article_snippet: The Airbus A320 was carrying six crew and 144 passengers, including 16 German teenagers returning home from a school trip, when The Airbus A320 crashed into an alpine ravine.
article_snippet: The Airbus A320 was carrying six crew and 144 passengers, including 16 German teenagers returning home from a school trip, from Barcelona to Dusseldorf when The Airbus A320 crashed into an alpine ravine.
article_snippet: In audio files extracted from Lufthansa - discovered on Wednesday at the remote crash site - the captain was heard growing increasingly distressed as Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz tried to force Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz way back into the flight deck.
article_snippet: French authorities installed a monument to honour the victims of flight, which was travelling from Barcelona to Dusseldorf .
article_snippet: The screams of passengers aware of their fate could be heard in the final seconds.
article_snippet: their would have died immediately, prosecutors said.
article_snippet: Lufthansa said the aircraft was carrying citizens of 18 countries.
article_snippet: Three Americans and three Britons were confirmed among the victims.
article_snippet: It was the deadliest air crash on the French mainland since 1974 when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed, killing 346 people.
highlights_snippet: 150 people died when co-pilot forced plane to descend, prosecutors said .