They came from as far away as Australia, Iran, Morocco and Venezuela, and their lives ended together in France's deadliest plane crash in decades. 
 
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 The victims included two babies, schoolchildren going home from an exchange visit, a pair of acclaimed German opera singers and a member of an Argentine rock band, three generations of the same family, a vacationing mother and son, a recently married couple, people on business trips and others going home. 
 
 Germanwings said 144 passengers and six crew members were on board its plane that crashed Tuesday in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. 
 
 Here are details of some of the victims: 
 
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 Sixteen high-school students and two teachers, Germany 
 
 The students and their teachers were returning from an exchange program in Spain. Their names have not been released. 
 
 The group was from Haltern, a rural town 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Duesseldorf, where it seemed everyone knew someone who had died. 
 
 The principal of Joseph Koenig High School, Ulrich Wessel, called the loss of his students and two teachers — one who had just married and another who was soon to be — a "tragedy that renders one speechless." 
 
 "I was asked yesterday how many students there are at the high school in Haltern, and I said 1,283 without thinking. Then had to say afterward, unfortunately, 16 fewer since yesterday," he said. "That's just terrible." 
 
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 Maria Radner, her husband and their baby, Germany 
 
 Maria Radner, a 34-year-old contralto from Duesseldorf, her husband and infant son were among the victims, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu said. 
 
 The Spanish opera house said she played the goddess Erda in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" last weekend. 
 
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 Oleg Bryjak, Germany 
 
 Bass baritone Oleg Bryjak, had performed along with Radner in the production of "Siegfried" at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, the opera house said. Bryjak, 54, had sung the part of Alberich. 
 
 Bryjak was born in Ukraine of Kazakhstani origin and had moved to Germany in 1991 where he was the soloist at the Deutsche Opera am Rhein in Duesseldorf. Its director, Christoph Meyer, said that "we have lost a great performer and a great person in Oleg Bryjak." 
 
 Christina Scheppelmann, artistic director of the Liceu, said: "The mood is ominous, like it should be in any kind of workplace facing a tragedy like this one." 
 
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 Three members of the same family, Spain 
 
 Three generations of one family — a schoolgirl, her mother and grandmother — were on the plane that crashed, according to a statement from the town hall in Sant Cugat del Valles, outside Barcelona. 
 
 The girl was a middle school student, for children aged 10-11, at Santa Isabel school in Sant Cugat, the statement said, without providing the family names. 
 
 "The students are very affected. The teachers are trying to help them any way they can," said a woman who answered the phone at the school. She refused to give her name or say more. 
 
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 Asmae Ouahhoud el Allaoui and her husband, Spain 
 
 Ouahhoud el Allaoui, 23, got married on Saturday and was moving to Duesseldorf, according to the town hall of La Llagosta in northeastern Spain, where she was from. Her husband, an unnamed Moroccan, was also on the plane. The town hall said another man born there, Francisco Javier Gonalons, 42, also died in the crash. 
 
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 Mireia Serrat, Spain 
 
 Serrat was export director for Spanish industrial manufacturer INOXPA, the Girona, Spain-based company said. 
 
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 Maria Luisa Romanos, Spain 
 
 Romanos was the wife of INOXPA owner Candi Granes, the company said. 
 
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 Manuel Rives, Spain 
 
 Rives worked for the Delphi company outside Barcelona, Spain's UGT union said. Rives was traveling with a Delphi human resources executive, the union said in a statement without giving the executive's name. Both were planning to attend a human resources conference. 
 
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 Carles Milla, Spain 
 
 Milla, a married 37-year-old, was going to a food technology fair in Cologne on behalf of Milla Masanas, a small food machinery company in the town of Cornella de Terri, north of Barcelona, the company's managing director said. 
 
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 Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio and her infant son Julian, Britain 
 
 Lopez-Belio had been attending an uncle's funeral in Jaca, a small Spanish town in the Pyrenees mountains, her husband Pawel Pracz said in a statement issued by the Foreign Office. Lopez-Belio, editor and colorist working in film post-production and who lived in Britain, was on the flight with her 7-month-old son Julian. 
 
 Unable to find a direct flight to Manchester, the chose to connect from Barcelona via Duesseldorf. "She bought the tickets at the last moment, and decided to return to Manchester quickly as she wanted to return to her daily routine as soon as possible," her husband said. 
 
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 Paul Andrew Bramley, Britain 
 
 Bramley, 28, was studying hospitality and hotel management at Ceasar Ritz College in Lucerne. He had just finished his first year in college and was about to start an internship on April 1. 
 
 He had taken a few days of vacation with friends in Barcelona and was on his way back to Britain to meet his mother, who was traveling from her home in Majorca to see him. 
 
 "Paul was a kind, caring and loving son," his mother Carol Bramley said in a statement. "He was the best son, he was my world." 
 
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 Martyn Matthews, Britain 
 
 Matthews, 50, was a senior quality manager from Wolverhampton. He is survived by his wife, Sharon, and his two children, the Foreign Office said. "We are devastated at the news of this tragic incident and request that we are allowed to deal with this terrible news without intrusion at this difficult time," the family said in a statement. 
 
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 Carol and Greig Friday, Australia 
 
 Carol, a married mother of two, celebrated her 68th birthday on the eve of the crash, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said. She was vacationing with her son Greig, who was due to turn 30 next month and was to teach English in Europe. Bishop read out a statement from the family in which they said they were "in deep disbelief and crippled with sadness." 
 
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 Yvonne and Emily Selke, United States 
 
 Yvonne Selke of Nokesville, Virginia, worked for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in Washington and performed work under contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's secretive satellite mapping office, according to a person close to the family. She was travelling with her grown daughter Emily — a 2013 graduate of Drexel University in Philadelphia who worked for Carr Workplaces of Alexandria, Va. The U.S. State Department said a third American citizen was also on board the flight and that the victim's family had been notified. It did not release the name out of respect for the family. 
 
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 Junichi Sato, Japan 
 
 Sato, one of two Japanese victims, was based in Duesseldorf where he worked for Japanese machinery maker Seika Corp.'s local branch. The company said Sato had been in Barcelona, Spain, for a business trip. 
 
 "I'm speechless. My heart is totally broken," Sato's father Yukio said in an interview with Nippon Television Network Corp. from Hokkaido, their hometown in northern Japan. "I'm so proud of my son — he was working very hard as a businessman." 
 
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 Gabriela Lujan Maumus and Sebastian Greco, Argentina 
 
 Maumus was 28 and played in a rock band called Asalto al Parque Zoologico, or Assault on the Zoo Park, according to local website infobae.com. The group released an album a few months ago and had a concert scheduled for March 29 in Buenos Aires, according to the band's Facebook page and Twitter account. Greco was a financial analyst, according to his LinkedIn profile. The couple was in Europe on vacation. 
 
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 Juan Armando Pomo, Argentina 
 
 Pomo, 51, was a businessman who for more than 20 years had lived in Asuncion, Paraguay. He was married with two teenage children, according to Infobae. 
 
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 Eyal Baum, Israel 
 
 Baum, 39, lived in Barcelona with his wife, Baum's sister Liat told Army Radio. "He was amazing, with a winning smile. Whoever met him fell in love with him from the first moment," she said, in tears. "The thought of what he went through in those moments is very difficult." 
 
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 Luis Eduardo Medrano, Colombia 
 
 Medrano, a 36-year-old architect, had been vacationing in Europe. His family expected him to return to his native city of Popayan after working several years for an engineering firm in Equatorial Guinea. Medrano's father told local newspaper El Tiempo that shortly before takeoff he received a brief text message from his son: "Flying to Germany." 
 
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 Maria del Pilar Tejada, Colombia 
 
 Tejada, 33, was an economist doing doctoral work at Bonn University, according to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. 
 
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 Erbol Imankulov, Kazakhstan 
 
 Imankulov was director of a silicon plant in the eastern Kazakh city of Karaganda, according to state news agency Kazinform. 
 
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 Milad Hojatoleslami and Hossein Javadi, Iran 
 
 Hojatoleslami worked for the semi-official Tasnim news agency and Javadi was a journalist at the Vatan-e-Emrouz daily, Iran's official IRNA news agency said, quoting the foreign ministry. The reporters were in Barcelona to cover last Sunday's soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid and planned to cover Iran's friendly games against Chile and Sweden in Austria and Stockholm, respectively, according to IRNA. 
 
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 Daniela Ayon Razo, Mexico 
 
 Ayon Razo, 36, was a Yoga teacher, her friend and fellow Yoga teacher Maria Andrea Meza said. 
 
 Daniela loved to travel the world giving yoga classes. "In the end, she died doing what she loved, she loved to travel," Meza said. 
 
 "Daniela was a person who was super alive, full of happiness and dreams," said Meza. "She took advantage of every moment of life to the fullest." 
 
 "She left a lasting mark on people's lives," she said, adding she brought what she learned in India and other places back to Mexico. "Daniela was magic, she changed your way of seeing things, your way of thinking." ||||| 1:03 a.m. (0003 GMT, 20:03 EDT) 
 
 Germanwings has had to cancel seven flights out of Dusseldorf because a number of crew members felt they were unfit to fly following news of the accident. 
 
 Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said Tuesday evening that he understood the crew members' sentiments. 
 
 "One must not forget: many of our Germanwings crews have known crew members who were onboard the crashed plane," Spohr said. 
 
 "It is now more important to ensure psychological assistance if needed. And we will get back to a full flight operation as soon as possible then. But for me, this is rather secondary now," he added. 
 
 11:10 p.m. (2210 GMT,6:10 p.m. EDT) 
 
 Hundreds of students, parents and townspeople from a small Spanish town have gathered at a weekly mass to mourn a group of German exchange students who died in the plane crash over the French Alps after visiting the town. 
 
 The mass at a local church turned into an unofficial outpouring of grief for the students and their two teachers who were among the 150 people who died in the crash Tuesday. 
 
 Andrea Perez Martinez, 20, who had participated in the exchange with the German school in Haltern four years ago came to mourn the loss of one of the two teachers, whom she identified as Claudia. 
 
 "This really hurts because the teacher, one of the two that died, was with us on the trips we took and everything when we went there," Perez Martinez said. 
 
 The Spanish school that hosted the German students, Institut Giola, said in a statement: "We extend our condolences to the victims of this tragic accident as well as the educational community of the Joseph-Konig-Gymnasium" in Germany. 
 
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 10:50 p.m. (2150 GMT, 5:50 p.m. EDT) 
 
 Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr says initial information about the cause of the plane crash over the French Alps, which killed all 150 people onboard, should be available "relatively quickly." 
 
 Spohr expressed satisfaction that authorities had found the first black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf and said he would not speculate on the cause of the crash until its data had been analyzed. 
 
 Spohr told Germany's ARD television the firm and investigators would "try to find out and then understand how this blackest day of our company's 60-year history could happen." 
 
 Germanwings is a low-cost carrier owned by Lufthansa. 
 
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 9:45 p.m. (2045 GMT, 4:45 p.m. EDT) 
 
 The mayor of the small Spanish town of Jaca in the Pyrenees mountains says that a woman originally from the town died in the crash along with her baby boy. 
 
 Jaca Mayor Victor Barrio said Marina Bandres had been attending a funeral in Jaca for a relative and was taken to the Barcelona airport by her father. 
 
 Bandres lived in Britain. Barrio did not know if her husband was on the flight with her and the boy, Julian, who was seven or eight months old. 
 
 The second baby on the flight that crashed on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf was the child of German opera singer Maria Radner and her husband, also on the flight. 
 
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 9:35 p.m. (2035 GMT, 4:35 p.m. EDT) 
 
 A rescue official says about 10 police will spend the night at the site of a Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps to guard it. 
 
 Lt. Col. Jean-Marc Meninchini of the regional police rescue service said search operations will resume at daybreak. 
 
 He said the recovery operation is expected to last a week. 
 
 Officials have said all 150 onboard the plane were likely killed when it crashed on its way from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
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 9:00 p.m. (2000 GMT, 4:00 p.m. EDT) 
 
 French authorities have called off the search of the crash site in the French Alps of a Germanwings airplane with 150 people aboard, after night fell on the hard-to-reach area. 
 
 Lt. Col. Simon-Pierre Delannoy of the regional police rescue service said on BFM television that the conditions for the search had become too difficult. 
 
 Helicopters stopped flying over the area at nightfall. 
 
 The complex search operation was expected to resume Wednesday morning. 
 
 The Airbus A320 was traveling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf when it crashed Tuesday on a mountainside near Meolans-Revels and the popular Pra Loup ski resort. 
 
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 8:20 p.m. (1920 GMT, 3:20 p.m. EDT) 
 
 A Spanish opera house says a second singer, German contralto Maria Radner along with her husband and baby, were among the 150 victims of the plane crash in the French Alps. 
 
 Earlier Tuesday, an opera house in Duesseldorf said bass baritone Oleg Bryjak was on the plane which crashed on its way from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
 Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu said Radner, like Bryjak, had performed in its production of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried." 
 
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 7:55 p.m. (1855 GMT, 2:55 p.m. EDT) 
 
 German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says the crash site is "a picture of horror." 
 
 After being flown over the crash scene and briefed by French authorities, he said: "The grief of the families and friends is immeasurable. We must now stand together. We are united in our great grief." 
 
 He was also quoted by his ministry as thanking the French for their "exemplary" help. 
 
 The Germanwings flight crashed in France on its way from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
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 7:35 p.m. (1835 GMT, 2:35 p.m. EDT) 
 
 Germany's soccer federation says the national team, the World Cup holder, will play with black armbands when it takes on Australia in a friendly Wednesday. 
 
 It said there will be a minute of silence before kick-off for the 150 people who died when a Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. 
 
 Federation President Wolfgang Niersbach said "this overshadows everything." 
 
 "We owe it the victims and their families to commiserate as a soccer family." 
 
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 7:05 p.m. (1805 GMT, 2:05 p.m EDT) 
 
 A Lufthansa vice president says the company is treating the crash of a Germanwings jet in France that carried 150 people as an accident for "the time being." 
 
 Heike Birlenbach told reporters in Barcelona that for now "we say it is an accident. There is nothing more we can say right now." 
 
 She also said that the plane, bound for Duesseldorf in Germany, took off from Barcelona 30 minutes late Tuesday but did not know what caused the delay. 
 
 The Airbus A320 was inspected by Lufthansa's technical team on Monday. 
 
 Germanwings is a low-cost carrier owned by Lufthansa. 
 
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 6:50 p.m. (1750 GMT, 1:50 p.m EDT) 
 
 An opera house in Duesseldorf says bass baritone Oleg Bryjak was among the 150 people onboard the plane that crashed in the French Alps. 
 
 Officials believe all onboard were likely killed when the plane crashed on its way from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
 The Deutsche Oper am Rhein said Bryjak was on his way back from Barcelona, where he had sung Alberich in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. 
 
 Director Christoph Meyer said that "we have lost a great performer and a great person in Oleg Bryjak. We are stunned." 
 
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 6:30 p.m. (1730 GMT, 1:30 p.m EDT) 
 
 A French Interior Ministry official says the black box has been recovered from the site in the French Alps where a plane carrying 150 people crashed. 
 
 The official, who was not authorized to speak about the crash publicly, confirmed to The Associated Press that the black box was in hand. 
 
 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve earlier Tuesday said the black box had been located and would be handed to investigators in coming hours. 
 
 Officials believe all onboard were likely killed when the plane crashed on its way from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
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 5:50 p.m. (1650 GMT, 12:50 p.m. EDT) 
 
 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says a black box has been located at the site in the French Alps where a plane crashed while traveling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. 
 
 Cazeneuve, speaking from the Alps region, said the black box had been located and would ultimately help in the investigation into the cause of the crash Tuesday. 
 
 It wasn't immediately clear if the box had been recovered. 
 
 Officials believe all 150 people onboard the plane were likely killed when it crashed. 
 
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 5:25 p.m. (1625 GMT, 12:25 p.m. EDT) 
 
 A spokesman for the French Civil Aviation authority says the plane that crashed in the French Alps with 150 people on board never sent out a distress signal. 
 
 Eric Heraud said the plane lost radio contact at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, but "never declared a distress alert itself." 
 
 He said it was the combination of loss of radio contract with control and the plane's descent which prompted the control service to declare a distress. 
 
 Heraud said six investigators from the Bureau of Accident Investigations, or BEA, were en route from Paris and would be at the crash site by evening. One investigator from the region was already present, he said. 
 
 Officials believe all onboard were likely killed when the plane crashed on its way from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
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 5:15 p.m. (1615 GMT, 12:15 p.m. EDT) 
 
 The German North Rhine-Westphalia state Education Ministry says a group of 16 tenth-graders and their two teachers were on board the Germanwings plane that crashed in France. 
 
 Ministry spokeswoman Barbara Loecherbach told The Associated Press on Tuesday they had confirmed the school group from a high school in the city of Haltern, northeast of Duesseldorf, were on board the plane. 
 
 Haltern Mayor Bodo Klimpel told reporters at a press conference "this is, of course, the worst thing you could imagine." 
 
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 4:55 p.m. (1555 GMT, 11:55 a.m. EDT) 
 
 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says 10 helicopters and a military plane have been mobilized to the site in the French Alps where a Germanwings plane crashed en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. 
 
 At a news conference at Seyne les Alpes, Cazeneuve left open the possibility that some of the 150 people onboard could have survived. 
 
 He said "the violence of the shock leaves little hope," but refused to be categorical. 
 
 A photo of the crash scene from La Provence newspaper showed scattered flecks across a mountain and several larger pieces which appear to be part of the body of the plane, with five windows seen on one and four on another. 
 
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 4:40 p.m. (1540 GMT, 11:40 a.m. EDT) 
 
 A German official says a high school group returning from an exchange in Spain was on board the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people onboard. 
 
 The school they had visited, about 45 minutes from Barcelona, told The Associated Press that 16 students from the town of Haltern in Germany had been on a weeklong exchange that ended Tuesday. 
 
 North Rhine-Westphalia state Education Minister Sylvia Loerhmann said Tuesday that "we know that the school group boarded the plane," the dpa news agency reported. 
 
 Local police said they are still waiting on official confirmation the students had been killed, but have already sent staff to the school to assist students and teachers. The school refused to comment. 
 
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 4:20 p.m. (1520 GMT, 11:20 a.m. EDT) 
 
 A spokeswoman for the U.S. National Security Council says there is no indication the plane crash in the French Alps was the result of terrorism. 
 
 Bernadette Meehan said in a statement Tuesday "there is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time." 
 
 The White House says American officials have been in touch with French, German and Spanish officials to offer assistance. 
 
 Officials say all 150 people onboard were likely killed when the plane crashed in the French Alps Tuesday as it was flying from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
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 4:05 p.m. (1505 GMT, 11:05 a.m. EDT) 
 
 A local lawmaker says the debris from the plane crash in the French Alps that killed all 150 people on board is spread over 100-200 meters (110-220 yards). 
 
 Gilbert Sauvan, president of the general council of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, told the AP that "everything is pulverized." 
 
 He said the largest pieces of debris are the size of a small car. 
 
 Sauvan said no one can access the site from the ground, but that helicopters are circling the area to get information and 500 firefighters and gendarmes are in the area. 
 
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 3:50 p.m. (1450 GMT, 10:50 a.m. EDT) 
 
 French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says a helicopter has managed to land near where a passenger plane carrying 150 people crashed in the Alps, and has found there were no survivors. 
 
 The weather in the area deteriorated Tuesday afternoon, with a chilly rain falling. 
 
 Gilbert Sauvan, of the local council, told Les Echos newspaper, "The plane is disintegrated." 
 
 "The largest debris is the size of a car," he added. 
 
 The Germanwings Airbus 320 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Germany, came down in the mountains on Tuesday morning after an eight-minute descent from its cruising height. Officials said they are still establishing whether there was a distress call. 
 
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 3:20 p.m. (1420 GMT, 10:20 a.m. EDT) 
 
 The boss of airline Germanwings says the plane went into a long descent before it crashed into the French Alps, likely killing all 150 people on board. 
 
 Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann said the plane began descending again shortly after it reached its cruising height following takeoff from Barcelona Airport. The descent lasted eight minutes, he told reporters in Cologne. Radar and air traffic control contact broke off at 10:53 a.m. 
 
 He said the pilot had more than 10 years' experience working for Germanwings and its parent airline Lufthansa. Airbus said the A320 was delivered to Lufthansa in 1991. 
 
 Germanwings said the passenger manifest included two babies. Officials believe there were 67 German nationals on board. 
 
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 3:05 p.m. (1405 GMT, 10:05 a.m. EDT) 
 
 Officials at two airports are rushing to provide help and information to relatives and friends of the passengers aboard the crashed Germanwings flight 9525. 
 
 In Barcelona, from where the plane took off Tuesday morning, police escorted people, some of them crying, through a terminal and took them to a secure part of the airport. They did not speak to the media, and one woman held a jacket over the head of a sobbing woman. 
 
 In Duesseldorf, the destination airport, family members arriving at the airport were taken from the main terminal to a nearby building. Airport employees partly covered the building with sheets to keep the relatives out of the eye of the public. 
 
 A total of 150 people were on board the plane when it crashed in the French Alps. No survivors are expected to be found. 
 
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 2:50 p.m. (1350 GMT, 9:50 a.m. EDT) 
 
 German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will head to the remote mountain in the French Alps where a Germanwings passenger plane crashed with 150 people aboard. 
 
 She says her thoughts are "with those people who so suddenly lost their lives, among them many compatriots." 
 
 Merkel says she will travel to the region on Wednesday, a day after her foreign and transport ministers were heading to the crash site. 
 
 She is urging people not to speculate on the cause of the crash until an investigation can be conducted. 
 
 No survivors are expected in the crash of the plane, which was traveling Tuesday morning from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
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 2:05 p.m. (1305 GMT, 9:05 a.m. EDT) 
 
 The owner of a French Alpine camping ground says he heard a series of loud noises in the air before a Germanwings passenger plane carrying 150 people crashed to the ground. 
 
 Pierre Polizzi told The Associated Press the noise began at 11:30 a.m. 
 
 "There are often fighter jets flying over, so I thought it sounded just like that. I looked outside but I couldn't see any fighter planes." 
 
 "The noise I heard was long - like 8 seconds - as if the plane was going more slowly than a military plane speed. There was another long noise about 30 seconds later." 
 
 No survivors are expected in the crash of the plane that was traveling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Germany. 
 
 Polizzi said it would be difficult to get to the site of the crash. "The mountain is snowy and very hostile." 
 
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 1:45 p.m. . (1245 GMT, 8:45 EDT) 
 
 Spanish King Felipe has canceled his state visit to France following the crash of a plane in the southern French Alps. 
 
 The plane was flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany, and Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria told reporters in Seville that there were 45 people aboard the plane with Spanish last names but that authorities have not confirmed how many of them were Spanish. 
 
 Felipe met with French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday morning before ending his visit. 
 
 Airline Germanwings says there were 150 people on board the Airbus 320. Hollande has said no survivors are expected to be found. 
 
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 1:40 p.m. (1240 GMT, 8:40 a.m. EDT) 
 
 Airline Germanwings says there were 144 passengers and six crew aboard a plane that crashed in the French Alps. 
 
 Manager Oliver Wagner did not say whether there were any survivors and added it was not currently possible to give more information on how the crash occurred. "I promise that we will do everything to clear up the events thoroughly," he said. "We are endlessly sorry for what has happened." 
 
 Other officials have given slightly differing figures for the number on board. 
 
 The Airbus 320 crashed Tuesday morning during a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Germany. French President Francois Hollande has said no survivors are expected. 
 
 The Germanwings logo, normally maroon and yellow, was blacked out on its Twitter feed. 
 
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 1:25 p.m. (1225 GMT, 8:25 a.m. EDT) 
 
 The Airbus 320 plane that went down in the French Alps is a workhorse of modern aviation. Similar to the Boeing 737, the single-aisle, twin-engine jet is used to connect cities that are between one and five hours apart. Worldwide, 3,606 A320s are in operation, according to Airbus, which also makes the smaller but near-identical A318 and A319 and the stretched A321. An additional 2,486 of those jets are flying. 
 
 The Germanwings A320 crashed Tuesday crashed in the south of the Alps while flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany. No survivors are expected. 
 
 The A320 family has a good safety record, with just 0.14 fatal accidents per million takeoffs, according to a Boeing safety analysis. 
 
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 1:10 p.m. (1210 GMT, 8:10 a.m. EDT) 
 
 The CEO of Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, says he doesn't yet have any information about what happened to its flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf that French officials say has crashed in the Alps. 
 
 "My deepest sympathy is with all the relatives and friends of our passengers and crew on 4U 9525," Carsten Spohr was cited in a tweet by Lufthansa as saying. "If our fears are confirmed, this is a dark day for Lufthansa. We hope to find survivors." 
 
 Antonio San Jose, spokesman for Spanish airport authority AENA, told the Onda Cero radio station that authorities do not yet know how many Spaniards were on the jet but that the authority's best information is that 147 people were aboard the plane. 
 
 "It would be a miracle if there were survivors but hopefully there will be. We do not know the causes, simply that it lost contact," San Jose said. 
 
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 1 p.m. (1200 GMT, 8 a.m. EDT) 
 
 French President Francois Hollande has spoken briefly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express solidarity following the crash of a Germanwings plane in southern France. 
 
 The German ambassador is leaving imminently with Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve for the area of the crash. 
 
 The Airbus A320 crashed in the south of the Alps while flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany. Holland says no survivors are expected. 
 
 Spanish King Felipe and his wife are in France on a previously scheduled visit and are currently meeting Hollande. 
 
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 12:40 p.m. (1140 GMT, 7:40 a.m. EDT) 
 
 French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says debris from the crash of an Airbus A320 has been located and the plane crashed at 2,000 meters altitude in the Alps. 
 
 Brandet told BFM television that he expected "an extremely long and extremely difficult" search and rescue operation because of the area's remoteness. 
 
 The airplane sent out a distress signal at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Brandet said. 
 
 He said the passenger manifest is being verified. 
 
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 12:30 p.m. (1130 GMT, 7:30 a.m. EDT) 
 
 French President Francois Hollande says no survivors are likely in the Alpine crash of a passenger jet carrying 148 people. 
 
 The Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed Tuesday in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, French officials said. Eric Ciotti, the head of the regional council, said search-and-rescue teams were headed to the crash site at Meolans-Revels. 
 
 In a live briefing Tuesday, Hollande said the area of the crash was remote and it was not clear whether anyone on the ground had been hurt. Hollande said it was probable that a number of the victims are German. 
 
 "It's a tragedy on our soil," he said, adding he would be speaking shortly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 
 
 The French newspaper La Provence, citing aviation officials, said the Airbus plane carried at least 142 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants.
– As authorities try to figure out why a Germanwings plane went down in the French Alps—there was no distress call before the pilot's eight-minute descent, reports the AP—details are emerging about some of the 150 people aboard who are now presumed dead. That includes 16 kids, all about age 15, who were returning to Germany from a weeklong exchange program in Spain, reports Reuters. They and their two teachers were from the small community of Haltern am See in western Germany, where, as the New York Times notes, many people either knew the victims or were related to them. “This is the darkest day in the history of our city," says Mayor Bodo Klimpel, who was fighting back tears at a news conference. "A feeling of shock can be felt everywhere. It is about the worst thing imaginable." The mayor of Llinars del Valles, where the teens stayed in Spain, says his "whole village is distraught" as well. "The families knew each other," he says. "The parents had been to see them off at 6 this morning." Also on board were two opera singers, Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak, who were returning from a performance together. Radner was with her husband and baby, and another baby was reportedly killed in the crash.