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Relatives who one of our crews met outside a residential building here that in fact patrick was the man who was steering that plane. Patrick sondenheimer. Weve known from lufthansa that he was a captain who had been flying with the airline both lufthansa and germanwings as well as another German Airline called condor for ten years. He had 6,000 flying hours. By all means a very very experienced pie lt. He was also the one who tried to get back into the cockpit, first knocking a little bit normal...

And im victor blackwell. One of the key points well be looking for, it was a bomb that took down that Russian Airliner with 224 people on board . French media reports that european analysis of the planes data recorders uphold the theory that an explosive device inside that plane, yes, brought it down. We want to go to mary, she is waiting with us to listen to what they have to say and michaelwise is with us as well. Mary, there has been some criticism weve heard from analysts who say listen, a b...

By kind of resetting what the standards are. what type of information wie going to require from airports, and to say to folks, are you really certain youve locked down the secure side, the airside of the airport operations? that is also going to involve going to places like this and say, you know, if there is a u.s. interest in particular, for the travel back and forth, what type of requirements are we going to add on to their operations in order for us to continue doing business with them? you ...

Analyzed. what was interest sergeant cvr he said that was downloaded, theyre finalizing the transcript, but there was a noise heard in the last seconds, and that that cvr will be analyzed by special labs to try to determine the nature of that noise. and you have to wonder if that noise is going to be the key to tell us what happened. >> yeah, lets bring in our panel here. we have our aviation analysts, mary schiavo and david susie, also cnn contributor, michael weiss. david, i want to start with...

Anything else. i think thats what i take away from it most. >> yeah, mary, no conclusion reached based on the analysis of the recordings, also, reached -- based on the analysis of the wreckage there kroostz these 13 kilometers. whats the headline for you here? >> well, like david, and i think that it the egyptians are right, this is far too early to be conclu concluding oh it was a bomb because as david was mentioning, the way they have to do sound analysis is compare them this with the universe...

Governess under so the-called banner. and also revert to classic terrorism operations. bombs aboard planes. blowing up civilians. if they had their druthers, they would with doing this everywhere, every day. and yes, to us in the united states. >> and i want to bring in david suze and former faa safety inspector. officials did not investigate this from the get-go as a terrorist incident. with that in mind, what may have been lost in the last week in terms of the the time and the resources and ho...

Bomb, though it certainly looks like it and common sense would say, come on, just say it. they have a lot of work to do. sometimes if you jump to conclusions early, it can taint the investigation. so i have to say that it is right this they are looking at all possibilities and have not just jumped to a conclusion. >> and they were very, very adamant in proclaiming that that is exactly what theyre doing. they are considering all possible scenarios and cannot yet conclude. how long then, based on ...

Well in that house with his brother, as well. people who knew him. people at this airline. theyre trying to piece together exactly what might have been missed also in the many medical evaluations that he had to go through to be a pilot, and to remain a pilot, fredricka. >> all right, fred pleitgen thank you so much. appreciate that. lets take a closer look now at some of the latest information that were hearing. mitchell garber is a former ntsb medical officer, and senior managing consultant for...

Having said that, they still have to follow protocol in retrieving these boxes. win at this point, as david was saying, we still have a couple more days before we make the call to say lets now put in the auv and -- >> when that happens, by the way, and ultimately if the auv does the detective work we need it to do and is successful, then its all about robotics. because theres no diver in the world that can withstand that type of pressure. how effective is one of those robotic devices in finding ...

Coming up with some wild comment, theres everything. in my mind, everything points to that. i cant see at least the two-mile marker were getting, the two-mile reception. the others i believe are auxiliary bounces and pings from that, but its not giving us location. the two-mile stretch is very encouraging to me. and it is consistent and -- with the experience ive had with pingers. >> david, tom, thank you for those thoughts. stand by. its likely thousands of feet down at the bottom of the ocean....