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Pictures: Germanwings crashes in French Alps with 150 dead, black box found

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A German jetliner en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, plunged from the sky on Tuesday and slammed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

A German jetliner en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, plunged from the sky on Tuesday and slammed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

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Helicopters and rescue personnel swarmed into the remote, rugged area in southeastern France after the crash but found no signs of life. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said none of the 144 passengers and six crew members survived.

Debris from an Airbus A320 is seen in the mountains, near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, March 24, 2015. The Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed into a mountainside in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren. REUTERS via Reuters TV/Pool
Debris from an Airbus A320 is seen in the mountains, near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, March 24, 2015. The Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline crashed into a mountainside in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren. REUTERS via Reuters TV/Pool
A rescue helicopter from the French Securite Civile flies over the French Alps during a rescue operation after the crash of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
A rescue helicopter from the French Securite Civile flies over the French Alps during a rescue operation after the crash of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash react at Barcelona's El Prat airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino
Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash react at Barcelona’s El Prat airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino
Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash react at Barcelona's El Prat airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash react at Barcelona’s El Prat airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Students embrace in front of lit candles outside the Josef-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in Haltern am See, Germany, March, 24, 2015. Students and teachers at a small-town German high school broke out in tears when they realised that 16 classmates and two teachers were on board an ill-fated Germanwings airplane that crashed in France on Tuesday on a flight home to Duesseldorf. REUTERS/Kirsten Neumann
Students embrace in front of lit candles outside the Josef-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in Haltern am See, Germany, March, 24, 2015. Students and teachers at a small-town German high school broke out in tears when they realised that 16 classmates and two teachers were on board an ill-fated Germanwings airplane that crashed in France on Tuesday on a flight home to Duesseldorf. REUTERS/Kirsten Neumann
Germanwings employees place lit candles outside the company headquarters in Cologne Bonn airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Germanwings employees place lit candles outside the company headquarters in Cologne Bonn airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa chief executive, reacts as he makes a statement at the Frankfurt airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa chief executive, reacts as he makes a statement at the Frankfurt airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
French Police and Gendarmerie Alpine rescue units gather on a field as they prepare to reach the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, in the French Alps, March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
French Police and Gendarmerie Alpine rescue units gather on a field as they prepare to reach the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, in the French Alps, March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash are escorted by local police officers as they arrive at Barcelona's El Prat airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Family members of passengers feared killed in Germanwings plane crash are escorted by local police officers as they arrive at Barcelona’s El Prat airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Albert Gea
French President Francois Hollande, Spain's King Felipe VI and his wife Queen Letizia deliver a speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris, March 24, 2015.  The three-day state visit of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain has been suspended following the crash. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
French President Francois Hollande, Spain’s King Felipe VI and his wife Queen Letizia deliver a speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris, March 24, 2015. The three-day state visit of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain has been suspended following the crash. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer