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Plane Crash Recovery Operation Resumes

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08:09 25 Mar 2015


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Recovery teams are resuming their operations in the French Alps as investigators try to work out what caused the Germanwings plane to crash, killing all 150 people on board.

Recovery teams have been flown in by helicopter and one of the black box flight recorders has been found.

The debris appeared to have been spread over a wide area.

The Airbus A320 plane was en route from Barcelona in Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany, when it came down on Tuesday morning less than an hour into its flight. 

A total of 144 passengers, including two babies, as well as two pilots and four cabin crew were on board the 24-year-old jet, operated by Lufthansa's budget airline.

It then plummeted from 38,000ft to 6,800ft in eight minutes before crashing.

The company said it was working on the assumption that the crash was an accident and any other theory was "speculation".


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