Relatives of the victims arrived at the scene of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps 10 years ago, as hundreds of people gathered in silence in the German town where the 18-strong school group was on board the tragic plane.
The plane took off from Barcelona, Spain, on the morning of March 24, 2015, and was scheduled to land in Dusseldorf, Germany.
However, it did not reach its destination because co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed it, according to investigators.
All 150 people on board died.
The victims included a group of 16 students and two teachers from a school in the western German town of Haltern am See who were returning home after an exchange in Spain.
Also among the dead were two infants, a pair of famous German opera singers and a member of an Argentine rock band, three generations of a family, a mother and son on holiday, a recently married couple, as well as people on business trips and others returning home.
Most of them were from Germany and Spain, but in total the victims came from 17 countries.
On Monday, many families of the victims visited the site of the disaster in southeastern France.
In the nearby village of Le Vernet, local authorities laid flowers together with Carsten Spohr, CEO of Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings.
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