article_snippet: The plane was carrying 144 passengers - including two babies - and six crew members.
article_snippet: Sixteen German school students from the same class were also on board.
article_snippet: French officials say there were 'no survivors' following the loss of the plane operated by Germanwings - a low-cost subsidiary of Lufthansa.
article_snippet: French emergency services workers and members of the French gendarmerie gather in Seyne, south-eastern France near the site where a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps .
article_snippet: Rescue teams based in the south eastern French town of Seyene prepare to takeoff to continue the search for bodies of those killed in plane crash .
article_snippet: Sixteen German school students from the English-speaking Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium in Haltern-am-See, near Dusseldorf were also on board the doomed flight .
article_snippet: her adult son added that teams from Germanwings were in Dusseldorf with the families of those on board and that Lufthansa and Germanwings technical staff were on Lufthansa and Germanwings' technical staff way to the crash site to assist with the investigation.
article_snippet: About 150 firefighters and high mountain police were deployed to the scene, but officials have warned it could take days to retrieve any bodies.
article_snippet: Grieving families, including those of the 16 schoolchildren killed in the crash, have been gathering at Dusseldorf airport in Germany, where the jet was due to land, to await news of the rescue and recovery operation.