Reuters:
Germanwings says believes 67 Germans were among crash victims, that number could change.
Independent:
Eye-witnesses of today’s plane crash in the French Alps spoke of seeing the aircraft skim the mountain tops before it crashed far from any human habitation.
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Initial numbers suggest 67 German passengers were on board, although that has not been verified. There were also believed to be more than 40 Spaniards.
Mirror:
The CEO of Germanwings, Thomas Winkelman, is speaking at the press conference.
He is speaking slowly and his voice is trembling - he’s clearly very emotional.
He says the Germanwings plane was checked by Lufthansa engineers yesterday.
Mr Winkelman says he hopes to find out “as soon as possible” what caused the crash.
Guardian:
Germanwings is giving a press conference. Two babies were on board, the company spokesman says says.
The aeroplane left Barcelona at 10.01am and the destination was Dusseldorf. There were 144 passengers, on board, two babies and six crew members.
At 10.47am it left its travel and cruising altitude ... and entered into a descent stage. This stage lasted for a total of eight minutes. The contact between the aeroplane and the French radar (air traffic control) broke off at 10.53 ... The plane then crashed.
It’s very sad.
Two babies, but a whole class of high schoolers on a special exchange with a Spanish school were returning home. That grips my heart like a vise. All those families proud of their teens, awaiting their return... I have a teen.
“He says the Germanwings plane was checked by Lufthansa engineers yesterday.”
Did they not catch a terrorist last week who was trying to join Isis’s who worked as a mechanic for American and other airlines?