more information.
The captain of the aircraft had 10 years of experience and has more than 6,000 flying hours, showed CEO Thomas Winkelmann of society at a press conference.
The last routine check on the device is performed last night in Dusseldorf. The last big check was in the summer of 2013. The device is early Tuesday flew to Barcelona.
The route Germanwings flew from the device was not unusual. Monday flew an A320 with the same flight number still the same route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. A spokesman for the airline says that there is no evidence of terrorism
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rapid decline
From flight that the vessel prior to the crash in about eight minutes of cruising altitude (approximately ten kilometers altitude) fell into a nosedive to a height of two kilometers. At that time the French lost radar contact with the plane.
At the press conference, Germanwings know still have no idea why the unit has entered into a nosedive. “We also want to speculate on the circumstances.” The airline says that there were no problems with the plane before it took off.
Merkel
President Hollande has already briefly spoken to German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express his support. Hollande, Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy meet Wednesday at the scene.
Düsseldorf Airport, in connection with the crash opened an emergency number. 0800-7766350 is available for victims. The German Foreign Ministry has also opened an emergency number: 00- 49 – 30-5000 3000
On having Barcelona airport reported about 150 relatives of passengers of flight 4U 9525 Tuesday morning in France crashed. . The airport authorities have arranged special care for the people who had come to the airport to get more information about the fate of their relatives
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A320
Since 1988, there are six major accidents – plane crashes with dozens of victims – was with the A320. On December 28, 162 people were killed when an Airbus A320 AirAsia in the Java Sea collapsed. The accident is the first major aviation incident in France since the crash of a Concorde in 2000.
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