德国之翼航空公司总经理托马斯·温克尔曼24日说，根据目前已知信息，该公司当天在法国境内失事的客机上没有中国公民。
温克尔曼在德国科隆的新闻发布会上说，失事飞机上共载有144名乘客和6名机组人员，乘客包括两名婴儿和16名学生。机上有德国籍公民67人。
A Germanwings plane carrying 150 people has crashed in the French Alps on its way fromBarcelona to Duesseldorf.
The Airbus A320 - flight 4U 9525 - went down between Digne and Barcelonnette. There are nosurvivors, officials say.
The "black box" flight recorder has been found, France's interior minister says. The cause of thecrash is not known and the plane sent no distress signal during an eight-minute descent.
Among the passengers were 16 German pupils returning from an exchange trip.
Germanwings, a low-cost airline owned by Germany's main carrier Lufthansa, has an excellentsafety record. French, Spanish and German leaders have expressed shock.
A recovery team reached the site, in a remote mountain ravine, earlier on Tuesday. Their work wascalled off in the evening and will resume at first light on Wednesday, the French interior ministrysaid.
Bruce Robin, a prosecutor from Marseille, told the Reuters news agency that he had seen thewreckage of the aircraft from a helicopter.
"The body of the plane is in a state of destruction, there is not one intact piece of wing orfuselage," he said.
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