Germanwings Airbus 320: what you need to know

March 30, 2015 06:10 pm | Updated November 29, 2016 08:22 pm IST

A passenger plane carrying 150 people crashed in remote area of French alps.

A look at what happened with Lufthansa's budget carrier Germanwings Airbus 320 - Flight 4U 9525:

The passenger manifest included two babies. France’s Interior Ministry says debris located in Alpine jet crash at 2,000m altitude. The airplane sent out a distress signal at 10-45 a.m. GMT. The plane was cruising at 38,000 ft. when it dropped to 6,800 ft. where the radar signal was lost. An analysis of transponder data by Flightradar24, a flight tracking service, showed that the autopilot was re-set to take the plane from 38,000 to 100 feet. Lufthansa offered financial assistance to the relatives of each victim. Each of them would get up to €50,000. A French prosecutor said the co-pilot intentionally crashed. Families ask why co-pilot deliberately crashed the A320 jet. Lufthansa declines comment on co-pilot’s mental state. Forensic teams isolate 78 DNA strands from recovered body parts. The second 'black box' data recorder was found on April 02, 2015. German state prosecutors said that the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had "looked for information on ways to commit suicide," one day before the crash.

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