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Germanwings planes are seen at the airport in Duesseldorf, western Germany on March 24, 2015, where the crashed Germanwings airplane was due to land. (Sascha Schuermann, AFP)

Paris - The air disaster in the French Alps cannot be explained by the age of the Germanwings Airbus A320, which at 24-years-old should still have been in excellent condition, experts said on Tuesday.

Modern civilian aircraft are reaching the end of their career at a quarter-century, but should remain in perfect working order due to strict and regular maintenance checks.

The Airbus A320 that mysteriously crashed on Tuesday, killing 150 people, first entered service in 1991, according to Germanwings head Thomas Winkelmann.

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