Independent:
Sébastien Giroud, owner of saw-works near the crash site in Prads, told our correspondent John Lichfield that he had glimpsed the plane for two or three seconds as it struggled over the village.
“It was very low, only 1,500 or 2,000 metres and it
seemed to be falling. I said to myself: ‘that’s not going to make it over the
mountains. I never heard a thing.”
Independent:
Germanwings say they are themselves unsure whether the distress call was issued by the plane’s crew or air traffic controllers and have no information on why the aircraft apparently started to descend.
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Germanwings holds live press conference
Airline Germanwings is now holding a live press conference on the crash.
It has been confirmed that two babies were among the 150 people on board.
The plane fell into a “deep descent” which lasted eight minutes.
The captain was a pilot who had been flying with Germanwings and Lufthansa for 10 years.