little bit about the last contact this particular german wings flight had with air traffic control. apparently, they made a distress call at 10:37 in the morning local time. and then disappeared off the radar 33 minutes later. that particular distress call was quick, without any particular information. the plane itself wound up landing crashing near barcelona at 65 miles to the north of nice. they were just shy of 150 passengers on board when it went down. joining us now an aviation attorney and licensed pilot to shed light on this tragedy situation. again, no survivors expected. right now, we re trying to piece together exactly what happened that doomed that airline. so give us your thoughts based on the information we have so far. well, so far we re all trying to piece this together. it s still early in the process. one thing that comes to mind is
more what s going on, we ll have a full picture. the fact is, we have a tragedy here. and i would have to agree with the french president in that area. you re not going to have survivors. general, i can t thank you enough. stay close. we ll get more information and come back to you and see if we can further push towards zeroing in on what happened. if you re just waking up and trying to understand, so are we. there s been plane crash. this plane is a german wings plane. it s an airline that s a subsidiary of a larger airline. it was leaving from barcelona heading to germany. about 80 minutes in it dropped off radar and crashed. debris has been spotted in around southern france. right. it is currently 12:30 there at the crash site, which is described as hard to reach. the president of france has described this as a tragedy. no survivors are expected. search and rescue headed to the scene. we re able to piece together a
the a 320 would be somewhere around 180 i would suspect. so it was before we let you go, when people say a discount airline, that doesn t mean they re going by things cheaply, that just means there s no frills. yes, german wings had been there been. and german wings had gone bankrupt and was absorbed by another company. when i flew for this german airlines in munich, the quality of the pilots was excellent. a former pilot and air traffic controller if you re just waking up right now, apparently over the french alps a german wings a low cost airline one of their air bus a 320s went down. at least 142 passengers on board with six members of the crew as