Today, a German airliner crashed near a ski resort in the French Alps, killing all 150 people onboard, in the worst plane disaster in mainland France in four decades. France’s junior transport minister said there were “no survivors” from the crash of the Germanwings Airbus A320, a low-cost subsidiary of Lufthansa, in a remote part of the Alps that is extremely difficult to access. Civil aviation authorities said they lost contact with the plane, which was carrying 144 passengers and six crew, and declared it was in distress at 10:30 am (1500 IST).
