Germanwings crash: People in a state of grief

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, French President Francois Hollande, centre, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pay respect to victims in front of the mountain where a Germanwings jetliner crashed in Le Vernet, France, French Alps. French investigators cracked open the badly damaged cockpit voice recorder black box of the German jetliner and sealed off the rugged Alpine crash site where 150 people died when their plane on a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf slammed into a mountain.

French President Francois Hollande, left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks with rescue workers in Seyne-les-Alpes, France after a Germanwings jetliner crashed in the French Alps. 

People hold a minute of silence in the pedestrian street in Haltern, Germany.

Sixteen school children and two teachers from Haltern died in the Germanwings jet airliner crash in the French Alps from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.

Social workers and relatives of the victims of the Germanwings plane crash arrive at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany to depart on a special flight, offered by Lufthansa airline, to Marseille, southern France. They are planning to visit the crash site in the French Alps near Seyne-les-Alpes. 