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Seychelles expresses sympathy following German aircraft disaster |26 March 2015

In a message of condolence to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President James Michel has offered the prayers and support of the Seychellois people following Tuesday’s aircraft disaster with over 150 souls aboard in the French Alps.

President Michel described the event as a “terrible tragedy which affects us all and in this grave hour we stand shoulder to shoulder with the German people”.

All 150 passengers and crew on board the Airbus A320 operated by Germanwings are presumed dead after the aircraft crashed in the French Alps region on Tuesday.

Search teams have been struggling to work in the remote mountainous area where the aircraft crashed.
Germanwings said the Flight 4U9525 plane, which was travelling from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany, started descending one minute after reaching its cruising height and continued losing altitude for eight minutes.

Speaking to reporters, Germanwings executive Thomas Winkelmann said: “The aircraft's contact with French radar, French air traffic controllers ended at 10:53am (9:57GMT) at an altitude of about 6,000 feet (approximately 1,825 metres). The plane then crashed.”

 

 

 

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