{"id":55797,"date":"2015-03-25T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0f63d43600960ce2372266e4222f03dc"},"modified":"2015-03-25T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:41:23","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretarys-comments-to-the-media-about-germanwings-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55797","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary\u2019s comments to the media about Germanwings flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We currently believe that three British people have been killed in this tragedy, but we can\u2019t rule out the possibility that there are further British people involved.  The level of information on the flight manifest doesn\u2019t allow us to rule out that possibility until we\u2019ve completed some further checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are in contact with the families of those known to have been killed, we\u2019re also in contact with the French, German and Spanish authorities and once we have a clearer picture we\u2019ll make a further announcement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Question \u2013 Is there any thought in gov about checking safety of Airbus A320?<\/p>\n<p>Answer \u2013 \u201cIt is a very widely used aircraft, of course it has a very good safety record and the normal aviation safety authorities will be looking at the facts of this case and they and the Department for Transport will take any action necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Secretary on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHammondMP\">@PHammondMP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Secretary spoke to the media this morning about British nationals involved in the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}