First pictures of victims of Flight 4U 9525 emerge as search planes find jet's remains scattered over Alpine mountainside: Riddle over why pilots didn't send SOS despite falling 32,000ft in eight minutes
Two leading opera singers, Maria Radner (right, main) and Oleg Bryjak (right, inset), have been named as two of the 150 people - including two babies and 16 German schoolchildren - who lost their lives when Germanwings flight 4u 9525 crashed in a remote regions of the French Alps today. Shocking pictures of the obliterated aircraft (main picture) emerged as confusion reigned over the final minutes of the doomed Airbus A320 (inset, top left) after air traffic controllers claimed they received no SOS despite the jet nosediving 32,000ft in just eight minutes. Earlier reports quoted aviation sources in France as saying the pilots issued a Mayday distress signal and requested an emergency descent minutes before it hit the ground. However, civil aviation authorities later said air traffic controllers did not receive an emergency call from the crew. Devastated families today gathered at Dusseldorf Airport (top right) to await news, while emergency crews gathered near Seyne-les-Alpes in the French Alps to move into the area.