European leaders visit scene of Germanwings air crash
- 9 years ago
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have flown over the remote region in the French Alps where a Germanwings plane crashed yesterday – killing 150 people.
They were later joined by Spain’s Mariano Rajoy in the village of Seyne-les-Alpes, the headquarters of the search operations.
The leaders took time to thank the emergency teams who are combing the mountainous terrain, which has been left strewn with debris.
Their visit came as investigators confirmed that usable audio files have been extracted from the cockpit voice recorder of the Airbus A320, which was found yesterday.
But it is too early to know what brought down the jet, en-route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf.
“We think about the victims of German origin, but also those from other countries. This is a real tragedy and our visit here has shown this once more,” said Angela Merkel.
Mariano Rajoy added: “We are going to work together and. We are up to the task in such difficult and co
They were later joined by Spain’s Mariano Rajoy in the village of Seyne-les-Alpes, the headquarters of the search operations.
The leaders took time to thank the emergency teams who are combing the mountainous terrain, which has been left strewn with debris.
Their visit came as investigators confirmed that usable audio files have been extracted from the cockpit voice recorder of the Airbus A320, which was found yesterday.
But it is too early to know what brought down the jet, en-route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf.
“We think about the victims of German origin, but also those from other countries. This is a real tragedy and our visit here has shown this once more,” said Angela Merkel.
Mariano Rajoy added: “We are going to work together and. We are up to the task in such difficult and co