Angela Merkel on GermanWings Crash: ‘This Suffering Is Incredible’

MERKEL: "We don't know much about the flight and the crash yet. And we don't know the cause. Today I'm concerned with the depth of suffering that is being brought to so many people. My thoughts are with those people who have lost somebody. There are many Germans among them. This suffering is incredible of the families. We will do everything to get the help that they need in these difficult hours. 

In the last hours, I have talked to the French president, Hollande, as well as with the Spanish prime minister. We have discussed and agreed that our countries have to help each other in any form and we -- with the forces at the site and at the airports. The foreign ministry has introduced a crisis center, which is coordinating everything. The Foreign Minister Steinmeier and the transport minister will go to the region this afternoon. I will go there tomorrow to make -- to draw my own picture so that I know what I'm talking about. 

Let me say finally that the hour that we all mourn, we have to think of the victims and their families and their friends. Thank you."