BERILN, March 24-- German budget airline Germanwings confirmed Tuesday that a school class comprising 16 German students and two teachers were onboard its flight 4U9525, which crashed on Tuesday morning.
The remarks were made by Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann at a press conference on Tuesday evening.
The students and teachers came from a school in Haltern located near Duesseldorf, capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said Winkelmannn.
He did not give further information about the nationalities of the victims, but that relatives and friends of the victims were being taken care of by teams from Germanwings and Lufthansa in Spain and Germany.
Winkelmannn told reporters that teams from Germanwings, Lufthansa, Lufthansa Technik, Airbus, and German air accident investigators had arrived in France and were en route to the crash scene.
This is the second press conference made by Germanwings since it confirmed that its flight 4U9525 had crashed in the French Alps with 150 people onboard. Further updates about the crash were due to be made by the airline on Wednesday morning.
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