Search ends for remains of Germanwings plane crash

Just over a week after a Germanwings plane crashed into the French Alps, investigators have finished retrieving human remains from the wreckage.

They must now try to match them with DNA profiles from the 150 people killed — an arduous task which could leave families waiting for months.

The extraordinary recovery process mobilised hundreds of people and cut a stony road into a forested Alpine mountainside to help the team bring back anything they found, from a body part to a tiny shred of skin. Not a single intact body was found.