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Officials from france and else where have said at this point they dont think they could have anything to do with terrorism. why it happened though, still very troubling. because these airbus 320s typically dont just fall from the sky. i mean the troubled tiemdsmes are takeoff and landing. the search is on for the second black box. the first is being analyzed in paris. we have spoken to the man who is coordinating the helicopter movements here on the ground on the staging area. in the southern al...

Earlier this morning, they were concerned about getting on the airbuss later in the day. >> it was a 24-year-old plane. they are worried this might be emdemic in the model it crashed at 10:30. it started descending rapidly. it crashed within eight minutes. why wasnt that descent altered? why werent they sending out the distress call. were they so focused in getting the plane right they didnt communicate. third is communicate, third is try to rectify or did something else happen? >> if you were w...

>> detectives are asking anyone who has any information on this case to call police. and straight ahead. more breaking news. the "new york times" reporting the pilot of a 320 crashed in the french apps left the cockpit and was unable to return. more on that breaking news story next. know you have insights from professional investment strategists to help set your mind at ease. know that planning for retirement can be the least of your worries. with the guidance of a pnc investments financial advi...

Nefarious act going on that prevented them. >> richard, during the break, you were talking about the angling of attack. what does that mean? >> this is the issue that 320, identified. in certain situations, the plane automatically thinks its going to stall and then therefore begins its own descent. >> this is what rene marsh was talking about at the top of the broadcast. >> the plane starts to do it itself and you cant stop it. >> it does it because the sensors believe the plane has stalled? >> ...

>> the mountain weather often creates clouds its a very challenging situation for the rescuers. >> around 10:00 a.m. local tuesday, the airbus 320 was on the ground in barcelona, its takeoff delayed by 30 minutes. the company says it was air traffic control issues not the plane itself that delayed departure departure. once in the air around 10:45 a.m. headed towards dusseldorf germany. the plane reached a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. then suddenly flight 9525 descended rapidly for eight min...

Altitude as well, so it is not unprecedented. >> richard, you wanted to to get in? >> well he makes a perfect point. germanwings, and it is lufthansa and this little subsidiary is backwards and forward with lufthansa, and never a moment when the germanwings could be anything other than the lufthansa group. and yes, its pilots are paid less than the lufthansa main but that is the goal, because it is a point-to-point carrier like southwest, and avoiding the hub of frankfort and munich. >> and so w...

We know what happened with that accident. the air asia crash that happened just around -- between christmas and new years, was also an a-320. and the french authorities are investigating that. we still dont know what caused that plane to go down, although we have some clues in terms of weather and other kinds of things. but its -- theres a very good track record. and, again, we have to remind ourselves and the public that aviation is still the safest form of travel, as witnessed of the record of...

Another a320 crashed and theyre trying to figure out what caused that. they were able to recover that planes black box which revealed alarms were going off. the words they used, alarms were screaming, at the time the pilots were trying to stabilize the plane before it crashed into the sea. an airbus 320 was involved in the miracle on the hudson in new york. who could forget it caused by a bird strike. in the cockpit, that cockpit voice recorder they were able to recover captured a cool headed su...

>> you know we are looking a lot at the plane, itself the a-320 jet model first entered service in 1988. just days ago, the company christened its 9,000th jet and delivered about 600 a year to carriers world wide. the companies says there are more than 3,000 of that model in use. the entire fleet has logged about 150 million flight hours. more than 85 million flights. airbus maintains that the number of fatal commercial flights has remained stable. while the number of overall flights and passeng...

Of witness evidence. we did speak to one man who lives in the last village before the accident site and what he describes is hearing this strange noise that he certainly never heard before from an aircraft and then nothing. no explosion. no sound of an accident until he realized the plane had, in fact gone down in the valley just next door to his village. >> keir, im looking at the debris up and down very steep crevices and mountainsides. give us a sense of where you are standing and how brief t...