A plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings has crashed in the Southern French Alps with 150 people on board.
Here are 10 developments in this big story
- Germanwings has crashed in the Southern French Alps with 150 people on board.
- French President Francoise Hollande has told reporters that "the conditions of the accident suggest there would be no survivors."
- The Airbus 320 plane, travelling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, had 144 passengers and six crew members on board.
- The aircraft dropped off the radar at around 11 am local time, news reports said.
- President Hollande said the accident occurred in a particularly difficult area of access.
- The plane belonged to Germanwings, a popular low-cost German carrier owned by Lufthansa.
- Debris from the crashed airliner has been found, French interior ministry officials told news agency AFP. The pilot had sent a Mayday call to Air Traffic Controllers, said officials.
- A spokesman for the DGAC aviation authority said the airplane crashed near the town of Barcelonnette about 100 km (65 miles) north of the French Riviera city of Nice.
- According to the website FlightRadar24, Germanwings A320 D-AIPX was one of the oldest aircraft operated by the airline and had been with it since 1991.
- FlightRadar24, which tracks aircraft flight paths, said the flight had dropped 32,000 feet in the 9 minutes before it disappeared.
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