Passenger jet with 148 on board crashes in France

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Mar 24, 2015 at 4:58 PM Updated On : Mar 24, 2015 at 5:04 PM

Paris, March 24:

An Airbus A320 of a German low-cost airline with 148 people on board crashed on Tuesday in southern France while flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, media reports said.

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The aircraft, belonging to Germanwings, crashed around 11 a.m. in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France, Xinhua reported citing BFMTV.

The ill-fated passenger jet was carrying 142 passengers and six crew members when the tragedy occurred.

Germanwings is the low-cost subsidiary of Germany’s Lufthansa Airlines, Europe’s largest carrier. (IANS)