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3rd worst aviation incident in France.
Status: Preliminary
Date: Tuesday 24 March 2015
Time: 10:40
Type:
Airbus A320-211
Operator: Germanwings
Registration: D-AIPX
C/n / msn: 147
First flight: 1990-11-29 (24 years 4 months)
Total airframe hrs: 58300
Cycles: 46700
Engines: 2 CFMI CFM56-5A1
Crew: Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Passengers: Fatalities: 144 / Occupants: 144
Total: Fatalities: 150 / Occupants: 150
Airplane damage: Damaged beyond repair
Location: near Barcelonette ( France)
Phase: En route (ENR)
Nature: International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Barcelona–El Prat Airport (BCN/LEBL), Spain
Destination airport: Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS/EDDL), Germany
Flightnumber: 4U9525
Narrative:
An Airbus A320 operated by Germanwings crashed in a mountainous area in southern France.
Flight 4U9525 departed Barcelona, Spain at 10:00 hours local time (09:00 CET) on a regular passenger service to Düsseldorf, Germany. The flight reached its cruising altitude of FL380 at 10:27 hours. Starting at 10:31 hours, the airplane began losing altitude. Last recorded position by flight tracking website Flightradar24 was over southern France at 10:40 hours CET. The aircraft impacted a very steep, rugged mountainside in the French Alps at an altitude of about 1500 m (4920 feet).
According the French president François Hollande there were no survivors. The French aviation authority, DGAC, stated that the crew did not report an emergency to air traffic control.
Heard about that plane crash and something like the pilot got locked out of the cockpit when he went to the bathroom...how tragic.
(26 Mar 2015, 6:18 pm)Adam wrote [ -> ]The French authorities are now saying the co-pilot crashed the plane deliberately.
Apparently confirmed by the black-box recording.