Families of victims mark 10th anniversary of the Germanwings plane crash

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Families of victims mark 10th anniversary of the Germanwings plane crash  The 2015 crash caused shock when investigators revealed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the plane into a French mountainside.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/24/families-of-victims-mark-10th-anniversary-of-the-germanwings-plane-crash  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Commemorations have been held in Germany, France and Spain for the victims of the German

00:05Wings plane crash, ten years after the tragedy took place.

00:11A hundred and fifty people were killed after the passenger jet, which was travelling from

00:17Barcelona in Spain to Düsseldorf in Germany, was deliberately downed by its co-pilot in

00:23March 2015.

00:26The victims included 16 students and two teachers from a high school in the western German town

00:32of Haltern am See, who were returning home from an exchange trip to Spain.

00:38In Haltern, students placed roses in the courtyard of the Joseph Koenig High School, while hundreds

00:45of people gathered in front of a plaque bearing the victims' names.

00:51At 10.41am, the exact time of the crash, a moment of silence was held.

00:57Wreaths were also laid at the town cemetery, where some of the students are buried.

01:03Elsewhere, relatives of victims travelled to the site of the crash in the French Alps,

01:09while commemorations were also planned at the airports in Düsseldorf and Barcelona.

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