The family of a seven-year-old boy who fell 50m to his death on a skiing holiday in the French Alps have spoken of their “utter devastation”.

A video of the last moments on the doomed Germanwings plane has been found on a mobile phone memory card at the crash site in the French Alps, according to reports.

A member of a gliding club in the French Alps, where a Germanwings plane crashed this week, has said the co-pilot of the plane frequented the area as a child with his parents.

Lufthansa is offering immediate aid of up to €50,000 (£36,500) per passenger to relatives of the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people.

Airlines are changing procedures to ensure two crew members are in the cockpit at all times during flights following the French Alps plane disaster.

French authorities have tonight called off searching the Alps where a passenger plane crashed with 150 people on board, including 16 schoolchildren, two babies, and two teachers.

The black box has been recovered from the site of today's plane crash in the French Alps, a French interior ministry official has confirmed.

Airline Germanwings has said that there were 144 passengers and six crew on board the Airbus A320 which crashed in a remote area of the French Alps today.