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Overview
Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled passenger flight which departed from Barcelona, Spain to Düsseldorf, Germany on March 24th, 2015, before crashing in the French Alps, killing all 144 passengers and six crew members. The incident gained a huge following for it’s similarities with the memorable plane scene from The Dark Knight Rises.
Background
On March 24th, 2014, 10:01 a.m. local time, Germanwings Flight 9525 departed Barcelona-El Prat Airport en route to Düsseldorf, Germany, carrying 144 passengers of 18 nationalities and 6 Germanflight crew members. At around 10:40 a.m., less than an hour into the flight, air traffic controllers in France reported that they lost contact with the plane after the transponder signal went offline over the French Alps.[1]
Search Interest
External References
[1]FlightRadar24 – Full flight information and flight history for Germanwings aircraft D-AIPX
[2]Twitter – Tweet results for #GermanWingsCrash
[3]Topsy – Tweets Per Day – #GermanWingsCrash
[4]Archieve.today – Germanwings plane 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps – No Survivors
[6]/bane/ – Germanwings plane 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps – No Survivors Thread 2
[7]/r/worldnews – Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot ‘started descent’