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Lufthansa says working on assumption Germanwings crash was 'accident'

The logo of German airline Lufthansa (top) and its Germanwings subsidiary at the airport in Duesseldorf, western Germany on March 24, 2015. PHOTO | SASCHA SCHUERMANN |

By  AFP

What you need to know:

  • "For the time being, we say it's an accident, anything else would be speculation," says airline's vice president.

BARCELONA

Lufthansa is working on the assumption that the crash on Tuesday of an Airbus operated by its budget carrier Germanwings was an accident, the airline's vice president said.

"For the time being, we say it's an accident, anything else would be speculation," Lufthansa vice president Heike Birlenbach told reporters at Barcelona's El Prat airport from where the plane took off.

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