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Image | Twitter via @OutFrontCNN<\/h6>\n

By Daniel Ortelli and Renaud Lavergne, SEYNE<\/strong><\/p>\n

A plane operated by the budget carrier of Germany’s Lufthansa has crashed in a remote area of the French Alps, killing all 150 on board in the worst aviation disaster on French soil in decades.<\/p>\n

The accident’s cause is a mystery but authorities have recovered a black box from the Airbus A320 at the crash site, where rescue efforts were being hampered by the mountainous terrain.<\/p>\n

Victims included an Australian mother and son, as well as 16 German teenagers on a school trip.<\/p>\n

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The mayor of the children’s hometown called it “the darkest day in the history of our city.”<\/p>\n

At airports in Barcelona and Duesseldorf, the departure and destination, some relatives wailed in grief.<\/p>\n

Local MP Christophe Castaner, who flew over the site, said on Twitter: “Horrendous images in this mountain scenery. Nothing is left but debris and bodies.<\/p>\n

“A horror – the plane is totally destroyed.”<\/p>\n

Video images from a government helicopter flying near the area showed a desolate snow-flecked moonscape, with steep ravines covered in scree.<\/p>\n

Debris was strewn across the mountainside, pieces of twisted metal smashed into tiny bits by the violence of the crash.<\/p>\n

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who also made a pass over the crash site, described a “horrific sight.”<\/p>\n

“The grief of the families and loved ones is immeasurable. We must now all stand together. We are all united in great sorrow,” said the minister.<\/p>\n

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Budget airline Germanwings said the Airbus plunged for eight minutes but the crew made no distress call before crashing near the ski resort of Barcelonnette, according to French officials.<\/p>\n

“A black box was found and will be delivered to investigators,” Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.<\/p>\n

Weather did not appear to be a factor in the crash, with conditions “calm” at the time.<\/p>\n

“There was no cloud at the plane’s cruising altitude”, winds were “light to moderate” and there was no turbulence that could have contributed to the crash, French weather officials said.<\/p>\n

Lufthansa said it was working on the assumption the crash was an “accident”.<\/p>\n

“Anything else would be speculation,” Lufthansa vice president Heike Birlenbach told reporters at Barcelona’s El Prat airport.<\/p>\n

She said the 24-year-old Airbus A320 had undergone its last routine check on Monday.<\/p>\n

French civil aviation authorities said they lost contact with the aircraft, carrying 144 mainly Spanish and German passengers – including two babies – and six crew at 10:30am.<\/p>\n

Germanwings said 67 Germans were believed to have been on board while Spain said 45 people with Spanish-sounding names were on the flight.<\/p>\n

French President Francois Hollande said he would meet his German and Spanish counterparts at the crash site on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The dead included Germans, Spaniards and “probably” Turks, Hollande said, while Belgium and Denmark said at least one of their nationals was on board.<\/p>\n

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said a Victorian mother and her adult son were among the victims, as was singer Oleg Bryjak of the Duesseldorf opera house.<\/p>\n

“We have lost a great artist and a great man … We are shocked,” said Christoph Meyer, general director of the opera house.<\/p>\n

It was the first fatal accident in the history of Germanwings, and the deadliest on the French mainland since 1974 when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed, killing 346 people.<\/p>\n

The world’s worst air disasters remains the March 27, 1977, collision of two Boeing 747s on the runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people.<\/p>\n

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