As it happened: Airbus A320 crash

BBC News website
24 March 2015
by Josephine McDermott, Thom Poole, Claire Brennan, Saira Asher and Caroline McClatchey

16:02 Weather conditions

Dr Paul Williams, atmospheric scientist at the University of Reading, says it is unlikely weather conditions will have played a part in the crash, based on the information currently available.

He said there was "some light clear air turbulence forecast" near the flight route but "nothing out of the ordinary... nothing that a modern airliner couldn't normally cope with".