France – Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that an Israeli citizen was on an Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline that crashed in a remote area of the French Alps earlier in the day.
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The family has been informed, the ministry said. The man, a 40-year-old originally from Hod HaSharon, was living in Germany and was flying back from Barcelona when the plane went down.
The victim was identified as Eyal Baum according to ‘Ynet
One of the plane’s black box recorders has been found and will be examined immediately, France’s interior minister said.
The airline believed there were 67 Germans on the flight. Spain’s deputy prime minister said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian was aboard.
Also among the victims were 16 children and two teachers from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in the town of Haltern am See in northwest Germany, a spokeswoman said.
Investigators described a scene of devastation where the airliner crashed. Aerial photographs showed smouldering wreckage and a piece of the fuselage with six windows.
French authorities have called off the search for after night fell on the hard-to-reach area.
Lt. Col. Simon-Pierre Delannoy of the regional police rescue service said on BFM television that the conditions for the search had become too difficult.
Helicopters stopped flying over the area at nightfall.
The complex search operation was expected to resume Wednesday morning.
The Airbus A320 was traveling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf when it crashed Tuesday on a mountainside near Meolans-Revels and the popular Pra Loup ski resort.
The only logical explanation of why this plain went down, is that it was some kind of Arab Suicide mission, who did it intentionally.
Obama still wants to give these type Arab Murderers, their own state.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes.