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What puzzles veteran crash investigators is why the crew never radioed a mayday. >> they didnt provide a stress call. they didnt indicate in anyway shape or form a problem with the aircraft. thats very unusual, given the fact that they were 38,000 feet. they would have been in complete communication with air track control. >> reporter: among the scenarios verdicts will have to consider, was there an emergency to force a rapid descent, if that was the problem the pilot should have levelled the pl...

Malfunction to a major malfunction will trigger an alarm. and once investigators actually listen to the cockpit voice recorder they will be able to tell pretty well what the specific alarm was. >> all right. if an a 320 decompresses or any plane decompresses, i take it then people lose consciousness at that point unless you put on an oxygen mask. does that necessarily mean though that when your auto pilot still be intact and when the plane continued to fly until it ran out of fuel unless there w...

Decompressuration. what brings an airplane out of the sky. there was no turn. there was no maneuver to get the airplane to a safe place. we have had air buses that lost plane over the atlantic and that glided to safety. this airplane are flew in a safe line and the pilots put the airplane in a descent and certainly possible or conceivable there was a hull breach or rapid depressuration and get down to it an altitude where they could breathe better and were not able to recover from what they were...

Bus safety technology can sometypes sometypes determine if the nose is point inging too high, but if something goes wrong with the sensors, it can figure out if the plane knows if its pointing too high for the plane to keep flying and then steps in automatically to force the nose back down. the problem occurs when something goes wrong with those sensors. the result, obviously, could be terrifying. the aviation correspondent rene marsh joins us now with more. youre learning about the safety alert...

Now the doomed germanwings flight was an airbus a320. that is well known by aviation analysts for its strong safety record. >> it is. and there are several thousand of these planes in operation around the world. miguel marquez take a closer look now at the history of this type of aircraft. >> reporter: worldwide more than 3,600 airbus a320s are flown by more than 400 airlines charter companies, and private entities. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a 20s in n fleets. among the...

>> sure, lets talk about that for a second. air bus, we have of the a 320, this is a work horse for air bus, there is 6500 of these built. and of those 20, losses. and a safe airplane. it was not built to have a long life. and so it was not meant to go in service past 20 years and i am speculating of the numbers. it was really not an airplane built to last a long time. unlike boeing. we have boeing aircraft that are flying and nearly 50 years old and boeing using aluminum and built their planes ...

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...

Office. jose? >> thank you both so very much. i want to -- were keeping a close eye on whats going on in france. specifically in the area call eded sign le alps. youre seeing the french president fan swau hollande just arriving to the area apparently already overflown the area behind him, the alps. the french alps where this a-320 crashed yesterday morning. the president of france along with angela merkel there, you see her. the leader of jemgermany are there. they just arrived after over-flying...

Im brooke baldwin. live pictures barcelona, spain, as we wait for this news conference to begin on the crash, the investigation, the implications here this plane that went down in the french alps. just a heads up were watching and waiting to hear from the ceo of lufthansa and the germanwings ceo. another american were learning a third american was on board this airbus 320. so total here of three americans, two of whom have just been identified. well bring you what we know about this third amer...

Victims. one was a long-time government contractor. also her daughter emily was a recent graduate from drexel university university. french officials are saying they are close to finding out what caused the crash on bus 320. investigators have been able to recover some sounds and voices on the damaged data recorder. >> we have not yet fully understood and worked on it to be able to say, okay this is starting at this precise point in flight this is ending at this precise moment in flight and this...