Germanwings crash: Investigators isolate DNA of 78 victims

ANI | Updated: Mar 30, 2015, 08:23 PM IST

French emergency services workers (back) and members of the French gendarmerie gather in Seyne, south-eastern France, on March 24, 2015, near the site where a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps. A German airliner crashed near a ski resort in the French Alps on March 24, killing all 150 people on board, in the worst plane disaster in mainland France in four decades.

Days after Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed in a remote area of the French Alps, killing all 150 people onboard, investigators have said that they have isolated the DNA of at least 78 victims.

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However, they rejected reports that claimed that the body parts of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been identified, reported the BBC.

An analysis of the data retrieved from the cockpit had revealed that Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane.

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