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Threat perception is what they think is happening and they may get it wrong because of that alone. these are difficult situations as the former assistant director said. and its very easy to second guess and that split second decision that the officer is making we could talk about it for the next ten years whether it could be made or not be made. >> would it make any difference to use tasers for example, instead of lethal weapons? >> well the problem with a taser is its one shot one chance and ma...

Wolf. its unlikely however. i think what you have here is not the typical template for an emergency situation, which would be -- think of sully. you declare an emergency. its a mayday. you look for the nearest landing field. you certainly wouldnt continue on to a mountain range if you had a problem like this. was the crew incapacitated or was there a problem with the pressurization system which allowed them to -- and they couldnt get a radio call off? was the plane not set up for altitude hold o...

Been pilot error? >> well i dont think youd rule anything out at this point, wolf. pilot error is on the list as investigators go through the three big buckets that they look at which are, the human being, the machine and the environment. im downplaying that initially at least. the machine itself we need to look at the maintenance records, so if there was some specific problem with the airliner and the cockpit voice recorder and i suspect theyll find it in due course because the wreckage while i...

Marseille with a long run way. is it possible that the pilots didnt know they had a problem? >> if you had some sort of false reading from the pitot tubes that gave you an idea that your speed or altitude was wrong or something that made you unaware situationally about where the plane was, its true they could become distracted and didnt realize they were flying into the mountains. this sounds outrageous but, in fact it has happened before wolf we dont know if any of these scenarios is really wha...

Clock. each of these flights is a bit over an hour. so we have to look at it in the context of five or six flights a day whereas a 747 might do one flight a day. its a hard-working airplane. i dont believe its an airbus problem. otherwise this would have surfaced a long time ago. this type has been in service since 1998. this was delivered in 1991 to lufthansa, immaculately maintained by one of the best maintenance aircraft outfits in the world. it should check all the boxes. >> is there a poten...

Failures cases where police thought they were going for guns but they were reaching for cell phones or something else. the stats dont tell the whole story. in those moments, how tough is it? >> its dark out, ive just chased somebody we may be wrestling to secure that persons arrest and suddenly that person is reaching into a place, maybe reaching towards me maybe throwing punches at me or trying to reach for my weapon. that is a hard hard decision to make in a millisecond. >> reporter: the overw...

None dmoen straighting theyre tracking the airplane trying to communicate and actually being proactive about saying theres a problem. everyone is going to be looked at in the investigation and the amount of time that lapsed between when decisions were made and communications happened will be critical. >> once it went from 38,000 feet and began a controlled desent over the next six, seven, eight minutes whatever it was until it crashed into the french alps no communication whatsoever. theyll be b...