Daily Mail: Britons on board doomed Germanwings Flight 4U 9525: Foreign Secretary says it's 'likely' Brits died in disaster that killed 150 - as it emerges jet was grounded over faults just 24 HOURS before devastating crash
* Airbus A320 was carrying 144 passengers - including two babies and 16 German children - plus six crew members
* It is likely that some British nationals were on board the flight, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said tonight
* Reports suggest the aircraft had been grounded just 24 hours before it crashed into remote region of French Alps
* One of plane's black box recorders has been found and will be examined immediately, says French interior minister
* Two opera singers named as among the victims, along with Spanish woman believed to be living in Manchester
* German schoolchildren and two of their teachers were travelling home from nine-day exchange trip to Barcelona
* 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 were deployed to the scene, but warned it could take days to retrieve any bodies
* Search of crash site has been called off due to difficult conditions and is expected to resume tomorrow morning
British nationals are likely to be among the 150 people who lost their lives when Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 lost altitude and ploughed into an Alpine mountainside at more than 400mph, the Foreign Secretary said tonight.
The announcement from Philip Hammond came just hours after the first pictures emerged of victims killed when the Airbus A320 crashed in a remote region of the French Alps on a 90-minute flight from Spain to Germany.
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