http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/germanwings-airbus-a320-crash-live-5390012
The final words from the pilots on board the Germanwings flight were ‘emergency , emergency’.
It has been reported that the call came through just 45 minutes after the Airbus A320 took off from Barcelona on its way to Dusseldorf.
Earlier, the Airbus was in contact with Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Marseille, saying: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday”
According to the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAE) they also received a distress FA, which happens when a plane disappears from radars, or blacks out and all communications are cut with the cockpit.
Independent:
Sébastien Giroud, owner of saw-works near the crash site in Prads, told our correspondent John Lichfield that he had glimpsed the plane for two or three seconds as it struggled over the village.
“It was very low, only 1,500 or 2,000 metres and it
seemed to be falling. I said to myself: ‘that’s not going to make it over the
mountains. I never heard a thing.”