No Azerbaijanis on board of crashed Germanwings
The recently crashed Germanwings airliner had no citizens of
Azerbaijan on board, according to a message from the German Foreign
Ministry to Azerbaijani embassy in that country.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev told Trend
that the received information was preliminary, and the
investigation is ongoing.
Following the incident, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry instructed the
country's embassies in France, Germany and Spain to inquire if
Azerbaijani citizens were among the passengers of the crashed
aircraft in the French Alps.
The Germanwings Airbus A-320 crashed in a remote region of the
French Alps Tuesday afternoon. The airliner carried 142 passengers
and 8 crew members. The route of the airliner was from Barcelona to
Dusseldorf. According to reports, most likely, all of the
passengers were killed in the crash.
According to media reports, on the board of plane were mainly
citizens of Germany, Spain, and, according to some sources, Turkey
and several other countries. The causes and circumstances of the
disaster are being investigated.
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