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Descent that theyre discussing. tell us what that means. were looking at the airbus 320 cockpit. >> theres a little knob on this eyebrow panel. what it does is sets the rate of descent. if you want to go at 1,000 feet per minute down, you set it at 1,000. you can also say i want to go up 1,000 feet as well. thats what hes saying was intentionally moved. there are some models that you just spin it and it knows youre going that. but its so you go of 1,000 foot increments or 100-foot increments. he...

Else that will help investigators find out what happened during that flight. hopefully that will be recovered tomorrow. but in this case if this is really what happened, and this is not confirmed yet, if this is really what happened then that voice recording black box will be more important than the flight data recording. that will mean this is not a technical issue, but something that is more human. >> claudeio lavanga at the crash site, thank you. the news reported by "the new york times" just...

Out to the co-pilot inside. the co pilot is heard breathing normally but is eerily silent. >> it seemed hes breathing normal. not the breathing of something having a stroke or heart attack. he doesnt say anything not one word. i repeat, absolute silence we think in all circumstances its deliberate. i determine it to be deliberate. refusing entry to the cockpit, second maneuvering the loss of altitude. it is 1,000 meters a minute as if he was landing. were above the mountains. theres no other air...

Alone in the cockpit at the time of the crash. one of the thing this immediately calls into question is who were the pilots, the pilot and co-pilot. weve heard a little about the -- the main commanding officer whos had some -- something more than 6,000 hours in airbus a320s. we dont know his name. we know a little less about the co-pilot involved. it seems that, according to reports from germany, that he joined the company less than two years ago. and may have been something of a newcomer to the...

Again, ill repeat. the copilot was the one who was manipulating the flight monitoring system who managed the descent of the plane. so again, all of these actions were completely voluntary. then we hear the pilot calling, asking to regain access into the cockpit. this is through a certain type of phone between cabins. so again, we can assume he was identified, however, the copilot just didnt respond. hes knocking. hes asking to be let in. zero response from the copilot. we hear human breathing wi...

Go back to the picture of the door, if it is a normal way, there is a way outside that you can initiate an entry procedure, and thereby if the person inside, you can get in, because they wont do anything, and if they want to stop you, they will switch to lock, so there is a way in which the person inside of the cockpit can get in. >> unless the person inside puts it to lock. >> yes, and that leads us to nefarious, and so if it were normal, unless the person outside --? so you are saying if one o...

Is the day of many of the relatives of the victims are set to fly out to the area where this happened to the crash, so it is going to be interesting how the new report will play into that don? >> it is going to be interesting the information of the two pilots, because it puts a big spotlight on them. what do we know about them fredrick? >> yeah well, it is not very much. there was a press conference today by the ceos of lufthansa, and of germanwings, and he did not say much. they give a little b...

Breathing in the cabin, and we will hear that until the final impact. i reckon that the victims only became aware of what was going on at the very last moment. let me finish. because on the tape the sound that were hearing, the screams are only in the very last moments before impact. so we can conclude that in all circumstances, its deliberate. at the moment i consider it to be deliberate. first of all, refusing entry to the cockpit. second maneuvering the lever for loss of altitude weve said no...

But, there are just too many different possibilities to speculate about what could have caused this incident. >> all right. but if you take 8 minutes to go down 32,000 feet, if you are a passenger in the back of the plane you are going to notice that its going down, right? you can feel the plane going down? >> i believe thats correct. >> is there -- i mean, have you ever taken -- have you ever as a pilot taken an a 320 down that steep, for instance, 32,000 feet in 8 minutes? is that uncommon? >>...

And the loss of altitude and knowing he said that there was no other airport that could receive an airbus a-320. and he also said rather tragically that he had to give this information today to the families. some 400 people according to local media reports. families and friends arrived in marseilles. they were charters brought in on chartered flights from barcelona. they had an hour and a half briefing with the prosecutor and delivered this news and answered their questions. i can only imagine h...