article_snippet: At 10.27am, the airliner reaches the airliner cruising altitude of 38,000ft.
article_snippet: The jet is still 7,000ft above the ground.
article_snippet: At 10.38am, with its engines racing, the aircraft is on a north-east course over the French Alps.
article_snippet: At 10.40am the aircraft hits the mountainside with the aircraft right wing.
article_snippet: the plane hit the mountain at 700kmh (430mph). '
article_snippet: : Reaches cruising altitude of 38,000ft.
article_snippet: : Jet hits the mountainside with its right wingJet .