French investigators have ended their search for bodies in the French Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all 150 people on board, a local official has said.
Prosecutors believe German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the Airbus A320 jet into the mountainside during a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf on March 24, pulverising the aircraft and making recovery efforts extremely complicated.
“The search for bodies is over, but the search for the victims’ personal belongings is continuing,” a spokesman for the local government authority in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region told the Reuters news agency on Saturday.
“Lufthansa has also hired a specialist firm to remove the debris of the aircraft, under the authority of the French public prosecutor and an expert in charge of environmental supervision of the operations,” he said.
Lufthansa is the parent company of the low-cost Germanwings carrier.
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