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Families those who came by plane should go back tonight. but i fear there may be some delay. well the airbus is quite a large aircraft. its an a-320. its a big aircraft. so passengers are not right next to the cockpit door. so we hear some screams only at the end. thats what i told you. the screams are in the last instance. and id remind you that the death was instantaneous because the aircraft at 700 kilometers an hour going into the mountain, well, youve seen the pictures. look ive said before...

Perfectly good. they performed exactly what they were supposed to. they have lots of redundancies its whether or not in this instance there was a pilot or co-pilot who just wanted to kill people. >> rick? >> oh im sorry. i thought you were talking to d.j. still. >> no, to you. these a-320 is a great plane. >> the a-320 is an excellent plane. i think everybody is putting the cart before the horse on this whole accident. this pilot number one, only had 630 hours he was in that cockpit alone. lets ...

There is saying its not an airbus 320. they are installing equipment. its been moved to accommodate a printer. thats not the standard configuration. i want to point that out first of all. were fining out right now whether thats a practice or not and how they handle the switch. i dont know. >> whats so important about that to you? >> because if its supposed to be kept in the normal position, lets say the pilot, one of the pilots exited the cockpit. the door is closed. >> locks automatically. >> l...

Slipped through the crack as it seems now to more information coming from the investigation. >> thank you. brian, ive been told by the control room. were going to do this together on the fly. this is the plane. this is the cockpit taken a couple of days ago. cockpits differ depending on the airline and type of aircraft. when you look at this what do you see? >> this is just a normal cockpit for the a 320 of course. its a complex system. the thing to remember about this aircraft its a fly by wire...

One to refuse access to the cockpit two to start the command to lose altitude at a thousand meters per minute as if he was coming in for a landing. where he was in the mountains there is no other airport or true airport for -- which can -- where an airbus 320 can land. were sure theres no one else in the cockpit? no, theres no one else in the cockpit. the next step will be all the recordings of the flight, so it will be -- the cabin pressure the exact flight path. and it would clear up that ther...

Decompresses it doesnt mean the plane cant continue to fly, right? if thats the only sole problem. >> no, thats absolutely correct there have been accidents and incidents before where aircraft flew for long periods of time after they had suffered decompression. >> all right. in an a 320 a lot of redundancies, if one thing goes wrong there are many things to back it up on many parts of the plane. >> absolutely. one the safest aircraft platform in existence today. it has multiple systems that all ...

And theres no other airport which could receive an airbus 320 anywhere near. >> officials with the airlines parent company lufthansa say theyre speechless that the co-pilot would deliberately crash the plane killing everyone on board, 150 people. what do we know about this co-pilot? hes identified as andreas lubitz 28 years old, a german national. he had been with the airline since september of 2013. lets bring in our senior international correspondent. you just had an exclusive interview with t...

Than za back in 2008. in twooirn there was a six-month gap in his training and the german newspaper reports that his friends say it was because he suffered burnout or depression, the airline wouldnt confirm that but did say that when he got back into the program he underwent a battery of psychological testing and he was fit to fly. he got his pilots license as a teenager teenager, he only had 600 hours. here in the u.s., an a-320 co-pilot would likely have three times as many hours, but in germa...

European aviation safety association. administration. so we know their concern according to this document stems from an a-321, that is the same family as the a-320. just slightly larger. the problem was that there were two, whats called an angle of attack probes on the airplane. essentially, what these two probes do is measure the angle of the plane to the horizon. if those two pieces of equipment are not functioning properly, you could have the situation where the pilot is getting the wrong ind...

>> translator: thank you, all, very much. >> and that was the french air safety director. nbcs claudio lavanga is still with us at the crash site. also with us john cox, a retired airline pilot who has flown the a-320. john, the important information we got was that the voice recorder is being analyzed. it may takes weeks or months. theyve found some data. they have not been able to identify the actual voices yet. he went through details. they have not found the second black box, contrary to som...