Germanwings Airbus A320 crashes in French Alps, all 150 on board killed

#germanwings #4U9525 #lufthansa #AirbusA320 #mayday The crash of an Airbus A320 Flight 4U9525 operated by the budget carrier of Germany's Lufthansa, Germanwings, has crashed in a remote area of the French Alps and all 150 on board including passengers and crew. This is believed to be the worst aviation disaster on French soil in decades.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 25 March 2015.

The aircraft was carrying 144 passengers, most of them were Spanish and German -- including two babies -- and six crew. They were on their way from Barcelona to the western German city of Duesseldorf when it crashed. It is understood from German authorities that there were 16 German teenagers on a school trip on the doomed plane.
There was no May Day message from the aircraft and the authorities have managed to recover a black box from the crash site. Rescue efforts are seriously hampered due to the rough mountainous terrain.
As per the budget airline Germanwings, the Airbus had plunged for eight minutes but French aviation officials informed that there was no distress call made from the aircraft before it crashed near the ski resort of Barcelonnette.
Weather has been ruled out as a probable reason for the crash because the weather conditions were “calm" at the time.
German flag carrier Lufthansa has indicated that it was working on the assumption the crash of the 24-year-old Airbus A320 aircraft was an "accident".

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Filling up seats in flights during lean seasons is a problem that is faced by all airlines and AirAsia India has come up with a plan that could revolutionize air travel in India with their one-way fares as low as Rs 699.
The all-inclusive one way fare starts from as low as Rs 699 for flights from Bengaluru to Chennai, Kochi, Goa, Jaipur and Chandigarh and vice versa.
Moreover, the Malaysian parent company is also offering fares of Rs 2,599 on flights from Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Tiruchirappalli and Hyderabad to Kuala Lumpur – these flights would be operated by AirAsia Berhad and the Chennai to Bangkok would be by Thai AirAsia.
As per the press release the booking of tickets can be done on AirAsia's website till November 16, for travel during the period from June 10 next year to January 17, 2016.
This reduction in fares is a part of promotional exercise of the Malaysian parent company AirAsia – it is a 'Big Sale' with three million promotional seats on offer through its network from Kuala Lumpur, with a starting fare of Rs 2,599 for international flights operated by AirAsia Berhad and Thai AirAsia.
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