they go decelerating within ten minutes and slam into a mountain. the big question is, did his mental state play into it or could it have been a breakup with a girlfriend? they were supposed to get married next year, but recently they did break up. you got to wonder what the significant clue might be if it wasn t a suicide note, was it something from her, was it her picture all ripped to shreds? we have no idea. just speculation. they re combing through his apartment and his parent s as well. they re probably looking through his phone records and bank statements and computer and social media. we saw them bringing out parts of a computer. so, anyway, also breaking overnight, we re just learning the captain who was locked out of the cockpit reportedly tried to use an ax to force his way back in. the cockpit flight recorder shows the captain first knocking softly and then louder and louder and then yelling before the plane plunged into the mountains at its regular rate. amy kellog
hands on is that fiance that he had the breakup with. they were supposed to get married next year. not going to happen. breaking overnight, another fox news alert. we have just learned that the captain who was locked out of the cockpit was looking at a door just like that. reportedly there is an ax on-board that particular plane and according to one news report he tried to use the ax to break down the door and get inside. cockpit flight recorder shows the captain knocking gently at first, then louder and louder, yelling before the plane plunged into the mountains. before he did you could hear screams of terror. now the very latest of what searchers are finding in the wreckage. good morning, amy. reporter: hi, anna. i don t know how anyone would know that the captain used an ax, but germanwings does confirm to us that there was an ax on board and it was outside the cockpit and they won t say where obviously for security reasons,
dusseldorf, germany. at 10:27, that is when they believe the plane reached a cruising altitude of some 38,000 feet. at that point it is thought that the captain got up to go to the bathroom leaving lubitz in control of the plane. the captain was somehow locked out of the cockpit on the cockpit flight recorder. you can hear the captain trying to smash down the door. you can hear the desperate screams of passengers in the final moments of that flight. now, it is believed that around 10:31 a.m. lubitz manually reset the autopilot and the plane began its descent and then by 10:40 the plane lost contact with radar at around 6,175 feet. and as we all know, the flight crashed into the french alps not far from here. george? erin, and just looking at your background, certainly
reporter: christine, the mystery deepening here in france. what we don t seem to know or what authorities don t know is why one of the pilots left the cockpit and why the other pilot didn t let him back inside. now so far french authorities have declined to comment on the reports. publicly what they said about the contents of the cockpit flight recorder is they are analyzing noises and voices on the file. meanwhile, a critical piece to the puzzle still missing. the flight data recorder. we know they managed to recover the casing but the recorder itself still missing. no doubt a subject to the ongoing recovery search happening in the alps. it kicked off again this morning. the first helicopters landing in the staging area behind me. we are expecting the arrival of
all 49 people on board. we put our lives in the hands of people that we assume that the faa is and the airlines are properly training. reporter: both black boxes, the cockpit flight recorder divulge panic in the cockpit as the plane tumbles towards the ground. marvin says jesus christ and we re down. rebecca trying to say something but cut short by her own scream. pitched and rolled and this horrifying fact. the pilots were joking around as the plane slowed in the final minutes before tragedy struck. randi kaye cnn, new york. and with us now is david suci. the black box tell us everything but they don t say everything. there are some things that are left out. what are the most important things that we learn?