This is the haunting last picture of a 'kind and caring ' Iranian sports journalist , taken in the window of his Barcelona hotel hours before he boarded the doomed Germanwings flight . Hussein Javadi took the picture in the window of Hotel Hespiria before he departed for the airport on Tuesday morning , sharing it on his private Instagram account . He had been in the Spanish city to cover 'El Clasico ' , a football match between Barcelona and Real Madrid - his favourite team , according to his profile on the picture sharing site . Scroll down for video . Hussein Javadi took the picture in the window of his Barcelona hotel hours before he boarded the flight . Mr Javadi was killed along with 150 other people when the plane crashed into the Alps . Rescue workers sift through the wreckage of Germanwings Airbus A320 which was deliberately flown into the French Alps . Mr Javadi , along with fellow Iranian sports journalist Milad Hojatoleslami , were travelling to Austria , where they were due to cover a match between Iran and Chile . But they never reached their destination , as the plane was plunged into the Alps by German pilot Andreas Günter Lubitz , killing all 150 people on board the flight to Dussedorf . Mr Javadi 's long-time friend Maysam Bizær - who shared the picture on his Twitter account after learning of the tragedy - told the Evening Standard : 'He was a kind , loving and caring man with high passion for his work and football . ' The heartbreaking picture of Mr Javadi , who worked for Vatan Emrooz newspaper , is just one of the traces left behind of the passengers ' final hours . Many of the 16 German schoolchildren , who had been in Barcelona on an exchange , messaged friends and family as they boarded the plane . Among them were 16-year-old Elena Bless , who friends described as a ‘ happy girl ’ who dreamed of going to university and travelling the world . Germanwings co-pilot - 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz ( above ) - deliberately crashed into a mountain to 'destroy the plane ' , it has been revealed . These are some of the German pupils who died on the Germanwings flight , which crashed in the Alps , killing all 150 passengers . The teenagers had been on a week-long exchange trip to Barcelona and were flying home . ‘ She had been sending me messages on WhatsApp and Snap Chat and had been very happy about the trip . She had had a good time. ’ Elena ’ s best friend and classmate Philippa said . ‘ She sent me pictures of the group together and the different sights they saw . They looked like they had had fun. ’ Investigators have since revealed how the 28-year-old pilot locked his captain out of the cockpit in the moments before the aircraft was downed . The chilling final moments of the doomed jet were revealed by French prosecutors who said Lubitz 's sole aim was to 'destroy the plane ' . 'We hear the pilot asking the co-pilot to take over and we hear the sound of a chair being pushed back and a door closing so we assume that the captain went to the toilet or something . 'So the co-pilot is on his own , and it is while he 's on his own that the co-pilot is in charge of the plane and uses the flight management system to start the descent of the plane . 'At this altitude , this can only be done voluntarily . We hear several shouts from the captain asking to get in , speaking through the intercom system , but there 's no answer from the cockpit . 'His ( Lubitz 's ) breath was not of somebody who was struggling . He never said a single word . It was total silence in the cockpit for the ten past minutes . Nothing . 'There are alarm systems which indicate to all those on board the proximity of the ground . Then we hear noises of someone trying to break into the door . 'The door is reinforced according to international standards . 'Just before final impact we hear the sound of a first impact . It 's believed that the plane may have hit something before the final impact . 'There is no distress signal or Mayday signal . No answer was received despite numerous calls from the tower . ' I do n't think that the passengers realised what was happening until the last moments because on the recording you only hear the screams in the final seconds . 'The intention was to destroy the plane . Death was instant . The plane hit the mountain at 700kmh ( 430mph ) . 'He did this for a reason which we do n't know why , but we can only deduct that he destroyed this plane . 'We have asked for information from the German investigation on both his profession and personal background . 'There is no reason to suspect a terrorist attack . 'People who commit suicide usually do so alone ... I do n't call it a suicide . '
Hussein Javadi took the picture in the window of his Iran hotel . Hours later , he boarded Germanwings flight which crashed into the Alps . Among 150 who died when pilot drove plane into the ground on purpose .