Control Descent News Today

To know if in the middle of a crisis coverage for instance you say we dont know anything so were going away from the story until we learn more you run the fear of losing the audience and so youre stuck in a story like that unless you exert real will power. with being on the air, with people who are forced to say things that dont mean anything like -- >> i think thats the big difference with this one, isnt it really? there have been officials who have been quite accessible to the press, that they...

>> this the worst situation ive been in. >> reporter: what happens to your hands after that crash? >> theyre sweaty. you can see it. in all the years ive been flying a simulator, never seen an airplane hit the ground. we recover the airplane before that happens. >> reporter: so that was unthinkable. for you. >> yeah. hard to see. >> reporter: roger takes us through a manual scenario explaining the germanwings pilot likely did not do this based on the control descent. >> pull up. >> reporter: its...

There could be explosive decompression as a result of some structural failure of the aircraft. everything flies around thats not tied down. it physically feels like its punched. its a physical event. if thats happened we expect the aircraft to have defuated deviated left to right. this is indication of some software failure in which there was an uncommanded control descent or perhaps incapacitation of some type for some reason whether through criminal intent by a crew member or passenger or by s...

Co-pilot andreas lubitz may have practiced a control descent on his outbound flight that day, potentially rehearsing for the crash that would take place hours later. tom costello with details. this is extraordinary. >> reporter: it is. its a preliminary report that comes out from the french investigative agency. it describes the flight from dusseldorf into barcelona. the flight immediately prior to the fatal crash back to dusseldorf. it crashed into a mountain, of course. we have a graph that sh...