One hundred fifty people are feared dead after a German passenger jet crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday morning.
Germanwings flight 4U 9525 was less than an hour into its route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf when it went into a long descent and crashed between Barcelonnette and Digne, the airline's CEO said Tuesday. It's not clear what caused the descent or crash.
Here is a brief look at the crash by the numbers.
150: Number of people aboard the jet — 144 passengers and six crew members.
2: Number of babies included in the passenger count.
16: Number of 10th-graders from a German high school who were on the plane, along with their two teachers.
38,000: Altitude at which the plane was cruising just before it began its descent and crashed.
8: The number of minutes the plane descended steadily before crashing.
6,550: The approximate altitude of the Alpine site where the plane crashed, near the town of Digne in the French Alps.
More than 400: The number of police officers and rescue personnel dispatched to the area of the crash, according to the French Interior Ministry.
More than 6,000: The number of hours the plane's captain had logged on the plane.
24: The age of the plane that crashed.
46,700: The number of flights that plane had made before its crash.
About 58,300: the number of flight hours the aircraft accumulated since it was delivered to Lufthansa in 1991, according to Airbus.
1953: The year an Air France plane crashed the near the town of Barcelonette, killing 49 people.
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