A Swedish football team has told of how they narrowly escaped death after a last-minute decision against booking their players on Germanwings Flight 4U9525 . Four Lufthansa subsidiary flights left Barcelona around the same time this morning , Division 1 team Dalkurd FF , from Borlänge , central Sweden , had players on three of them . The team had initially planned to travel on Flight 4U9525 to Düsseldorf , but instead split the team over the three remaining flights from Barcelona , via Germany . Scroll down for video . Lucky escape : Swedish Division 1 team Dalkurd FF had initially planned to travel on Flight 4U9525 to Düsseldorf , but instead split the team over the three remaining flights from Barcelona this morning . When the Dalkurd FF delegation of 29 players and staff landed , they found out that the fourth flight had crashed , and the passengers next to them at check in a few hours earlier had died . All 144 passengers , including two babies and 16 teenagers from a German high school , and six crew members lost their lives when Germanwings Flight 4U9525 crashed this morning . The Airbus A320 ploughed into the mountainside in a remote region of the French Alps en route from Spain to Germany at more than 400mph . 'We were supposed to have been on that flight . We checked in with all of the passengers . It 's surreal , ' Dalkurd FF 's sports chief Adil Kizil told Aftonbladet . 'When we got to the airport in Barcelona there were four flights leaving that time , flying north over the alps . All 144 passengers , including two babies and 16 teenagers from a German high school , and six crew members lost their lives when Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed near Seyne les Alpes , French Alps . Video from the scene of the crash shows debris of the Germanwings Airbus A320 at the crash site in the French Alps above the southeastern town of Seyne . Destroyed : Crews in the first helicopter to reach the site said they had seen no survivors and reported finding chunks of plane the size of a car . 'Four flights and we had players on three of them . Let 's just say we were very lucky . ' Dalkurd FF , formed in 2004 by Kurdish immigrants , play in Sweden 's Division 1 , the third level in the league system of Swedish football . The team had been on a week-long training camp in Barcelona and were flying home this morning , and were supposed to have been on Flight 9525 . Mr Kizil told the newspaper how they had tried to fit the entire team on the Germanwings flight , but that the connection time in Düsseldorf to continue their journey home to Sweden was too long . Instead they split the team onto the three other flights , with one group flying via München and two others via Zürich . Mr Kizil said the players are still shocked , and that their thoughts are with the families of the victims . 'All the people on that plane were at the same check-in as us . We also flew with a subsidiary to Lufthansa , so everyone went to the same gates . ' Others have today spoken of narrowly escaping death after missing Flight 4U 9525 . The Airbus A320 ploughed into the mountainside in a remote region of the French Alps en route from Spain to Germany at more than 400mph . One woman , whose husband has been named by Spanish media as one of the 150 victims , was refused boarding as she was deemed 'too pregnant ' to fly . News website La Voz de Galicia claims Marta Carceller had to stay behind in Barcelona while her husband Josep Sabat Casellas boarded the Germanwings flight , The Mirror reports . A man named Manuel Blasco also spoken of his lucky escape , as he was convinced by his wife not to change his flights last minute . Mr Blasco had intended to swap a Monday flight for the ill-fated Airbus A320 today after waking up with a cold . He told Spanish newspaper El Mundo : ' I woke up with a cold and a bit of a temperature . ' I was going to change the flight and fly today with the plane that crashed . 'My wife made me change my mind . I still asked at the Lufthansa desk when I got to Barcelona airport if I could change the flight but they said the plane that ended up crashing was very full and I 'd have to pay a lot of money to reserve a seat . 'As I saw it was going to cost quite a lot , I ended up sticking to my original plan and going on Monday . '
Dalkurd FF from Sweden were supposed to have travelled on Flight 9525 . Connection time in Dusseldorf was too long , so the team split up . Four Lufthansa flights left around same time , Dalkurd were on three . The fourth flight crashed into the Alps , killing all 150 on board . Team has spoken of shock as they 'checked in next to the victims ' Spanish woman whose husband died on flight was 'too pregnant ' to fly .