Alps plane crash: Search and recovery operation
Key Points
- A
search and recovery operation has resumed in remote mountainous terrain
in the French Alps after Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings plane with
150 people on board
- Airbus 320 Flight 4U 9525 was travelling between Barcelona and Duesseldorf
- The aircraft's black box voice recorder has been recovered and is being examined in Paris
- Memorial services being held as mourning for the victims begins
- Among the dead are believed to be 72 German nationals and 49 Spaniards
- Citizens
of the UK, Australia, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Denmark, the
Netherlands, the USA and Belgium also among those on board
- French
President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy are due to visit the crash site.
Live Reporting
Germany's top security official says there is no evidence at this stage
that foul play was involved in the plane crash. Interior Minister Thomas
de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin that "according to the latest
information there is no hard evidence that the crash was intentionally
brought about by third parties".
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