Germanwings Plane Crashes — 148 Feared Dead

By: Ben Schlappig

Updated: June 16, 2021
Published: March 24, 2015

19 comments

News has unfortunately hit this morning that a Germanwings Airbus A320 traveling from Barcelona to Dusseldorf (flight 9525), has crashed in southeastern France, near Digne les Bains.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls fears that the 142 passengers and six crew are dead.

Absolutely horrible, and my thoughts are with the families and friends of those aboard.

When it comes to breaking news on plane crashes, no one is quite on top of it like @thatjohn, so I’d suggest following him on Twitter for the most up to date information.

Here’s to hoping they’re able to do a quick investigation, and again, my thoughts with the friends and families of those onboard.

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dsax Guest

September 17, 2025, 6:37 pm

Germans will be germans. Italian pilots are way better.

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No Name Guest

March 25, 2015, 11:06 pm

@tara My guess is that the plane was up for a d-check soon (due to it's age) and LH/Germanwings was trying to use up any remaining cycles before scraping her hence the many short flights. Since cycles, landings and age is 3 factors that drives maintenance on planes. And yes any track that ends like that is scary as hell.

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No Name Guest

March 25, 2015, 10:58 pm

Not good, seem like one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit and was heard banging/smashing on the door on the way down. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germanwings-flight-4u9525-pilot-locked-out-of-cockpit-before-crash-new-york-times-reports-1.3008432 Over on PPRUNE the debate seems to be whether it was a medical emergency or murder-suicide, the murder-suicide side to be the strongest.

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tara Guest

March 25, 2015, 12:17 am

Awww, I'm seeing RIPs for the aircraft in addition to the victims. Aircraft fans are a special bunch of people. (I write that with all sincerity, zero snark.)

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tara Guest

March 24, 2015, 11:59 pm

It looks like this aircraft, DAIPX, was a little workhorse around Germany, Switzerland, and Austria with an occasional hop to LHR. 6 flights per day on some days. And then it was called into service for the BCN/DUS route. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAIPX/history No Name, the flight tracking is chilling. It wasn't at 38000 feet for very long. I feel sick for the loved ones of the victims.

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