Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 Crash News Updates -- March 24, 2015

Daily Mail: Search aircraft find the remains of Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 scattered all over an alpine mountainside: Riddle over why pilots didn't send SOS despite taking eight minutes to fall 32,000 feet

* Airbus A320 was carrying 144 passengers - including two babies and 16 German children - plus six crew members
* Plane plummetted into remote area of the French Alps en route from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany
* Early reports said the pilots issued a Mayday signal and requested an emergency descent after reaching 38,000ft
* But sources later denied air traffic controllers received any such call, saying it was them that declared emergency
* Some 150 firefighters and police have been deployed to the scene, but warn it could take days to retrieve any bodies

The final moments of Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 were shrouded in mystery today after air traffic controllers claimed they received no SOS despite the jet nosediving 32,000ft in just eight minutes.

All 144 passengers and six crew were today presumed dead after the Airbus A320 crashed in a remote region of the French Alps en route from Spain to Germany.

Two babies were among 45 Spanish on board and 16 children from the same school on an exchange trip were among some 100 Germans also feared to have died.

Images from the first rescue helicopters to reach the remote crash site showed wreckage scattered across hundreds of metres of mountainside, with some debris the size of a car.

Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 Crash News Updates -- March 24, 2015

Airbus A320 crash in France: Live -- BBC
The Latest: France: 10 helicopters at Alps plane crash site -- AP
Live: 'No survivors' from Germanwings crash in southern France -- France 24
First pictures emerge of Germanwings Airbus A320 crash that killed 150 people in the French Alps: Live -- The Telegraph
Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashes in French Alps with 150 on board - live updates -- The Guardian
Airbus A320 plane crash in Southern France LIVE UPDATES -- RT

Jet crashes in Alps with 150 aboard; no survivors expected -- AP
Germanwings Airbus crashes in French Alps, 150 dead -- Reuters
Germanwings plane crash: What we know so far -- France 24
Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps -- BBC
Plane carrying 150 crashes in France; no survivors expected -- Washington Post
Germanwings Airbus Carrying 150 Crashes in French Alps -- NYT
150 feared dead after plane crashes in French Alps -- Al Jazeera
Rugged French Alps combed for evidence in plane crash believed to have killed 150 -- FOX News
Germanwings A320 Passenger Jet With 150 Aboard Crashes in Southern France -- Sputnik
Victims of Germanwings Airbus Crash From Germany, Spain, Turkey - Hollande -- Sputnik
Germanwings says plane crashed after eight-minute descent -- Reuters
French police say to take days to recover bodies in air crash -- Reuters
No signs of French crash survivors: Spanish king -- Reuters
Germany, France, Spain Agree to Jointly Investigate A320 Crash - Merkel -- Sputnik
Germany's Merkel to travel to Germanwings crash site in France -- Reuters
European Leaders Express Condolences to Families of Airbus A320 Passengers -- Sputnik
German town fears 16 school children on Germanwings plane -- Reuters
Spain's Deputy PM says 45 on crashed plane believed to be Spanish -- Reuters
Airline still notifying victims' relatives -- Daily Mail/AP
Germanwings, Lufthansa darken Twitter account images after crash -- CTV News
Germanwings A320 plane crash, in pictures -- The Telegraph
Airbus A320 aircraft are popular, relatively safe -- USA Today
Revealed: Germanwings flight 4U9525 received safety warning just four months ago after sister plane went into tailspin -- Daily Mail
7 facts about Lufthansa's Germanwings -- Reuters
Mechanical issue may have caused Germanwings crash -- CTV News
Why the Germanwings Plane Crash is So Surprising -- Simon Shuster, Time
What could have happened to Germanwings Airbus A320? -- The Telegraph
Airbus A320 Workhorse: 6,200 in Global Fleet, 12 Fatal Crashes -- Bloomberg
Airbus A320 in Facts and Details -- Sputnik
Timeline: Major air disasters -- Al Jazeera