Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has conveyed the country's condolences to the families and friends of all the victims of Germanwings flight 4U 9525, which crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday.
The plane crashed in the Alps in southern France on its way from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany. All 150 people on board, mainly from Germany and Spain, were killed.
President Zuma said the Department of International Relations and Cooperation had been informed that no South Africans were on board the aircraft.
“We also extend our sympathies to the government and the people of all other countries whose nationals perished in the crash,” he said in a statement on Wednesday evening.
French gendarmes have found one of the two black boxes of the aircraft. While it is damaged, officials say it is possible to reconstruct the elements to analyse it.
Germanwings is a low-cost airline owned by German flag carrier Lufthansa. -SAnews.gov.za
