Germanwings Crash: ‘Our worst nightmare’

The Germanwings airline said it is stunned and “utterly baffled” as to why one of its pilots deliberately crashed a plane into the Alps killing himself and 149 other people.

“We thought last Tuesday was the darkest day in the history of our company,” the airline said in a statement last night. “But today, Thursday, has been no less devastating. We were stunned to learn today that the airplane we lost in southern France was to all appearances made to crash by deliberate act — presumably by the co-pilot. Before early Thursday morning we could not have conceived of such a possibility even in our worst nightmares.

“We, together with the bereaved families and friends of the victims and many millions of other people, are shocked, grief-stricken, and utterly baffled by what has happened.”