| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | March 24, 2015 |
| Time: | 1053 |
| Location: | Near Digne-Les-Bains, France |
| Operator: | Germanwings |
| Flight #: | 9525 |
| Route: | Barcelona, Spain - Dusseldorf, Germany |
| AC Type: | Airbus A320-211 |
| Registration: | D-AIPX |
| cn / ln: | 147 |
| Aboard: | 150 (passengers:144 crew:6) |
| Fatalities: | 150 (passengers:144 crew:6) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The jetliner crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern France. The plane was obliterated with no wreckage larger than a small car. According to a flight tracker, the plane fell from 38,000 ft. to 11,400 ft. in eight minutes. The aircraft impacted the ground at a high rate of speed. The copilot locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately put the plane into a controlled descent until it impacted the ground. |
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