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 during a scheduled flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, with no known survivors.
- Investigators are probing why the aircraft initiated an apparent "controlled descent" from 38,000 feet for approximately eight minutes without issuing a distress call.
- The lack of a distress call and the controlled nature of the descent have led to speculation regarding pilot incapacitation or an uncommunicated onboard emergency.
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