As you probably know, it went down in the french alps on a flight from barcelona to dusseldorf, germany. The plane descending 27,000 feet in nearly 8 minutes and apparently flying straight into the ground. Tonight, there is new focus on a key safety feature on airbuses that can sometimes under rare conditions put them into a descent that can hard to stop. Airbus knew of the problem, and the European Aviation Safety Agency the equivalent of americas faa issued a warning about it nearly four months ago. Rene marsh has been working her sources on this. She joins us momentarily, but first, how this tragedy unfolded. Reporter 10 01 a. M. , local time, germanwings 9525 takes off from barcelona after a 26 minute delay. Flies over the mediterranean and starts to climb. Around 10 27, hits cruising altitude after 38,000 feet. Just about three minutes later, right around the time 9525 is back overland in france, something goes wrong. Loses altitude quickly, a span of about 8 minutes, drops nearly
And apparently flying straight into the ground. Tonight, there is new focus on a key safety feature on airbuses that can sometimes under rare conditions put them into a descent that can hard to stop. Airbus the European Aviation safety agency, the equivalent of americas faa issued a warning about it nearly 4 months ago. Rene marsh has been working her sources on this. She joins us momentarily, but first, how this tragedy unfolded. Reporter 10 01 a. M. Local time german wings 9525 takes off from barcelona after a 26 minute delay. Flies over the mediterranean and starts to climb. Around 10 27, hits cruising altitude after 38,000 feet. Just about three minutes later, right around the time 599525 is back overland in france something goes wrong. Loses altitude quickly, a span of about 8 minutes, drops nearly 27,000 feet to 11,400 feet. Its now deep into the french alps. You just dont descend. As a pilot, you have to request the descent, have to request to change altitudes. Since we know the
Outfront tonight. The breaking news. Death. A jury sentencing boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection. A First Responder says it was the right decision. He wanted to go to hell and hes going to get there early. Tsarnaev showed no reaction as the death sentence was read. But as he was taken away by u. S. Marshals he smiled, hands cuffed at his waist, his index fingers extended in a suggestion said to look like a gun slingers two pistol salute. They exploded two bombs 12 second apart near the end of the Boston Marathon finish line two years ago. They caused horrific injuries. 17 of the injured lost limbs. And tsarnaev killed 29yearold crystal campbell 23yearold lindsey lieu and 8yearold martin richard. Three days later the brothers assassinated Police Officer sean callier as they tried to flee. Even in the wake of whohorror or tragedy, we are not intimidated. The trial to have this case show cased an important american ideal. That even the worst of the worst deserve
Confident the tide will turn back. He says very soon in ramadi. He says the air strikes the u. S. Led air strikes will continue. Are you getting that same sort of upbeat assessment what some are calling spin coming in from pentagon officials . Absolutely wolf yes. This is the line that youre hearing this morning across washington from the administration. Secretary of state john kerry already saying he thinks ramadi could be retaken very soon by the iraqi forces the pentagon saying its a setback, but its only a setback for today. That iraqi forces will move with u. S. Assistance to retake the city. I think many people believe that will be very problematic. This is an urban area. Iraqi forces have fled. The people are under siege. Isis has moved in ieds once again, a massive fighters a mass of fire power digging them out of an urban area is not something air strikes is going to be able to do. It doesnt work that way. Air strikes dont work unless that way until youre willing to take civil
Five including two fight attendants to the hospital. I thought we were going down. Reporter the orlandobound flight hit severe turbulence. Passengers say the drop in altitude came out of nowhere. We were going and there was a drop like you were going down the bottom of a roller coaster. Reporter one passenger reports seeing a woman flying out of her seat. The lady three rows in front of me bashed her head to the plastic. The plastic was broken. Reporter this photo shows cracks in another overhead compartment after a passenger crashed into it. It was crazy, lifted out of our seats. If this sounds familiar remember just back in february we covered a United Airlines flight with severe turbulence. A number of people were injured in that case. As for this particular case here we know the faa is investigating. There is also continuing to be the search for flight 370. An expansive new search in this area is underway now and search teams will need more scientisticated equipment to get a closer