A source has revealed that an unknown number of children were forced to leave the airport after forgetting their travel document
A number of schoolchildren may have missed boarding the tragic Germanwings flightafter forgetting their passports, it has been revealed.
Parents of youngsters involved in the crash have been left in an agonising wait for news after a source at the school in Haltern am See, Germany, claimed that an unknown number of children were forced to return to their hotel after leaving their passports behind.
A total of 16 children aged 15 and 16 are thought to have died in the horror crash this morning but it has not been revealed if any children did in fact miss the flight.
The teenagers had just finished an exchange programme at a state school in the Catalan village of Llinars del Valles.
They had spent nine days in Llinars del Valles, staying with students and staff at the village’s Giola Institute.Parents and teacher associations are waiting for an official announcement.
News of the possible lucky escape came after it was revealed that two Spanish babies were thought to have died on the flight.
Spanish vice president Soraya Saez de Sanataria revealed the shocking news in a statement where she told how 45 people with Spanish surnames were travelling on the Airbus A320.
The Airbus A320 was reportedly flying from Barcelona to the German city of Dusseldorf when it came down in the Digne region of southern France.
The plane crashed on the massive Three Bishoprics in the Upper Bléone Valley.
The plane was carrying 144 passengers and six crew members when it crashed this morning.