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A French court has closed an inquiry into the deadly crash of a Germanwings flight in the French Alps in 2015. It said no one could have foreseen the murder-suicide of the co-pilot, who deliberately flew into a mountain.
scene in the alps. the recovery will soon come to a close today, right? reporter: the sun is setting here in seyne-les-alpes. it s a very difficult operation, especially in very windy conditions such as in the last couple of days. what they re doing there is 15 of them are dna specialists. they are trying to collect as much dna samples, as many as they can from the body parts. investigators haven t found a body that is intact because of the violence of that impact. and then they will try to match that dna with of course the dna samples left by the families to identify the victims. the other 15 are recovery specialists. they will be looking through the thousands of pieces of debris very small debris that may help
investigators to rule out the possibility of a technical fault, for instance. but the one thing they ll be looking at is the second black box, the flight data recorder it s only that that can rule out the possibility. let me just insist that the german investigators believe and are almost sure that it was the co-pilot that flew the plane into the mountain range. but it s not confirmed yet. it could be even the french newspapers le figueroa say they need to be open to another hypothesis. in the meantime the families keep coming here at seyne-les-alpes, they are laying flowers in a makeshift memorial set up in a small village not too far from here with a view to the crash site. there were some family members could from colombia and japan. and many more are coming every single day here alex. and, claudio, i think our
parts of that plane that can be recovered at this point. we ve been told this morning tamron, that the first body parts or bodies have been airlifted from that crash site but certainly the news of the day is that revelation the shocking revelation that the co-pilot may have downed the plane voluntarily. must have come as a massive shock to families who just arrived here 15 minutes ago in seyne-les-alpes. not too far from the crash site and not far from this airfield in a makeshift chapel where they are attending a special ceremony for the victims. later they will be taking to the mountain where they will set up a makeshift memorial. we ve seen some flags and many of the nationalities that were on the plane being set up there. some would just walk to the crash site from that distance and that location. others who feel like they will be transported, airlifted with