A MAN who lost his wife and baby son in the Germanwings Airbus crash said today he was devastated.

Marina Bandres Lopez Belio, 37, originally from Spain but living in Manchester, died with her seven-month-old son Julian Pracz-Bandres when the jet crashed in the Alps yesterday.

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Her husband Pawel Pracz revealed that she had been visiting her family in Spain for her uncle's funeral and bought the tickets at the last moment.

He said in a statement released by the Foreign Office: "I'm with my closest family in Manchester, and in close contact with our family in Spain at this very difficult time. We are devastated and would like to request that we be allowed to grieve in peace as a family without intrusion at this difficult time."

At least three Britons died when the Airbus 320 crashed while en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. The cause is still being investigated.

Paul Andrew Bramley, 28, who was originally from Hull, and father-of-two Martyn Matthews, 50, from Wolverhampton, were among the 150 people on board.

The FO issued a statement on behalf of Mr Bramley's family.

It said: " Paul was originally from Hull. He was studying hospitality and hotel management at Ceasar Ritz College in Lucerne and about to start an internship on April 1.

"Paul had just finished his first year at the college and had taken a few days holiday with friends in Barcelona, before flying back to the UK via Dusseldorf to meet his family."

Mr Bramley's mother, Carol, lives in Majorca and is currently in the UK, having flown over to meet him.

She said: "Paul was a kind, caring and loving son. He was the best son, he was my world."

Mr Bramley's father, Philip, who lives in Hull, said they are both deeply shocked and will miss him.

Ms Bandres Lopez-Belio had been living in Manchester for seven years with Mr Pracz, both working in the film and video industry.

Mr Matthews had two grown-up children and worked in Tipton, near Dudley in the West Midlands, at the UK site of German automotive manufacturer Huf.

He is thought to have been travelling to Germany for a business meeting.

Neighbours of Mr Matthews said they were unaware that he was believed to have been on board the Germanwings flight.

Police standing outside Mr Matthews' home in the Old Hall Park area of Wolverhampton asked reporters not to knock at the door of his semi-detached home.

Four people later left the property without comment.

A spokeswoman at the Tipton site declined to issue any statement in tribute to Mr Matthews out of respect for his family.

Announcing that three Britons had died, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "W e cannot rule out the possibility that there are further British people involved.

"The level of information on the flight manifest doesn't allow us to rule out that possibility until we've completed some further checks."

In the Commons, Prime Minister David Cameron offered his "deepest condolences" to those who had lost loved ones in the crash.

He said: "It is heart-breaking to hear about the schoolchildren, the babies, the families whose lives have been brought to an end.

"The Foreign Office is working urgently to establish whether any further British nationals were among those on board."

On what appears to be his Facebook page, Mr Bramley said he went to Hull Grammar School, one of the oldest private schools in the country, before moving abroad to study hospitality.

The three Britons who died, including seven-month-old Julian, were among 150 on the Airbus plane to have lost their lives.

Today, as investigators studied the contents of the damaged black box cockpit voice recorder from the aircraft, Germanwings's parent company Lufthansa said there had been nothing wrong with the plane.

After Germanwings staff tearfully observed a one-minute silence in Cologne for those who had been killed, the airline announced that the dead came from at least 13 countries.

While some nationalities were still to be verified, Germanwings said the dead included 72 Germans, 35 Spaniards and two Australians.

Other countries with passengers on the flight included the USA, Iran, Israel, Japan, Denmark, Belgium and Colombia.

Among the passengers were two German opera singers - Dusseldorf-born contralto Maria Radner and bass baritone Oleg Bryjak, who was born in Kazakhstan.

Also on the flight were 16 pupils from Joseph Konig school in Haltern am See in western Germany who were flying home after a week-long exchange with students at a school near Barcelona.

Joseph Konig's headmaster Ulrich Wessel said today he was "shell-shocked and speechless".

Investigators will be trying to work out why there was no distress call from the plane which went into a slow descent even though it was in a mountainous area.

Theories include the complete incapacity of the cockpit crew, possibly after a windscreen blow-out.