Lufthansa says Germanwings crash was 'accident' Lufthansa is working on the assumption that Tuesday's crash of an Airbus operated by its budget carrier Germanwings was an accident, a senior airline official said. "For the time being, we say it's an accident, anything else would be speculation," Lufthansa vice president for sales and services in Europe, Heike Birlenbach, told reporters at Barcelona airport from where the plane took off. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES