get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. our breaking news. it s been six hours since a commercial jet with 150 passengers and crew crashed in the french alps. searchers still trying to locate the wreckage of germanwings flight 9525. authorities say expect no survivors. let s bring in tom foreman here to get a sense of the terrain and what the search might be like and also the circumstances that led up to this crash. tom? you can look at that photograph you just had on there and have an idea of what we re talking about here. look at the mountains in this region. this is a serious area of mountainous hiking reaching anything back into the mountains here. this is shorter than the colorado rockies but a very similar environment and the area where we re talking about this plane going down would be more than a mile in the air so if you
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they don t see a terrorist link to what s happened out there. jim acosta reporting live from the white house, thank you. we may not know what caused germanwings flight 9525 to crash, but we certainly from information about that very aircraft. the plane was an airbus model a320. the twin engine single aisle aircraft. it was carrying 150 people. we can confirm that is the final number, 150. it was delivered to lufthansa from the production line back in 1991. and it had just a little more than 58,000 flight hours on it. joining me now with a virtual look at the flight path and the very rough terrain where that plane crashed is cnn s tom foreman. can you walk me through everything that we know technically about this plane and where it crashed? well, we know, as you said, it wasn t a particularly old aircraft, not by industry standards. it was inspected by lufthansa engineers just the day before this flight. they re very good engineers. it was piloted by a very capable
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through a set of automatic barriers to a private area where that crisis center has been set up. now, in addition to aviation authorities and airline representatives, there are also medics and psychologists in that crisis center as well. they ll be looking after the family members as more information has been passed to them. as we know right now from germanwings, the airline company part of lufthansa, they say that they believe at least 67 germans were onboard. we re also hearing from city hall officials in the german town of hulton that 16 students from that town have bn booked on this flight. we don t know whether they boarded the flight but there is a chance that 16 exchange students from germany may have boarded that flight as well. we don t know anything about the other passengers in terms of how many other nationalities were onboard. bear in mind that barcelona is a
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germanwings, the airline, says at least 67 germans. we have seen arriving at a crisis center set up for family members here, spanish relatives arriving of presumably the spanish passengers on board. we also understand there may be a number of turkish passengers on board. but among the german passengers, we ve heard over the last few moments from the city hall in halten, north of the destination of duflsseldorf, that 16 high school students were booked on this flight with their teacher. they had been in spain on an exchange program, on a student exchange program. we re still waiting to hear whether in fact they did check in for that flight and were on board at the time. but bear in mind that barcelona is a very touristic city. it has a number of main attractions here for both
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