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Special medical exam. yesterday, during the lufthansa ceo press conference he said that he suspended his pilot training for a certain period of time but gave no details. it was, however, known that he did qualify after that for flying the airbus a-320 back in 2014. >> remarkable to go through this and to get through that. and to go through flight school and get that job and have a job at a prestigious airline, which is a subsidiary of lufthansa at the age of 28 years old, despite the background ...

A.m. thats when the captain began knocking on the cockpit door. moments later, transponder data shows the autopilot was reset intentionally and by hand from 38,000 feet down to 100 feet. now, to help us understand how that situation could have transpired there on the plane, why the captain had no possible way of opening that door from the outside, we learn more about that from kyung lah. >> reporter: he cannot imagine why a pilot would do this. >> terrain, terrain. >> reporter: but bugs forsyth ...

Course to dusseldorf, germany. a flight that should have lasted around 90 minutes. the air bus 320 reached cruising altitude of 38,000 feet and pilots received a call from air traffic control to maintain that altitude. just a few minutes later at 10:31 a.m. flight 9525 began to lose altitude, stopped responding to calls from air traffic control and after several minutes of a rapid unauthorized descend crashed into the french alps. while rapid was not consistent with a nose dive. rather the plane...

Said that his performance was without criticism leading up to this crash. >> thanks so much. we appreciate it. and we go now to the "hannity" big board where fox news correspondent and former navy fighter pilot leah gaberiel has another look. >> departed shortly after 10:00 a.m. and began on its scheduled course to dusseldorf, germany. a flight that should have lasted around 90 minutes. the air bus 320 reached cruising altitude of 38,000 feet and pilots received a call from air traffic control t...

He did qualify, to fly that big airbus a-320. >> he was trained and he was fit to fly. >> yeah, he was cleared. but he might have had -- >> was this guy having a bad day? was he at the end of a relationship? the answer according to one story is yes, he was in the middle of a slough split, it was a bad one, as most are. they said it was a significant discovery at his apartment so maybe some proof that a relationship evaporated. he was having trouble getting over it. how we could have anticipated ...

This door controlling to gel switch with warning lights is normally installed on the pedestal that can also be located on the overhead panel on request. >> and joining us, two pilots who fly air bus a-320 dj frost and rick. dj, let me go first to you. i guess when you get into the cockpit, when you fly a plane, you dont know, necessarily know who is going to be next to you, do you? not like somebody that you necessarily fly with all time? >> many times you are dealing with a new crew member, som...

Cockpit of every commercial plane flying around the world. he cannot imagine why a pilot would do this but he knows how. a retired military and commercial pilot, he says hes flown thousands of hours in the a 320 cockpit, one of the safest high-tech passenger jets use around the world. he like all pilots has used the switches hundreds of times. >> unlock you pull up and hold it. a light comes on and says cockpit is open. if i release, it goes back to normal position. >> norm is locked. >> thats c...

The pilot, whose name has not yet been released, was preparing a standard landing plan for dusseldorf and the pilot asked the co-pilot to take over and sounds indicate that the pilot left the cabin and the cockpit door closed. at this stage, quoting again, the co-pilot is in control alone, the prosecutor said. it is when he is alone that the co-pilot manipulates the flight monitoring system to activate the descent of the plane. the prosecutor said, this action could only have been voluntary. and...

Bounds of his constitutional authority. its contributed to this whole atmosphere of not being able to work together. >> you might want to stick around for my off-the-record comment tonight. thats a great tease for it anyway, panel, thank you. >> this is a fox news alert. three americans on that doomed jet that crashed into the french alps. 150 people were killed when the german wings ayer bus a 320 inexplicably dissended for 8 minutes and then crashed. looking for the black boxes for answers. ca...

Things in his past including a disposition that wasnt appropriate for a pilot of a-320 with only 636 hours or whatever it was. >> and before we go i want to ask a basic question back to claudio at the scene. weve been talking to you the whole time since this began. and as of late yesterday, it was still viewed as a tragic massive disaster and loss of life. as of late last night, as you have been reporting, it became based on the new information, a mass crime scene, the scene of a mass murder. ha...