Two Japanese aboard crashed German flight

The Japanese Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday that there were two Japanese aboard the Germanwings flight that crashed the previous day, local media reported.

The two male passengers named Nagata and Sato were in their 60s and 40s. They both lived in Duesseldorf, German, Japan's Kyodo News Agency cited messages from the Foreign Ministry as saying.

The Airbus A320 carrying 150 people was traveling from the Spanish coastal city of Barcelona to Duesseldorf when it went down in southeastern France. There were "no survivors" from the crash, said France.

Sources close to the Japanese government said there were no Japanese citizens on board at first. But later the Japanese Consulate in Duesseldolf revealed that there were two names on the passenger list that appear to be Japanese.

According to French officials, one black box of the plane has been recovered and sent to the French air accident investigation authority for "immediate examination."