According to reports, a Germanwings Airbus A320 has crashed in French Alps near the Digne region in France.
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French air investigators are examining one of the black boxes of the doomed Germanwings plane to find out why the aircraft crashed into a mountain in the French Alps, killing the 150 people on board.
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