Germanwings Flight 9525 (4U9525/GWI9525), operated by Lufthansa-owned low-cost airline Germanwings was on a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf on 24 March 2015, the aircraft serving that flight, an Airbus A320-200, crashed around 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of Nice, in the French Alps. All 144 passengers and six crew were killed.
It is the third-deadliest crash of an Airbus A320, after TAM Airlines Flight 3054 and Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, and the third-deadliest aviation disaster on French soil, after Turkish Airlines Flight 981 and Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308. It is the deadliest aviation accident in 2015, with the highest death toll of any aviation incident since December 2014.On 24 March 2015, at 10:47 CET the 24-year-old Airbus A320-211 with registration D-AIPX en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf (4U9525) crashed in the south of France nearDigne-les-Bains. The flight was carrying a total of 144 passengers, two pilots, and four cabin crew.
The Airbus came down in a remote, snow-covered mountainous region - reaching about 2,000m high - near the popular ski resort of Pra Loup in the Alps.
Weather at the time of the crash was described as calm, but it deteriorated in the hours after the crash and there are forecasts of snow on Wednesday (25 March).
The BBC's Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott says it seems most likely mechanical failure was behind the crash.
The "black box" flight recorder, which was discovered at the crash site and contains details of the flight, will be passed to investigators in the hope that it will provide answers about the cause.
Every plane carries two flight recorders, one which records voices in the cockpit and the other records flight data. It is not yet clear which recorder has been found
The single-aisle A320 typically seats 150 to 180 people. According to France's junior transport minister Alain Vidalies, all 150 passengers and crew died. The aircraft crashed in the Estrop range, an area that is inaccessible to (ground) vehicles, but which can be overflown by helicopters. A rescuer in a rescue helicopter that reached the scene said that the plane was in pieces and that "the largest debris is the size of a car. Germanwings stated that 144 passengers and six crew were onboard. Some witnesses in the mountains state that they heard a low-flying plane making a strange noise; they said it sounded like a plane flying very fast.German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande gave their condolences. Germanwings changed the colour of their logo on their website to black and white
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