Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences to German Chancellor Angela Merkel following the crash of the Germanwings Airbus A320 plane. German citizens are believed to have made up the majority of the passengers on the jet.
The owner of a camp site in the French Alps near the scene of the crash says he heard a series of loud noises coming from the air before the Germanwings A320 Airbus crashed. Pierre Polizzi told AP the noise began at 11:30 local time.
"There are often fighter jets flying over, so I thought it sounded just like that. I looked outside but I couldn't see any fighter planes."
"The noise I heard was long - like 8 seconds - as if the plane was going more slowly than a military plane speed. There was another long noise about 30 seconds later."
Polizzi said it would be difficult to get to the site of the crash. "The mountain is snowy and very hostile." .... http://rt.com
