About Flight 9525..
Germanwings Flight 9525[1] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa. On 24 March 2015, the aircraft, an Airbus A320-211, crashed 100 km (62 mi; 54 nmi) north-west of Nice in the French Alps. All 144 passengers and all six crew members were killed.[2][3] It was the only fatal crash involving a Germanwings aircraft during the company's 18 years in operation.

Germanwings Flight 9525
A jet aircraft taking off, nose up, viewed from the side, the livery spelling out "Germanwings"
D-AIPX, the aircraft involved, in May 2014
Incident
Date
24 March 2015
Summary
Suicide by pilot
Site
Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
44°16'48?N 6°26'20?E
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Airbus A320-211
Operator
Germanwings
IATA flight No.
4U9525[a]
ICAO flight No.
GWI18G[1]
Call sign
GERMANWINGS 18 GOLF
Registration
D-AIPX
Flight origin
Barcelona–El Prat Airport, Barcelona, Spain
Destination
Düsseldorf Airport, Düsseldorf, Germany
Occupants
150
Passengers
144
Crew
6
Fatalities
150
Survivors
0
The crash was deliberately caused by the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies and declared unfit to work by his doctor. Lubitz kept this information from his employer and instead reported for duty. Shortly after reaching cruise altitude and while the captain was out of the cockpit, Lubitz locked the cockpit door and initiated a controlled descent that continued until the aircraft hit a mountainside.

Aviation authorities swiftly implemented new recommendations from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency that required two authorised personnel in the cockpit at all times but, by 2017, Germanwings and other German airlines had dropped the rule.

The Lubitz family held a press conference in March 2017 during which Lubitz's father said that they did not accept the official investigative findings that his son deliberately caused the crash. By 2017, Lufthansa had paid €75,000 to the family of every victim, as well as €10,000 in pain and suffering compensation to every close relative of a victim.

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Flight
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A map of the Mediterranean Sea, off the cost of Spain and France, with a red line connecting Barcelona on the left to a crash mark in the upper right, just north of the French coastline
Flight path
Germanwings Flight 9525 took off from Runway 07R at Barcelona–El Prat Airport on 24 March 2015 at 10:01 am CET (09:01 UTC), 26 minutes behind schedule.[4] It was due to arrive at Düsseldorf Airport by 11:39 CET.[2][5] According to the French national civil aviation inquiries bureau, the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA),[6] the pilots confirmed instructions from French air traffic control at 10:30 CET.

At 10:31 CET, after crossing the French coast near Toulon, the aircraft left its assigned cruising altitude of 38,000 ft (11,600 m) and without approval began to descend rapidly. The air traffic controller declared the aircraft in distress after its descent and loss of radio contact.[7][8][9]

An altitude chart with a red line curving steadily upwards, then suddenly straight down
Altitude chart (metres)[10][11]
The descent time from 38,000 ft was about 10 minutes; radar observed an average descent rate around 3,400 ft/min (58 ft/s (18 m/s)).[12] Attempts by French air traffic control to contact the flight on the assigned radio frequency were not answered. A French military Mirage jet was scrambled from the Orange-Caritat Air Base to intercept the aircraft.[13][14] Radar contact was lost at 10:40 CET; at the time, the aircraft had descended to 6,175 feet (1,880 m),[15] and crashed in the remote commune of Prads-Haute-Bléone, 100 km (62 mi; 54 nmi) north-west of Nice.[16][17][18][19] A seismological station of the Sismalp network, the Grenoble Observatory, 12 km (7.5 mi; 6.5 nmi) from the crash site, recorded the associated seismic event, determining the impact time as 10:41:05 CET.[20]

The crash was the deadliest air disaster in France since the 1981 crash of Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, in which 180 people died, and the third-deadliest French air disaster of all time, behind Flight 1308 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981.[21] This was the first major crash of a civil airliner in France since that of Concorde flight Air France Flight 4590 on take off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in 2000.[22][23]

Crash site
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Two barren, grey granite peaks rising from a ridge, against the blue sky
The Massif des Trois-Évêchés, where the crash site lies
The crash site is within the Massif des Trois-Évêchés, 3 km (1.9 mi; 1.6 nmi) east of the settlement Le Vernet and beyond the road to the Col de Mariaud, in an area known as the Ravin du Rosé.[24] The aircraft crashed on the southern side of the Tête du Travers,[25] a minor peak in the lower western slopes of the Tête de l'Estrop, at an elevation of 1,550 m (5,085.3 ft).[1]:?28? The aircraft was travelling at 700 km/h (380 kn; 435 mph) when it struck the mountain.[26] The site is about 10 km (6 mi; 5 nmi) west of Mount Cimet, where Air France Flight 178 crashed in 1953.[27][28]

Gendarmerie nationale and Sécurité Civile sent helicopters to locate the wreckage.[29] The aircraft had disintegrated; the largest piece of wreckage was the size of a car.[11] A helicopter landed near the crash site; its personnel confirmed no survivors.[30] The search and rescue team reported the debris field covered 2 km2 (500 acres).[18]

Source:Wikipedia

Engine
D-AIPX (The aircraft involved)

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