A plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings has crashed in the Southern French Alps with 150 people on board.
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Germanwings has crashed in the Southern French Alps with 150 people on board.
French President Francoise Hollande has told reporters that "the conditions of the accident suggest there would be no survivors."
The Airbus 320 plane, travelling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, had 144 passengers and six crew members on board.
The aircraft dropped off the radar at around 11 am local time, news reports said.
President Hollande said the accident occurred in a particularly difficult area of access.
The plane belonged to Germanwings, a popular low-cost German carrier owned by Lufthansa.
Debris from the crashed airliner has been found, French interior ministry officials told news agency AFP. The pilot had sent a Mayday call to Air Traffic Controllers, said officials.
A spokesman for the DGAC aviation authority said the airplane crashed near the town of Barcelonnette about 100 km (65 miles) north of the French Riviera city of Nice.
According to the website FlightRadar24, Germanwings A320 D-AIPX was one of the oldest aircraft operated by the airline and had been with it since 1991.
FlightRadar24, which tracks aircraft flight paths, said the flight had dropped 32,000 feet in the 9 minutes before it disappeared.
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