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Following conversations with hollande they have decided to postpone their visit and they are headed back home now. if we could switch over to sky, i would appreciate it. this is the terrain in this area. sky news, if you would for the video portion of this. this is the best shot that weve been ail to get. our understanding is that this came in from a helicopter thats right there on scene. you can see a lot of snow. i think what theyll do is cycle through the series of maps, which is very good. h...

Crash in the french alps where a debris field is scattered across mountainous terrain. 150 passengers were on board the germanwings airbus 320. a budget airline separated by lufthansa. officials do not expect any survivors. among the passengers booked spanish and turkish and german citizens including 16 students and two teachers from a school outside dusseldorf. investigators admit there are very few clues as to what went wrong. what we do know less than an hour into the flight the plane made an...

Quite that low. you know, if youve lost a major section of your plane, you dont need to get down that low. you can get 15,000, 13,000 feet and be fine. i am curious, if indeed the pilot requested that altitude why he wanted to go that low in the alps. >> if he was situationally aware of where he was at the time or if there was a degree of chaos. whos to know. >> thats right. there have been problems with the pitot tubes on the air bus. but i dont believe those involve the air bus 320. the pitot ...

Pilots trying to get the plane down because of some incapacity tating or critical event on board. we dont know what happened because there were no distress calls or mayday calls or nothing xgt but were left to assume that something very serious happened because they were trying to get the plane down so quickly. heres the other thing thats per plexing. if you have a decompression event, if you lose oxygen in the cabin, generally you try toe get the plane down to 10,000 feet so people can breathe....

Concrete building there and caught on fire. all 187 people on that plane were killed as well as several people on the ground. you can see images of the aftermath here. bear with me to june of 1988 a crash during an air show air france flight 296 failed t earlier the a-320 was commercially launched and right away the aircraft strongly sold there and it has been the fastest selling plane as far as manufacturer goes in the world for several years. you put into context how safe this is but those few...

Populated airport from which they came? >> see, normally in flat terrain, yeah, that would be one of the first things youd want to think about is to turn around. now, that i can see the map, i can see the -- turning around might not have been such a great idea either. we dont know what the approach was like going back into the airport they came out of. we dont know what the weather was like when they took off. and that -- you know, the captain may have decided that was more dangerous than trying...

Much as possible. another thing to think about here, this may have turned into a complex emergency. jp was talking about the bells and whistles that will go off as you get close to terrain. in a emergency situation there may be a lot of bells and whistles coming off. when i was flying and had problems, a lot of different bells and whistles start going off. as the pilot, in this case the pilot and first pilot would be working through emergency procedurets you can get confused. youre going down to...

Flight aware saying there was no emergency code squawked out. here is the time line for you. lets walk through it. this flight left barcelona at about 10:00 this morning it. was at 38,000 feet at 10:27 a.m. take a look at that. this this plane the a-320, the normal ceiling, the highest it can go is 39,000. so to go to 38,000 is bumping up against the ceiling. it only lasted there for a few minutes. one to three minutes and then it began its descend and the last contact was at 6800 feet when the ...

Paris flight a while back where they had trouble with the controllers and the training on the crew. anyone who flies the airbus seshl has gotten information about that and they were supposed to receive the retraining if there was any issue there, concerning keeping up the air speed particularly in the weather. but theres no indication that thats a problem right now. so the 320 has a really long track record widely used around the world. many many in use in the united states. so it could be an is...

Minutes altogether. the airliner had contact to the french radar services and french pilots and that was at 10:53 when the airliner had about the height of 6,000 feet when contact stopped. that was then when the crash happened. as mentioned, the airliner had 144 passengers plus six crew members onboard. the airliner was an airbus a-320, and the flight number was aipx and the airliner was delivered in 1991 to lufthansa