PARIS: A passenger plane for the airline Germanwings flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in southern France, local media reported on Wednesday.
According to reports, the Airbus A320 making the flight for Lufthansa’s lowcost arm, Germanwings, crashed near the small mountain village of Barcelonette in the southern Alps.
It had made a distress call at 10.47am then disappeared off the radar at around 11.20am, Le Figaro reported.
At least 142 passengers and six crew-members on board.
According to French President François Hollande their was no hope left for any survivors in the plane crash.
“It’s a tragedy,” he said in a statement expressing sympathies with those affected.
According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, the aircraft which was crashed about half an hour earlier was a 24-year-old plane that previously flew with Lufthansa.
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