Lufthansa says working on assumption Germanwings crash was 'accident'

BARCELONA: Lufthansa is working on the assumption that the crash on Tuesday of an Airbus operated by its budget carrier Germanwings was an accident, the airline's vice president said.

"For the time being, we say it's an accident, anything else would be speculation," Lufthansa vice president Heike Birlenbach told reporters at Barcelona's El Prat airport from where the plane took off.