Photos: Germanwings plane crashes over the Alps

A mother and daughter from Prince William County are among the 150 who died in a plane crash in the French Alps. On Thursday morning, people are leaving condolences at their mailbox. (WTOP/Kristi King)
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Condolences are left at the mailbox of the Selkes in Prince William County, Virginia. (WTOP/Kristi King)
LA SEYGNE LES ALPES, FRANCE- MARCH 24:  French mountain rescue teams and gendarmerie arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 24, 2015 in La Seygne les Alpes, France.  A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)
LA SEYGNE LES ALPES, FRANCE- MARCH 24: French mountain rescue teams and gendarmerie arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 24, 2015 in La Seygne les Alpes, France. A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)
DIGNE, FRANCE- MARCH 24:  French mountain rescue teams and gendarmerie arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps on March 24, 2015 in Digne, France.  A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)
DIGNE, FRANCE- MARCH 24: French mountain rescue teams and gendarmerie arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps on March 24, 2015 in Digne, France. A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)
BARCELONA, SPAIN- MARCH 24:  Relatives of passangers of the Germanwings plane crashed in French Alps arrive at the Terminal 2 of the Barcelona El Prat airport on March 24, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in French Alps.  (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
BARCELONA, SPAIN- MARCH 24: Relatives of passangers of the Germanwings plane crashed in French Alps arrive at the Terminal 2 of the Barcelona El Prat airport on March 24, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in French Alps. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
People arrive at Barcelona airport in Spain, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed in the French Alps region Tuesday as it traveled from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Crying people arrive at Barcelona airport in Spain, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Map locates plane crash in the French Alps.
This photo provided by the Gendarmerie Nationale shows rescue workers being rappelled from an helicopter on the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. French investigators cracked open the badly damaged black box of the Germanwings plane on Wednesday and sealed off the rugged Alpine crash site where 150 people died when their plane on a flight from Barcelona, Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany, slammed into a mountain Tuesday. (AP Photo/Fabrice Balsamo, Gendarmerie Nationale)
In this image made from TV, debris is scattered over the area after a Germanwings Airbus 320 crashed in the French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed Tuesday in a snowy, remote section of the French Alps, sounding like an avalanche as it scattered pulverized debris across the mountain. FRANCE OUT TV OUT (AP Photo / BFMTV)
Debris of the Germanwings passenger jet is scattered on the mountain side near Seyne les Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed Tuesday in a snowy, remote section of the French Alps, sounding like an avalanche as it scattered pulverized debris across the mountain. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Education Minister of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia Sylvia Loehrmann, center, arrives with flowers in front of the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, one day after 16 school children and two teachers were among the 150 victims that died in the Germanwings plane crash in the French alps on the way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Debris of the crashed Germanwings passenger jet is scattered on the mountain side near Seyne les Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The Germanwings passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed Tuesday in a snowy, remote section of the French Alps, sounding like an avalanche as it scattered pulverized debris across the mountain. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Students hug each other as they arrive at the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 on the day after 16 school children and 2 teachers died in the Germanwings jet airliner crash in the French Alps from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Debris of the Germanwings passenger jet is scattered on the mountain side near Seyne les Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed Tuesday in a snowy, remote section of the French Alps, sounding like an avalanche as it scattered pulverized debris across the mountain. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Students mourn in front of their school in Haltern, western Germany, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, one day after 16 school children and two teachers were among the 150 victims that died in the Germanwings plane crash in the French alps on the way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
This photo provided by Xela Batchelder, shows Emily Selke as she enjoys a treat outside Fisher & Donaldson Bakery in St. Andrews, Scotland, on Aug. 1, 2013, on a excursion that was part of a study abroad with Drexel University and Fringe University. Selke, a recent Drexel University graduate and her mother, Yvonne Selke, were among the three Americans presumed dead in the plane crash in the southern French Alps, according to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Xela Batchelder)
This photo provided by the Gendarmerie Nationale shows a general view of the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. French investigators cracked open the badly damaged black box of the Germanwings plane on Wednesday and sealed off the rugged Alpine crash site where 150 people died when their plane on a flight from Barcelona, Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany, slammed into a mountain Tuesday. (AP Photo/Fabrice Balsamo, Gendarmerie Nationale)
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Rescue workers work on debris at the plane crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, after a Germanwings jetliner crashed Tuesday in the French Alps. French investigators cracked open the badly damaged black box of a German jetliner on Wednesday and sealed off the rugged Alpine crash site where 150 people died when their plane on a flight from Barcelona, Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany, slammed into a mountain. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
A Lufthansa employee signs in a condolence book in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, for the 150 victims that died in the Germanwings plane crash in the French alps on the way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Social workers and relatives of the victims of the Germanwings plane crash arrive at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday, March 26, 2015, 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. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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LA SEYGNE LES ALPES, FRANCE- MARCH 24:  French mountain rescue teams and gendarmerie arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 24, 2015 in La Seygne les Alpes, France.  A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)
DIGNE, FRANCE- MARCH 24:  French mountain rescue teams and gendarmerie arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps on March 24, 2015 in Digne, France.  A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)
BARCELONA, SPAIN- MARCH 24:  Relatives of passangers of the Germanwings plane crashed in French Alps arrive at the Terminal 2 of the Barcelona El Prat airport on March 24, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in French Alps.  (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
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