An Airbus A320 crashed at the Digne Region, south of France that is an hour north of Marseille.
In an official announcement, French President Francois Hollande said that no survivors are likely and that most passengers aboard the place were German.
The plane that belongs to the fleet of low-budget carrier German Wings, an affiliate of Lufthansa, was carrying 142 passengers and eight crewmembers.
Airbus A320 was flying was flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, Germany when it crashed at 9.49 a.m. local time.
It had been flying at 6,800 feet over the French Alps when the accident happened.
The crashed plane was 24 years old and it has been a part of Lufthansa fleet since 1991, according to online database airfleets.net.
Germanwings and Lufthansa were not immediately available for a comment. Airbus had no immediate comment.
According to newspaper El Mundo one of the two black boxes of the aircraft has been found.
German Ministry of Education confirms group of German students in the fatal aircraft.
The tragic crash of Airbus A320 in mountainous terrain in southeastern France cost the lives of 150 people including 16 students and two infants.
Germans, Spaniards, probably Turks, and at least one Belgian national are believed to be among the dead.
Germanwings’ first tweet when the flight’s signal was lost from Flightradar
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