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Germanwings Flight 9525
The aircraft in September 2013, shortly before with new Germanwings.
Date24 March 2015 (2015-03-24)
Siteunknown
Aircraft
Aircraft typeAirbus A320-211
OperatorGermanwings
RegistrationD-AIPX
Flight originBarcelona–El Prat Airport, Spain
DestinationDüsseldorf Airport, Germany
Passengers142
Crew6
Fatalitiesunknown
Survivorsunknown

Germanwings Flight 9525 (4U9525) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf that crashed on 24 March 2015 near Digne-les-Bains around 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of the city of Nice, with 142 passengers and 6 crew on board. The flight aircraft D-AIPX was operated by Germanwings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was an Airbus A320-200 reg D-AIPX has made first flight on 29 November 1990 and was delivered to Lufthansa in February 1991 and served with Germanwings for the first time in 2003. It was returned to Lufthansa in 2004 and was brought by new Germanwings in January 2014.

Response

  • French President Francois Hollande made a statement said: "The conditions of the accident, which have not yet been clarified, lead us to think there are no survivors." He called the crash a tragedy and called for solidarity. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he had despatched the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to the scene and set-up a ministerial crisis cell to co-ordinate the incident.

References

  1. "D-AIPX". Flightradar24. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. ^ BFMTV. "Un Airbus A320 transportant 148 personnes s'écrase près de Digne-les-Bains". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Germanwings airliner crashes in French Alps". BBC News. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  4. "Germanwings plane crashes in France, up to 150 feared dead". Reuters. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
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