Lufthansa says 320 of the reasons for Airbus will soon be found, the height of only one minute began to fall

Source: Internet
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Keywords Airbus 320
Tags aircraft airline company cost expressed find find out finding

According to the "Central Society" report, German Lufthansa (Lufthans) CEO Sputnik said that its Low-cost airline subsidiary of the German wing plane crashed in southern France today Alps, the initial information on the cause of the accident should be "very soon" can be achieved.

Sputnik (Carsten Spohr) expressed satisfaction with the authorities ' finding a black box at the scene of the crash. He said Lufthansa and investigators "will try to find out why, and then understand how our company's darkest day of the last 60 years has happened".

Berenbach, vice president of sales and services at Lufthansa Europe, said earlier that the crash was temporarily in the direction of the accident and that any other claim was purely speculative.

"At the moment, we have an accident," Berenbach, a press conference at Barcelonnapurat Airport (El Prat), which took off from the plane. Now, we can't say much more. Any other argument is purely speculative. ”

Earlier, the German wing Company (Germanwings) said the aircraft arrived at cruising altitude of only 1 minutes began to crash, and lasted 8 minutes.

Thomas Winkelmann, general manager of Germany's wing, said at a press conference: "The plane lost contact with French radar and French Winkman at 10:53 A.M., at a height of about 6000 feet." The airliner then crashed. ”

This means that the passenger plane in a few minutes from about 38000 feet height of the sharp drop of more than 30,000 feet. The French civil Aviation authority said it had not sent out a distress signal during the rapid descent of the crashed airliner before the crash.

A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) said: "The aircraft itself did not send a distress signal, but due to the loss of radio links and the rapid descent of aircraft, the air traffic control personnel started the distress phase." ”

Winkman said the plane had been routinely serviced yesterday. The captain has more than 10 flight experience and has about 6,000 hours to fly.

The flight was flown from Barcelona, Spain to Dusseldorf, Germany.

The German wing said there were 144 passengers and 6 crew members on board, with 67 Germans believed to be among the passengers, including 16 middle school students.

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