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A screen grab taken from an AFP TV video shows part of the vertical stabilizer of the Germanwings Airbus A320 at the crash site in the French Alps.(Photo: Denis Bois, AFP/Getty Images)
Search and recovery operations resumed Wednesday after a German jetliner crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people aboard.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told RTL radio on Wednesday that the cockpit voice recorder, one of the planes's two black boxes that was recovered on Tuesday, was damaged but could still be used for information. The second black box has not been recovered.
Pierre-Henry Brandet, a spokesman for the ministry, told French network iTele that recovery crews are expected to reach the site Wednesday morning, the Associated Press reported.
Officials previously warned that due to the remoteness of the crash site and difficult weather conditions the operation could last for days. A full passenger list not been released, bu the majority of those killed were German and Spanish nationals.
Germanwings said an accident is the most likely cause of the crash and the White House issued a statement on Tuesday saying that no link to terrorism had been found.
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All on board the Germanwings Airbus A320 that included two infants, two opera singers and 16 German high school students were presumed dead, French officials said. It was the deadliest crash in France in decades.
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The crash so distressed Germanwings crews that many did not show up for work, forcing mass flight cancelations, the RT news organization reported.
"One must not forget: many of our Germanwings crews have known crew members who were on board the crashed plane," Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said in a written statement.
Lufthansa owns Germanwings, which was forced to cancel 30 flights across Europe, the Bild and RT news organizations reported.
First responders and police were let down from helicopter cables into the crash zone on Tuesday before the search was ended for the day by darkness. A group of them spent the night to secure the area.
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