German Plane Carrying 148 Crashes in Southern France
A German plane carrying 142 passengers and six crew members from Barcelona to Düsseldorf crashed Tuesday in southern France, the French civil aviation authority confirmed.
The wreckage of the aircraft, an Airbus A320 operated by Germanwings, a budget subsidiary of Lufthansa, was located by a French military helicopter near the town of Prads-Haute-Bléone, according to Eric Héraud, a spokesman for the French civil aviation authority.
The pilots declared an emergency at 10:47 a.m. local time while descending rapidly from a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet to around 5,000 feet, while flying over the town of Barcelonnette in the Alpes de Haute Provence region, Mr. Héraud said.
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