The weather was reported fine this morning in the area but is now deteriorating quickly and there are a lot of low clouds. The ceiling is quite low now as we can see some video here. There is a ski resort not very far and the terrain is also very snowy. A lot of people have seen the aircraft flying very low and some also the sound of the impact. The region is of very hard access and it will take a lot of hours to reach the site. Some helicopters pilots reported that debris were disseminated on about 2sq km.
The King Felipe of Spain is in France today and has spoken some minutes ago at he Elysée Palace about this tragedy. He mentioned that there was also some Turkish citizens on board. About 45 Spanish were on board plus German citizens.
The distress signal at 1047 seemed to have been radioed at about 5500 feet.