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Germanwings Flight 9525
Sign in to saveAlso known as Germanwings crash of 2015, French Alps plane crash of 2015, Airbus A320 crash of 2015, GWI9525, 4U9525
deliberate crash of an Airbus A320 in the French Alps on March 24, 2015
Germanwings Flight 9525 was a passenger plane that deliberately crashed in the French Alps on March 24, 2015, killing all 150 people on board. The incident raised urgent questions about airline safety procedures and mental health screening for pilots after investigators determined the crash was intentional.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- pilot suicide
- Country
- France
- Operator
- Germanwings
- Location
- Prads-Haute-Bléone
- Image
- 320 GERMANWINGS D-AIPX 147 10 05 14 BCN RIP (16730197959).jpg
- Number of deaths
- 6
- Number of injured
- 0
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- point in time
- 2015-03-24
- start point
- Josep Tarradellas Airport Barcelona-El Prat
- destination point
- Düsseldorf Airport
- aircraft registration
- D-AIPX
- number of survivors
- 0
- Commons category
- Germanwings Flight 9525
- flight number
- GWI18G
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Encyclopedic overview
Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa. On 24 March 2015, the Airbus A320-211 operating the flight crashed 100 km (62 mi; 54 nmi) north-west of Nice in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
The crash was deliberately caused by the first officer, Andreas Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies and declared unfit to work by his doctor. Lubitz kept this information from his employer and instead reported for duty. Shortly after reaching cruise altitude and while the captain was out of the cockpit, Lubitz locked the cockpit door and set the plane to fly downward in a controlled descent into a mountain.
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