Passenger Plane gone down in French Alps
 

Germanwings A320 aircraft flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf goes down in southern French Alps with 148 on board

A passenger plane for the airline Germanwings flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in southern France, officials have confirmed.

The Airbus A320 making the flight for Lufthansa’s lowcost arm, Germanwings, crashed near the small mountain village of Barcelonette in the southern Alps. It had made a distress call at 10.47am then disappeared off the radar at around 11.20am, Le Figaro reported.

The French TV station iTele said there had been at least 142 passengers and six crew-members on board.

Airbus said it is aware of the reports of a crash but could not confirm.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...es-french-alps

This is happening alot lately :/

No its rare


This one is Tragic as its a Hi Tech plane
and all the tragic deaths

It's certainly happening more often

:o:dog:

Terrible tragedy. I pray there's some survivors and hope that the cause is not sinister.

Christ how awful, looks like there won't be any survivors

I agree Niamh - It does seem to be anyway.

I know, it's a shame that that was the first thought that went through my head aswell

Oh no! :(

We have a house not far from here and I've climbed these mountains many times. At this time of year the tops of these mountains are an impossibly formidable terrain.

It sounds like the loss of altitude was catastrophic.

They hit a mountain at 460 mph Kirk, not much chance of any survivors I'm afraid....

Terribly sad.

Out of the 85 million flights a year what do you consider a lot?
Put me on a plane any day rather than in a car.
Plane deaths are far more newsworthy than car deaths just because they are far far far far more rare so you hear about them on the news every time it happens.

ah well yeah obviously, I just seem to be hearing more about plane crashes lately but maybe I'm wrong :shrug:

For some odd reason these things do seem to come in cycles. Plane crashes do appear to happen in bunches, then its quiet for a while, then another bunch and so it goes on. No idea why.

Yes you are wrong

If there was a news alert every time a total of 150 in the world had died in car crashes it would be more than endless! It wouldnt be possible to keep up.
But if its a plane occasionally its a drama.

somehow i would rather die in a car than in a plane

My mum always says these things happen in 3's.... :(

well 1.2 million people a year die in car crashes so the 3 will be pretty much done by now. (that was figures from 5 years ago so it will be more now)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ted_death_rate

so where are you starting from?

OMG Two babies were on board. :sad::bawling:

Yeah well you're green

yes yes yes I'm well aware there are much much much much much more car crashes :laugh: