Hundreds gather in France to mark Germanwings crash anniversary


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Mar 2016

Members of victim's families arrive to attend a ceremony for the first anniversary of the Germanwings crash at the memorial site in Le Vernet, France, March 24, 2016 to pay tribute to the 150 victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in a remote area of the French Alps near Seyne-les-Alpes. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

LE VERNET, France (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered in a tiny village in southern France on Thursday to remember the victims of the Germanwings plane crash one year ago.

All 150 onboard were killed when co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew an A320 jet into a French mountainside on a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on March 24, 2015.

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