Two Delphi employees among French plane crash victims

(Bloomberg News photo from video clip)
Recovery crews prepare to head for the scene of the plane crash in the French Alps.

From Crain News Service staff reports

FRANKFURT (March 25, 2015) — Two Delphi Automotive L.L.P. employees were among passengers on a German plane that crashed in a remote part of the French Alps March 24 killing all 150 people on board, the company said March 25.

Delphi confirmed in a statement that its human resources manager and a trade union delegate had boarded the flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf, Germany, to travel to a meeting.

“We confirm that two Delphi employees were on board the Germanwings flight 9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf,” the statement said.

“Rogelio Oficialdegui, our human resources director for Delphi in Spain and Delphi's diesel site in Sant Cugat (Barcelona) and Manuel Rives Salinas, employee representative at our site in Sant Cugat and member of the European Employee Committee, are among the victims,” the company said.

“Based at Sant Cugat, both were travelling to Germany for a meeting. Our deepest condolences go out to the victims and their families of this tragic accident.”

German chemicals giant Bayer A.G. also said it believed at least one employee of its Spanish affiliate was on the flight.

The majority of the crash victims are believed to be German tourists returning from vacation in Spain. A class of 16 German high school students and two teachers were also on board. They were returning from a study program near Barcelona.

Delphi's Germany headquarters is in Wuppertal, about 21 miles from Duesseldorf.

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This report appeared on the website of Automotive News, a Detroit-based sister publication of Tire Business.

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