Germanwings Crash Site Update: Tweets, Map, Pictures Showing French Alps, Wreckage, Victims, Vigils [PHOTOS]

As workers continue to comb through wreckage of the Germanwings plane that crashed Tuesday in a remote region of the French Alps, investigators are trying to piece together what exactly happened following the discovery that one of the pilots appeared to have deliberately crashed the plane. A voice recording from one of two so-called black boxes indicated that Andreas Lubitz, one of the pilots, appeared to have locked the captain out of the cockpit after he left, perhaps to use the bathroom.
The names of some of the 150 victims have been released, as have the nationalities of most, yet two days after the crash, a clear picture of who died and where they were from has yet to emerge. Body parts also have yet to be recovered, and the full process could take at least two weeks. Photos of the crash site and search efforts, the victims, vigils in memory of them, and more can be found below.
French military personnel make their way up a mountain towards the site of the crash, near Seyne-les-Alpes in southern France.
Audio evidence in Germanwings crash suggest "deliberate attempt to destroy the aircraft" http://t.co/1XJZ70f0lE pic.twitter.com/JHrvczNMY1
- The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 26, 2015
A search and rescue worker at the crash site on Wednesday:
Morning Briefing: What you need to know for Thursday http://t.co/bp5r1EKRkN via @nytnow pic.twitter.com/GrjzPDihhy
- The New York Times (@nytimes) March 26, 2015
Debris from the Germanwings Airbus A320 suggests the plane came apart on impact, not in the air.
Pilot suicides are uncommon, but there have been several in the past 30 years http://t.co/KPDycrDNWv pic.twitter.com/xGZrOSh6bb
- Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 26, 2015
On Wednesday, the day after the crash, French emergency services resumed work near the crash site:
Morning Briefing: What you need to know for Wednesday. http://t.co/CvA8F0JHlw via @nytnow pic.twitter.com/2WRzTHh5Z7
- The New York Times (@nytimes) March 25, 2015
U.S. government contractor and her daughter said to be among victims of #Germanwings crash http://t.co/3ni9C81XqF pic.twitter.com/wFkGSuZQvT
- Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 25, 2015
The plane was en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany.
Helpless air-traffic controllers watched Germanwings’ fatal dive http://t.co/ZvCULKBlb1 pic.twitter.com/pitccqifJB
- Bloomberg Business (@business) March 26, 2015
A topographical view of the crash site and search area:
Where the Germanwings plane crashed http://t.co/K3zdCo9uSX pic.twitter.com/skjsL0SVOt
- The New York Times (@nytimes) March 25, 2015
German police gathered outside what was thought to be the home of Andreas Lubitz, who is believed to have deliberately crashed the plane:
German police deployed to what's thought to be #Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's home http://t.co/l0G6n0Dnnd pic.twitter.com/IIByHpjvIG
- BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 26, 2015
The first black box provided key insight but not a full picture of what happened. The casing for the second box was reportedly found, but without the memory card containing important flight data.
The mangled black box from the #Germanwings crash is being cracked open. Live blog: http://t.co/B8NJfCMT6g pic.twitter.com/laIaS9sS7X
- Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 25, 2015
All 150 people on board the flight were killed. Below, students at the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in Haltern, Germany, which lost 16 students and two teachers in the crash, lit candles.

Victims Martyn Matthews (left), Marina Bandres (center) and Paul Andrew Bramley (right):
"Wonderful, caring, amazing people." Tributes paid to victims of the #Germanwings plane crash http://t.co/uBfT44rKKQ pic.twitter.com/ifHfBgzT4A
- Sky News (@SkyNews) March 26, 2015
Three Americans were among the victims, including Emily Selke, below, who died along with her mother, Yvonne:
Two Americans on Germanwings flight were mother and daughter. http://t.co/WgMT41YRnE pic.twitter.com/gu5OZZLiQp
- Mashable (@mashable) March 25, 2015
Victims' families were devastated.

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