France's
president said Tuesday that no one was likely to have survived the crash
of a passenger plane with 148 people on board that went down in the
French Alps.
In a live briefing, Francois Hollande said the area of the crash was
remote and it was not clear whether anyone on the ground had been hurt.
The Airbus 320 operated by Germanwings had crashed while flying to
Dusseldorf, Germany from Barcelona, Spain with 142 passengers and six
crew members on board. Germanwings is the budget airline run by
Lufthansa and primarily used by Europeans for booking weekend getaways
or business trips.
"It's a tragedy on our soil," said Hollande, who added that he would
be speaking shortly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as it was
probable that most of the victims were German.
France's interior ministry, reported that debris from the plane
had been found near a village in the region. Eric Ciotti, the head of
the regional council, said search-and-rescue teams were headed to the
crash site at Meolans-Revels.
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