Germanwings Flight 9525 Black Box: What Has Been Revealed So Far

The black box from Germanwings flight A320 has been found after the flight crashed Tuesday into the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, Germany, according to reports.

The Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed Tuesday morning without issuing any distress signals, while en route from Barcelona, Spain to the German city of Dusseldorf.

"A black box that we found a few hours after the crash will immediately be examined to help the investigation move forward quickly," he said, Reuters reported.

He said the crash site would be secured this evening to ensure emergency services could more easily enter the area.

The Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in a remote area of the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren.

The cause of the crash is not known and the plane sent no distress signal during an eight-minute descent.

Germanwings is a low-cost airline owned by Germany's main carrier Lufthansa. The company has an excellent safety record.

The airline confirmed that the aircraft which crashed into the Alps had been grounded for an hour on Monday for repairs to the nose-wheel landing doors, but insisted the issue was not "safety-related".

"The repair was purely to fix a noise that the door was making, and the aircraft was flying again from 10am on Monday," a spokesperson for the airline said.

Further disruption is expected today after Germanwings flights from Dusseldorf to several destinations were cancelled.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting the site on Wednesday where accident took place.