One of the black box flight recorders from the Germanwings Airbus that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday has been recovered. The crash killed all 150 people on board. Full Story: Search teams confronted a scene of total devastation at the site where Lufthansa's Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. A debris field of metal and barely recognizable airplane parts was spread across the slopes of a mountainside and into a valley. Amid the wreckage, search teams did find a black box flight recorder. Officials hope that will provide answers as to why the plane began to descend shortly after reaching cruising speed, before crashing eight minutes later. Among the 144 passengers and six crew who died were 16 schoolchildren. French police say it will take days to recover the bodies...terrain, snow and incoming storms making the task especially difficult. Still, they say, the teams will remain on the mountain until the job is done. For... ( More) | 
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