Search and recovery efforts on Wednesday 25 March in the French Alps, after a Germanwings plane crashed a day earlier with 150 people on board
Airbus 320 Flight 4U 9525 was travelling between Barcelona and Duesseldorf
The aircraft's black box voice recorder has been recovered and contains a 'usable audio file'
The casing of the second box - the flight data recorder - has been found, but not its contents
Memorial services being held as mourning for the victims begins
Among the dead are believed to be 72 German nationals and at least 51 Spaniards
Citizens of the UK, Australia, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Denmark, the Netherlands, the USA and Belgium were also on board
French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy have visited the crash site
The Spanish government has raised the number of known Spanish victims in the crash from 49 to at least 51. Minister Francisco Martinez said earlier in the day that the 49 figure was provisional. The chief executive of Germanwings had said there were 35 Spaniards on board but that the nationalities of all of the passengers was not yet known.
President Hollande says his country is standing "shoulder to shoulder" with all of the nations affected.
Hollande: Everything will be done to find, identify and hand back to the families the bodies of their loved ones.
French President Francois Hollande, speaking at a press conference in Seyne-les-Alpes, describes the crash as "a terrible catastrophe".
A search and rescue worker is seen at the crash site in this picture as work continues to recover bodies and wreckage from the scene.
Image source, EPA
Image source, Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesRoads in the area around the crash site have been closed.
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The US State Department has confirmed the death of two US citizens who were on flight 4U 9525. In a tweet, external it said it was reviewing whether any other US passengers were on board.
"We are in contact with family members and extend our deepest condolences to families," it added.
The plane's second flight recorder has been found but is badly damaged, according to the New York Times, external. It spoke to a senior French official who said that workers on the scene had found the casing of the data recorder, but the memory chip inside had been dislodged and was missing.
It also reports investigators have so far been unable to retrieve any information from the cockpit voice recorder - recovered by a helicopter team on Tuesday.
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BBC's Anna Holligan tweets, external: German FM: 'No-one understands better than #Netherlands how much grief we feel' #MH17 v @GermanyDiplo #Germanwings
Image source, APPodiums for Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande and Mariano Rajoy set up in Seyne-les-Alpes ahead of an expected press conference from the three leaders
The Airbus A320 flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf was carrying 144 passengers and six crew when it went down in the French Alps. The list of victims is constantly being updated, but we do know where most of them came from.
72 were from Germany
51 were Spanish
Three Britons were on the flight
There were three people from Argentina on board
Two victims each were from Australia, Iran and Venezuela
The Netherlands, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, Denmark, Belgium and Israel all had one citizen on board
The names of several of the passengers have also been released. BBC News takes a look at who some of the victims were.
Le Figaro reports (in French), external that the first family members of victims have arrived in Digne-les-Bains, near to the crash site.
Image source, AFPThe crash has brought the world's media to this corner of the French Alps.
BBC correspondent Anna Holligan
People have been signing a book of condolence at Duesseldorf airport.
@realmadriden tweets, external: Minute of silence to honour the victims in today's training session #RealMadrid
Image source, Elysee PalaceThe Elysee Palace has released this photo of French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with NRW Premier Hannelore Kraft, examining a map of the area on board an aircraft.
Argentine newspaper La Nacion, external (in Spanish) has named one of the victims as 51-year-old businessman Juan Armando Pomo. He had worked in Paraguay for the past 20 years and was in Barcelona on business together with a Venezuelan colleague, the paper says.
Yesterday, the Argentine consulate in France confirmed the identities of the other two Argentinean victims, according to the same paper.
Sebastián Gabriel Greco and Gabriela Luján Maumus, both 28, were a couple. Miss Maumus was the bass guitarist for a rock group called Asalto al Parque Zoológico. A colleague told the paper, external that she was in Europe on "a personal journey with her partner".
tweets, external: "Two special flights for families and friends of the victims will fly to France tomorrow." - Carsten Spohr
Rescue workers can be seen walking through debris on mountain slopes of the French Alps as a helicopter flies overhead.
Image source, EPALufthansa's vice president is attending a meeting with some of the relatives of the crash victims. The airline says its priority is to facilitate the families and make sure that a team of psychologists is looking after them.