The first images of the wreckage of Germanwings flight 4U9525 have been revealed as emergency search and rescue teams have finally located the crash site of the doomed plane.
The horrific crash has reduced the Airbus A320 to rubble, and the pieces are seen covering the hillside in the photograph.
A local man is understood to have told to have told the associated press that “everything is pulverised” and that the largest pieces of debris are the size of a small car.
In the images that have been posted online, tiny chunks of debris from the aircraft are strewn all over a small stretch of Alp mountainside, under a red and yellow helicopter similar to those previously seen scrambling from the base of rescue operations near Seyne-les-Alpes.
More than 500 firefighters and members of search and rescue teams are understood to be scouring the scene of the crash.
Pieces of debris from the aircraft were earlier reported to have been strewn across five acres of the mountainous region of the southern French Alps where the plane went down.
150 people were aboard the aircraft, including 45 Spaniards, 67 Germans, two babies and it is also reported that 16 schoolchildren were on board the aircraft.
The Greenwings flight, meant to be travelling from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany, rapidly descended more than 30,000 feet in less than ten minutes and crashed into the middle of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence mountains.
French President François Hollande earlier stated that nobody was expected to survive the catastrophic crash.