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PARIS: An Airbus A320 plane crashed on Tuesday in the southern French Alps, police officers said. This after the pilot of the Germanwings flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf sent out a distress one minute before crashing into a 9,000ft mountain in the French Alps today.
About 142 passengers and6gang aboard the German Airbus A320 are believed to have died in the crash about 100 miles north of Nice.
Flight 4U 9525 vanished from radar screens at about 10.47 am , 46 minutes after take-off from Barcelona. French officials said that debris had been found on the 2,96Km-high Estrop massif near the small town of Barcelonnette in the Alpes-de-Hautes-Provence.
No survivors are expected in the plane crash, French President Hollande said.
The French interior ministry said some debris has been found, AFP reported.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he understood between 142 and 150 people were on board and feared dead."The cause is at present unknown," he told reporters.
A spokesman for the DGAC aviation authority said the airplane crashed near the town of Barcelonnette about 100 kmnorth of the French Riviera city of Nice.
Lufthansa ' s Germanwings unit said it was as yet unable to verify reports of the crash.
The crashed A320 is 24 years old and has been with the parent Lufthansa group since 1991, according to online database air fleets.