On 24th March 2015, flight 9525, an Airbus A320-211, crashed 100 kilometres (62 miles) north-west of Nice in the French Alps. All 144 passengers and 6 crew members of 17 different nationalities were killed. Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight that had departed from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain and was on route to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany.
