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Forbidding and slowing things up. now the 150 people were on that doomed flight they came from nearly 20 countries there were a group of german school kids on board, as well as dozens of victims believed to have come from spain. so lets get to cnns carl penhall live outside barcelona, thats where 9525 originated. carl? >> yeah absolutely chris. were at a village here just north of barcelona, this is where 16 german secondary schoolkids had spent the last week in a language and cultural exchang...

Nationals. still no official count from officials in spain. mourning with those families are the residents of the small spanish town where the german students attended that exchange program. hundreds gathered at a mass to remember their new german friends. cnns karl penhaul is there with the latest. good morning, karl. >> reporter: good morning, christine. and as we heard rosie explaining there had been a school exchange program. 16 german students had been here in this town. they had been here ...

School. flowers and candles were there in honor of the students and teachers on the plane, coming home from an exchange program in spain. katy tur has the story from germany. >> reporter: perhaps nowhere was harder hit than this school here just 45 minutes to the north of dusseldorf germany where 18 people lost their lives, 16 students and 2 teachers just in barcelona for a week long exchange program to learn spanish, learn a little about the culture. they were on their way home now their friend...

The plane took off from barcelona at 10:00 a.m. local time about 27 minutes after takeoff, the plane reached the altitude of 38,000 feet. five minutes later the plane started to descend about 4,000 feet per minute until it crashed into the mountainside. on board were six crew members and 144 passengers including two infants, 16 german 10th graders who had spent last week in spain for an exchange program. so far u.s. government officials say there is no indication that this crash is an act of ter...

Germanwings, the airline, says at least 67 germans. we have seen arriving at a crisis center set up for family members here, spanish relatives arriving of presumably the spanish passengers on board. we also understand there may be a number of turkish passengers on board. but among the german passengers, weve heard over the last few moments from the city hall in halten, north of the destination of duflsseldorf, that 16 high school students were booked on this flight with their teacher. they had b...

Of an exchange program with a spanish school outside of barcelona. the spanish students had already visited the german school previously and now the german students were on their return trip to their spanish colleagues. >> presumably family members as well as fellow students classmates and teachers are all gathering there. unimaginable sadness there. theres no confirmation yet that they were booked on the flight but no confirmation they were actually passengers although certainly family members ...

Know what happened but for them not to communicate verbally would suggest they were unable to for some reason. i find this just really a strange mystery. i would also make this point, and this is heart breaking. several german media are reporting a school class was on an exchange program and was on board that plane. german school children who were apparently returning from spain according to several german media reports this morning. >> what a tragedy. just gets worse and worse. tom costello. th...

It a rest. >> i dont know, can you take a long vacation too another planet? maybe thats like the sooner hes out of the public area, the better. because he really has just served tkpaser bate this situation, to really increase racial tensions hes a disservice to the civil rights movement. >> is de blasio sharptons race puppet? >> well, everybody easterified of sharpton, because he can call you a racist he can pick at you. i have an idea there should be an exchange program. have reverend al ride w...

It a rest. >> i dont know, can you take a long vacation too another planet? maybe thats like the sooner hes out of the public area, the better. because he really has just served to kpaser bate this situation, to really increase racial tensions hes a disservice to the civil rights movement. >> is de blasio sharptons race puppet? >> well, everybody easterified of sharpton, because he can call you a racist he can pick at you. i have an idea there should be an exchange program. have reverend al ride...

Entity arrives at area 51 in 1989, the same year some believe a flying saucer is shot down over the kalahari desert in south africa. legend has it two aliens survive the crash. no word on what happens to ebe number one, but ebe two is allegedly flown to area 51 for questioning. >> he said that they were interviewing the alien a certain number of times a week for a certain number of hours. >> the alien, victor says, is interviewed telepathically. of course, the universal language of human meets e...