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Bodies of Spaniards killed in Germanwings crash come home

Employees load coffins of the victims of the Germanwings aircraft crash aboard a Lufthansa plane lands to transfer the remains of the victims of the Germanwings aircraft crash to Barcelona in Spain, at Marseille airport, southeastern France, Monday, June 15, 2015. After months of waiting, families of the 150 people killed when a Germanwings plane smashed into the French Alps in March will finally start burying their loved ones as the airline's parent company sending home victims' remains. Lufthansa prepared Monday to ferry coffins with remains of 30 victims by cargo plane from Marseille, France, to Barcelona, Spain, where Germanwings flight 9525 from Barcelona took off March 24. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) Employees load coffins of the victims of the Germanwings aircraft crash aboard a Lufthansa plane lands to transfer the remains of the victims of the Germanwings aircraft crash to Barcelona in Spain, at Marseille airport, southeastern France, Monday, June 15, 2015. After months of waiting, families of the 150 people killed when a Germanwings plane smashed into the French Alps in March will finally start burying their loved ones as the airline's parent company sending home victims' remains. Lufthansa prepared Monday to ferry coffins with remains of 30 victims by cargo plane from Marseille, France, to Barcelona, Spain, where Germanwings flight 9525 from Barcelona took off March 24. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

By Associated Press June 15, 2015 1 min read

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – About 30 coffins with remains of Spaniards killed in the Germanwings jet crash are being flown to Barcelona to be turned over to relatives.

The remains were heading home from Marseille, France, 12 weeks after the co-pilot slammed the plane into the French Alps on March 24, killing all 150 people on board.

Lufthansa spokesman Martin Riecken says relatives at the airport will see the coffins in a building “where they will have time to mourn in dignified surroundings.” Germanwings is owned by Lufthansa.

Riecken could not immediately provide a precise number of coffins being sent Monday.

Forty-seven victims on the Barcelona-Duesseldorf flight were Spaniards and four were dual citizens with a Spain passport. Seventy two Germans were killed, plus citizens of more than a dozen other countries.