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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 03:42 UTC

Tag: Germanwings tragedy

  • Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

    Germany and Spain mourn the loss 150 people in air crash in the French Alps

    Germanwings Flight 9525, operated by the low-cost subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, plunged into the mountainside following a rapid descent from cruising altitude

    Hundreds turned out in the western German town of Haltern am See to mourn 16 students and two teachers lost in Tuesday’s Germanwings crash in the French Alps. The Airbus A320 crashed en route to Dusseldorf from Barcelona, likely killing all 150 on board, in what would be the worst air accident on French soil in three decades. Spain declared three days of national mourning.

  • Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 07:53 UTC

    An air crash in 1953 was only a kilometer away from Germanwings tragedy

    ”A Lockheed L-749A Constellation, F-BAZZ, was destroyed when it crashed into the side of Mont Le Cimet (3020 m), 80 km northwest of Nice, France”

    Germanwings tragedy in which 150 people were killed happened strikingly close to another French Alps air disaster, more than half a century ago. The air crash in 1953 unfolded only one kilometer away in the rocky summits of the mountain range of very difficult access.