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Members of the media present live coverage at night in a field several kilometers from the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, in the French Alps. REUTERS/Robert Pratta
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Family members Germanwings plane crash victims leave Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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Family members Germanwings plane crash victims leave Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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German airlines Lufthansa's Heike Birlenbach (C), Vice President Sales and Services Europe, leaves a news conference held in Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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(Reuters) - Students and teachers at a small-town German high school broke down in tears once they realized that 16 classmates and two teachers were on board an ill-fated Germanwings airplane that crashed in France on Tuesday on a flight to Duesseldorf.
The 10th grade students from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school were on their way home after a week-long Spanish exchange program at the Institut Giola in Llinars del Vallès near Barcelona. It was a reciprocal visit after 12 Spanish students had spent a week at their school in December.
"It was a Spanish language exchange program and they were flying home after having what was probably the most wonderful time of their lives," said Sylvia Loehrmann, the education minister for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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A student places a lit candle outside the Josef-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in Haltern am See. REUTERS/Kirsten Neumann
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A rescue helicopter from the French Gendarmerie flies over the French Alps during a rescue operation near to the crash site of an Airbus A320. REUTERS/Robert Pratta
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The Airbus A320 is the workhorse of Europe's aerospace industry, transporting more than a million people a day from business travelers to backpackers.
The 150-seat medium-haul jet is one of the world's most intensively used together with its main rival, the Boeing 737.
- Read more by Tim Hepher of the Reuters Aerospace team here
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Lufthansa says working on assumption plane crash was an accident
(Reuters) - German airlines Lufthansa said it was working on the assumption that the crash of a plane from its affiliate Germanwings in the French Alps on Tuesday was an accident and that any other theory would be speculative.
"For the time being, we say it's an accident. There's nothing more that we can say right now. Everything else would be speculation," Heike Birlenbach, Vice President Sales and Services Europe, told a news conference in El Prat Barcelona airport, from where the crashed plane took off.
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Airbus Group Chief Executive Officer Tom Enders (2ndR) arrives on a field near to the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, in the French Alps. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot
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Black box from Germanwings crash in French Alps found: minister
(Reuters) - French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday that one of the black boxes from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps has been found.
"A black box that we found a few hours after the crash will immediately be examined to help the investigation move forward quickly," he told reporters.
He said the crash site would be secured this evening to ensure emergency services could more easily enter the area.
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Germanwings crash doesn't appear to be terror attack, White House: Fox News
(Reuters) - The crash of a Germanwings Airbus in a remote area of the French Alps on Tuesday does not appear to have been caused by a terror attack, the White House said, according to a report by Fox News.
"There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time," the cable network quoted White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan as saying.
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French fire brigade rescue units gather in a field near a farm buidling as they prepare to reach the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, in the French Alps. REUTERS/Robert Pratta
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A French rescue helicopter from the French Gendarmerie hovers above a field where Alpine rescue forces gather in front of the French Alps during a rescue operation next to the crash site of an Airbus A320. REUTERS/Jean-Peal Pelissier
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Germanwings says had no problem with crashed plane before takeoff
(Reuters) - Germanwings said it was unclear what caused its Airbus A320 aircraft to crash in the French Alps on Tuesday but that there had been no problems with the plane before takeoff.
"There were no anomalies on the plane," the Lufthansa unit's Managing Director Thomas Winkelmann told journalists at a news conference on Tuesday, hours after the crash.
He said Airbus delivered the plane to Lufthansa in 1991, after which it flew exclusively for the German flagship carrier until it was transferred to Germanwings' fleet last year. [ID:
That makes the aircraft older than the 11.5-year average age of Lufthansa's fleet of 615 planes.
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U.S. reviewing whether any Americans on Germanwings flight: State Dept
(Reuters) - The United States is reviewing whether any U.S. citizens were aboard the Airbus operated by Lufthansa's (LHAG.DE) Germanwings budget airline that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said in a statement.
"The United States stands ready to offer assistance and support to the governments of France, Germany, and Spain as they investigate this tragedy," department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in the statement.
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Members of the French government and deputies observe a minute of silence during a session at the National Assembly in Paris March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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All people on board a Lufthansa Airbus are feared dead after it crashed a in remote area of French Alps.
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French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (C) and officials arrive by helicopter on a field next to the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, in the French Alps. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash react at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash arrive at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino
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Passengers are silhouetted against a window at the Germanwings check-in desk at Dusseldorf airport. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
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Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash are escorted by Regional Catalan Police officers as they arrive at Barcelona's El Prat airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash are escorted by Regional Catalan Police officers as they arrive at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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A general view shows the snow-covered French Alps during a rescue operation near the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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French Police and Gendarmerie Alpine rescue units gather on a field as they prepare to reach the crash site of an Airbus A320. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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French Police and Gendarmerie Alpine rescue units gather on a field as they prepare to reach the crash site of an Airbus A320. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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A rescue helicopter from the French Securite Civile flies over the French Alps during a rescue operation near the crash site of an Airbus A320. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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Rescue helicopters from the French Securite Civile and the Air Force are seen in front of the French Alps during a rescue operation near to the crash site of an Airbus A320. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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A rescue helicopter from the French Securite Civile flies over the French Alps during a rescue operation after the crash of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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No theories yet on cause of plane crash: French police at crash site
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Recovery of bodies from France plane crash will "take days" due to difficult terrain: French police at crash site
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No survivors in France plane crash: French police at crash site
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Germanwings says there should be no issue with the age of the airplane.
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Germanwings says believes 67 Germans were among crash victims, that number could change.
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Germanwings voices deepest condolences for people who lost family members.
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Germanwings says team from Lufthansa, Airbus, Germanwings on way right now to crash site.
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Airbus says crashed A320 aircraft had accumulated approx. 58,300 flight hours in some 46,700 flights.
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Germanwings said flight lost contact with French air traffic control when was at 6,000 feet
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BREAKING: Germanwings said captain had been flying with Germanwings and Lufthansa for 10 years.
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BREAKING: Germanwings says plane was checked by Lufthansa technicians yesterday
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BREAKING: 16 schoolchildren, two teachers may have been on crashed Germanwings plane: German town Haltern
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An Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashes in southern France en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, carrying 142 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew.
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A police officer escorts a man believed to be a family member of a passenger on the Germanwings plane as he arrives at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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