Germanwings plane crashes in French Alps

French emergency rescue services work among debris of the Germanwings passenger jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France.

French emergency rescue services work among debris of the Germanwings passenger jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France.

A photo from the French Aviation Authority BEA shows a box containing the flight data recorder from the Germanwings A320 airplane that crashed in the French Alps on March 24.

French gendarmes get ready to go to the crash site of the German Airbus A320 of carrier Germanwings as part of the search operations in Seyne-les-Alpes.

French emergency rescue services work among debris of the Germanwings passenger jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France. The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly sped up the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps, the French air accident investigation agency said Friday.

The family of Australian victim Carol Friday, Malcolm Coram and his daughters Philippa, left, and Georgina, visit the memorial of the plane crash in Le Vernet, France.

Gendarme Bruno Hermignies stands by a bulldozer clearing a path to the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, on Monday.

Flowers are offered on March 29 in front of a stone monument in the area where a Germanwings aircraft crashed in the French Alps.  (Claude Paris / Associated Press)

Forensic experts of the French disaster victim identification unit work under a tent near the site of the March 24 crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320 in which all 150 people on board were killed.   (AFP/Getty Images)

Workers collect debris and search for the second black box at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps on March 29.  (Yoan Valat / EPA)

Searchers work at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps, above the town of Seyne-les-Alpes, on March 29.   (Yoan Valat / EPA)

Flowers are laid around a stele, carved in French, German, Spanish and English in memory of the victims of the Germanwings crash, in the village of Le Vernet.  (Jeff Pachoud / AFP/Getty Images)

A 2009 photo shows Germanwings copilot Andreas Lubitz competing at the Airportrun in Hamburg, Germany.  (Michael Mueller / Associated Press)

An investigator is lifted by a helicopter above debris at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps.   (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP/Getty Images)

Firefighters stand in front of candles and flowers on the steps to the Joseph-Koenig high school in Haltern, Germany, before a memorial service.

Police stand in front of the home of the parents of Andreas Lubitz, copilot on Germanwings flight 9525, in Montabaur, Germany. Lubitz divided his time between his parents’ home and an apartment in Duesseldorf.

Authorities carry a computer and other items from the home of the parents of Andreas Lubitz, copilot in a flight that crashed in southern France this week.

Relatives of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash victims gather during a remembrance ceremony as rescuers hold flags of the passengers’ nationalities near the village of Le Vernet, France, on March 26.

Relatives of victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash arrive in Seyne-des-Alpes, France, near where the aircraft went down, on March 26.

An investigator is lifted by helicopter on March 26 as officials work at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that went down in the French Alps.

Investigators work on March 26 amid the debris of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps.

Police stand outside the house in Montabaur, Germany, where Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet, lived.  (Michael Probst / Associated Press)

Activity stops for a moment of silence on the streets of Haltern, Germany, at 10:53 a.m. Thursday, the time of Monday’s Germanwings jet crash. Sixteen students and two teachers from Haltern died in the crash.  (Martin Meissner / Associated Press)

Flags fly at half-staff at a castle in Schwerin in eastern Germany on March 25 in memory of the victims of the Germanwings crash.

French President Francois Hollande, third from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy arrive n March 25 near the site where a German airliner crashed in the French Alps.  (Jeff Pachoud / AFP/Getty Images)

Workers at the plane crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, on March 25, after a Germanwings jetliner crashed in the French Alps.   (Laurent Cipriani / Associated Press)

A helicopter carrying search and rescue workers heads to the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps, above the town of Seyne-les-Alpes, in southeastern France.   (Guillaume Horacajuelo / EPA)

Students gather at a memorial of flowers and candles in front of the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium secondary school in Haltern am See, Germany, for some of their classmates and teachers killed in the Germanwings plane crash.  (Sascha Schuermann / AFP/Getty Images)

Employees of German airline Germanwings light candles and flowers for the victims of the Germanwings plane crash in front of the company’s headquarters in Cologne, Germany, on March 25, a day after after a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.  (Maruis Becker / AFP/Getty Images)

Members of the Spanish parliament observe a minute of silence for crash victims in Madrid on March 25.   (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press)

A photo released by French authorities on March 25 shows the battered cockpit voice recorder recovered from the Germanwings A320 that crashed in the French Alps.  (BEA / EPA)

Helicopters of the French gendarmerie and emergency services fly over Seyne-les-Alpes on March 25, 2015, as they resume works to recover the remains of the Airbus A320 that crashed the previous day in the Alps.   (Alberto Estevez / EPA)

Firefighters and members of the emergency services meet at dawn on March 25, 2015, to start recovering the remains of the passengers on Germanwings 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.   (Alberto Estevez / EPA )

People arrive at an airport in Barcelona, Spain, after a Germanwings passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed on March 24 in the French Alps.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, center, is sheltered from the rain upon his arrival in Seyne, southeastern France, near the site where a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed.   (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP/Getty Images)

People arrive at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany, after the crash. The plane was en route from Barcelona, Spain, to the German city.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

A student lights a candle in front of the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany, after the crash.  (Martin Meissner / Associated Press)

A French civil security services helicopter flies in southeastern France, near where a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps on March 24.   (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP/Getty Images)

A screen grab from AFP TV shows search and rescue personnel at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps.  (Denis Bois / AFP/Getty Images)

A rescue helicopter flies over debris of the Germanwings passenger jet, scattered on the mountainside, near Seyne les Alpes.  (Claude Paris / Associated Press)

A screen grab taken from AFP TV shows debris from a GermanWings Airbus A320 at the crash site in the French Alps above the southeastern town of Seyne.   (Denis Bois / AFP/Getty Images)

Members of the Gendarmerie, a French police force, and mountain rescue teams arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps near La Seyne.   (Patrick Aventurier / Getty Images)

French mountain rescue teams arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps.   (Patrick Aventurier / Getty Images)

Relatives of passengers on the crashed Airbus A320 operated by German budget airline Germanwings arrive at El Prat Airport in Barcelona on March 24.   (Alejandro Garcia / EPA)

A man who appears to have waited for the missing Flight 9525 covers his face at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany, after a Germanwings passenger jet carrying more than 140 people crashed in the French Alps.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

Members of the Airport Care Team gather at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany, where the crashed Germanwings airplane had been scheduled to land.   (Oliver Berg / AFP/Getty Images)

Relatives of passengers of the crashed Airbus A320 aircraft operated by German budget airline Germanwings arrive at El Prat airport in Barcelona.  (Alejandro Garcia / EPA)

Police officers guard a private area for people waiting for Flight 9525 at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

A woman waiting for Flight 9525 is led away by airport staff in Duesseldorf, Germany.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

The headquarters of the airline Germanwings in Cologne, Germany.   (Marius Becker / Associated Press)

Two men waiting for Flight 9525 are led away by airport staff in Duesseldorf, Germany.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

The airport arrivals board shows 9525 from Barcelona without a status in Duesseldorf, Germany.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

A Germanwings passenger plane crashed in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf, Germany. A file photo of a Germanwings Airbus A320 in Cologne, Germany.  (Martin Meissner / Associated Press)