How the Germanwings tragedy is unfolding

A Germanwings Airbus A320 has crashed in southern France.

Germanwings Airbus A320 like the one which crashed in France.

A map of the flight path and crash zone.

France's President Francois Hollande said he believed none of the passengers or crew on board the plane had survived.

French president Francois Hollande (R) addresses media next to Spain's King Felipe VI (C) and Queen Letizia of Spain who were in France when the disaster happened.

A relative (C) of passengers of the Germanwings plane crashed in French Alps arrives at Barcelona El Prat airport in Spain.

People arrive at a holding area for friends and relatives of passengers on Germanwings flight 4U9525 at Duesseldorf International Airport.

A relative (C) of passangers of the Germanwings plane crashed in French Alps arrives at the Barcelona El Prat airport on in Spain.

German wings flight crash in French Alps

An electronic board displays non status of Germanwings flight 4U9525 at Duesseldorf International Airport.

Distressed relatives at Barcelona Airport following the crash.

People waiting for flight 4U 9525 are led away by airport staff at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany.

Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann confirms at a press conference in Cologne there were 144 passengers on board – including two infants – two pilots and four cabin crew.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve arrives near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 24.

Gendarmerie and French mountain rescue teams arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps on March 24.

Gendarmerie and French mountain rescue teams arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 24, battling foggy conditions.

Gendarmerie and French mountain rescue teams arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps.

A German rescue worker at the crash site in the Alps.

Rescue helicopter assesses the crash site in the French Alps on March 24.

A vigil was erected at Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium secondary school in Haltern am See, Germany, to remember sixteen German teenagers and two teachers on a school exchange trip who were on the fatal plane crash.

Carol Friday and son Greig were on board the Germanwings Airbus A320.

Victorians Carol Friday and son Greig were on board the fatal Germanwings flight.

Part of the vertical stabiliser of the Germanwings Airbus A320 at the crash site in the French Alps.

germanwings plane crash one black box located cockpit voice recorder

A helicopter flying past debris of the Germanwings passenger jet.

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