Investigators are examining the black box of the doomed Germanwings passenger plane in a bid to find out what caused the aircraft to plunge into a mountainside killing all 150 people on board.
The search and recovery operation has resumed in tough terrain in the French Alps, but overnight rain and snow at the crash site has made the rocky ravine slippery, increasing the difficulty of reaching the area.
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said it was "likely that there were some British nationals" on the Airbus A320.
Images of the area show the plane had completely disintegrated, with the fuselage smashed into small pieces, the largest of which is about the size of a small car.
The plane was en route from Barcelona in Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany, when it came down on Tuesday morning less than an hour into its flight at Meolans-Revels, between Barcelonnette and Digne.
None of the 144 passengers and six crew survived the crash.
Among those on board were 16 children and two teachers from the same school in Haltern Am See in Germany were on the plane, returning home after an exchange visit.
The mayor of a town close to the site of the plane crash has said the families of those killed are expected to begin arriving in the town on Wednesday morning.
Officials said flight 4U 9525, which took off at 10.01am (9.01am UK time), had started descending one minute after reaching its cruising height.
It then plummeted from 38,000ft to 6,800ft in eight minutes before crashing - dropping about 4,000ft a minute.
French aviation authorities said the plane did not issue a distress call and had lost radio contact with air traffic controllers at 10.53am.
Germanwings said the plane had a normal service at Dusseldorf on Monday and its last major check-up was in the summer of 2013. Experts have said the A320 has a relatively good safety record.
However, some Lufthansa crews are refusing to fly "for personal reasons" which has led to a number of flights being cancelled, the airline admitted.
German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was flown over the site and called it "a picture of horror".
There were believed to be 67 people from Germany on the aircraft, including the school children and German opera singers Oleg Bryjak and Maria Radner.
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Gallery: Alps Crash: School Mourns 16 Pupils
Mourners gathered outside Joseph-Koenig in the German town of Haltern after news 16 children and two teachers from the school died in the French Alps plane crash.
School Principal Ulrich Wessel grieves with students in front of the secondary school.
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