Guardian:
15m ago
18:46
Among those killed was opera singer Oleg Bryjak, Deutsche Oper Am Rhein director Christoph Meyer has told the Associated Press. Meyer said Bryjak was returning to Germany from a performance: “we have lost a great performer and a great person in Oleg Bryjak. We are stunned.”
The US State Department has said it cannot confirm whether there were any Americans on board the flight, and Lufthansa has said it is still working to verify passengers’ nationalities.
Nationalities per BBC (take with grain of salt given early reports are often wrong):
Germany 67
Spain 45
Turkey 39
Belgium 1
Netherlands 1
Total 150
9:00 p.m. (2000 GMT, 4:00 p.m. EDT)
French authorities have called off the search for the remains of a Germanwings airplane that crashed into the French Alps with 150 people aboard, after night fell on the hard-to-reach area.
Lt. Col. Simon-Pierre Delannoy of the regional police rescue service said on BFM television that the conditions for the search had become too difficult.
Helicopters stopped flying over the area at nightfall.
The complex search operation was expected to resume Wednesday morning.