An Airbus A320 with 144 people on board has crashed in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
Crash investigators, and French President Francois Hollande, said there was little hope of finding any survivors.
A total of 144 passengers were onboard the flight, including a group of 16 teenaged schoolchildren and two teachers from northern Germany.
The crash occurred in a remote mountain area and access to the site has been difficult.
The plane began descending one minute after reaching its cruising height and continued to lose altitude for eight minutes. The aircraft lost contact with French air traffic controllers at 10.53am at an altitude of about 6000 feet.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trades has no indications at this stage of any New Zealand passport-holders on the plane.
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What date was the crash? just the one thing this article was missing. but other than that all was good (//v^)
I hope everyone’s okay!
scary, I would be devastated if any of my family members were on that plane!
thats just sad hope there ok!!
im realy sorry for them
wow i would be scared if i was on that plane
wow if i were in that plane i would be scared to death but i feel sorry
for the peaple in there
sad
omg i hope the people in the plane are all right
maybe i was wrong they all died
I can’t believe that with current technology something like that. I’m so glad no New-Zealanders were on board
wow what a crash that would be i bet the people on there would be dead that would be very sad for those family member that there family or friend were on the plane wow hope that doesn’t happen again i wonder if there is a bad gang going on all the other planes and crashing them and just leaving the plane or the weather is mucking up the plane or bad people are putting wrong gas in the plane who now i hope we find out because there have been alot of plane crashing going on
So sad. I hope they are all ok.