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Police guard the Germanwings counter at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, after a Germanwings passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.(Photo: AP)Germanwings had to cancel seven flights out of Dusseldorf because a number of crew members felt they were unfit to fly following news of the accident.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said on Tuesday evening that he understood the crew members' sentiments.
"One must not forget: many of our Germanwings crews have known crew members who were onboard the crashed plane," Spohr said.
"It is now more important to ensure psychological assistance if needed. And we will get back to a full flight operation as soon as possible then. But for me, this is rather secondary now," he added
Hundreds of students, parents and townspeople from a small Spanish town have gathered at a weekly mass to mourn a group of German exchange students who died in the plane crash over the French Alps after visiting the town.
The mass at a local church turned into an unofficial outpouring of grief for the students and their two teachers who were among the 150 people who died in the crash Tuesday.
Andrea Perez Martinez, 20, who had participated in the exchange with the German school in Haltern four years ago came to mourn the loss of one of the two teachers, whom she identified as Claudia.
"This really hurts because the teacher, one of the two that died, was with us on the trips we took and everything when we went there," Perez Martinez said.
The Spanish school that hosted the German students, Institut Giola, said in a statement: "We extend our condolences to the victims of this tragic accident as well as the educational community of the Joseph-Konig-Gymnasium" in Germany.
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