Investigators have begun the painstaking process of trying to determine why an Airbus A320 carrying 144 passengers and six crew members on a scheduled flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf suddenly started descending over the south of France before crashing in the French Alps.
Germanwings A320 Carrying 150 Crashes in French Alps
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Key Takeaways:
- Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320 carrying 150 people, crashed in the French Alps while en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, with no known survivors.
- The aircraft reportedly began an unexplained, controlled eight-minute descent from 38,000 feet without issuing a distress call.
- All 150 people on board are presumed dead, and investigators are en route to determine the cause of the crash, which remains unknown.
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