Live: No survivors after Germanwings flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf crashes in French Alps

Rescue teams will be back at the scene of the crash as day breaks. Thanks for following the day's developments with us. Good night

Five officers spend the night at the site of the crash. The rescue operation will start again first hour

Catalan police has been taking DNA samples from relatives to help identify bodies #GermanWingsCrash

Helicopters will resume the rescue operation when day breaks. Mountains make it impossible to reach the area by road

Liceu, Barcelona Opera House, "deeply mourns the death of Oleg Bryjak and Maria Radner" in #GermanWingsCrash

A French official at the scene: "For what we have seen, we would need a miracle for someone to have survived the crash"

The black box recovered from the site is the one which records the conversations of the captain

They’re completely distraught": Marti Pujol i Casals, mayor of Llinars del Vallés, explaining the feelings of students in the small town near Barcelona, where the German students killed in the crash had spent a week. Catalan students had been in Germany earlier this year, in the first part of a program of exchange between the two high schools

Military personnel are camping in the area of the crash and will be there overnight to secure the site. #germanwings

All of #germanwings flights leaving Barcelona's airport are delayed. The flight to Düsseldorf, due to leave at 19:30pm, has been delayed until 21:50pm

The investigation and rescue operation #germanwings has been cancelled until tomorrow

The families of those dead are leaving Barcelona's airport, escorted by Catalan police and volunteers

German media is reporting that a number of Germanwings flights around the country have been cancelled because crew members are refusing to board the planes

Rescue members have been able to recover the aircraft's black box, which should help to explain the plane's sudden descent, dropping in just eight minutes from its cruising altitude of 38,000ft to 6,000ft

Both the French authorities and the company are treating the crash as an accident. The concentration of the debris in a small area is consistent with a controlled descent, rather than an explosion. Although all lines of enquiry are open, there is no suggestion that this was a terrorist act

Debris from the crash is in a relatively small area, but access is very difficult. The biggest part of debris found is the size of a car

Germanwings and Lufthansa are unable to explain why the aircraft made a sudden descent, before it finally crashed. There are conflicting reports on whether a distress cal was made or not. This means that there is no clue as to what went wrong

The remote location of the site of the crash and the weather conditions, which are deteriorating, present a challenge for the 600 members of the rescue team. No bodies have been recovered so far and there will be no further briefings on the rescue operation until tomorrow

144 of the 150 people on board were passengers, with the remaining 6 being crew members. 67 German nationals and 45 Spanish and Catalans are thought to be in the list of passengers, which has not been made public yet. 16 young students and 2 teachers from a school in Germany are amongst those killed. 2 young babies are reported to have travelled in the aircraft

#Germanwings crash, the first accident ever to take place in a flight from Barcelona's airport