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Navigating. germanwings flight 9525 with 150 people on board went down in the snowy french alps where peaks are as high as 10,000 feet. what seemed like a routine flight from barcelona to dusseldorf suddenly turned deadly. the flight took off at 10:01 a.m. local time. flight tracking sites show the plane climbed to a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet before starting an unplanned descent, dropping to 11,400 feet over eight minutes. >> it seems to me it was still a controlled descent. >> around 52 ...

So what went wrong? why did an airbus jet like this one suddenly fallout of the sky during the safest part of the flight? thousands of passengers are flying on similar planes right now. zimmerman versus obama. the man acquitted in trayvon martins death is publicly blaming president obama for racial tensions in america but hes apparently not blaming himself. and ted cruzs surprise. the senator and newly announced presidential candidate reveals new personal information in a one-on-one intervie...

Noted, it could be terrorism or anything along those lines. no evidence of that at all, at least not yet. rene, thanks very much. theres deep shock and an outpouring of grief at the airport in barcelona, spain, where the flight originated. lets go there. cnns carl penhall is on the scene for us. whats it like over there, carl? >> reporter: well, wolf in the course of the afternoon, weve seen scores of family members and relatives coming to the crisis center thats been set up at barcelona airport...

Recovered. were back with deborah hersman, the former ntsb chair, now president and ceo of the national safety council. deborah in december a lufthansa dropped 4,000 feet in one moment after the autopilot lowered the jets nose. how closely should investigators be looking at the autopilot system on all of these airbus planes? >> you know, i think theyll be looking at all past events to try to identify any similarities. in this event, at least with respect to the loss of altitude is very difficult...

Tv stations in australia. theyre quoting the australian foreign minister that australians were on the flight also that turks may have been on the flight. certainly a very koss mowcosmopolitan list of passengers. >> were hearing from officials in washington theyre checking to see if any americans were on the plane also. karl penhaul, thank you so much. deborah hersman, she chaired the national transportation safety board, now president of the national safety council. deborah deborah, thank you fo...

Her people will say, i dont want to take any chance whatsoever so ill go ahead and have the prophylactic operation. so its an incredibly personal, maybe one of the most personal decisions in medicine. >> personal decision, but when angelina jolie does it it has public impact. doctor, thank you. make sure to follow the show on twitter. thats it for today. im john berman in for jake tapper. i turn you now over to wolf blitzer. happening now. obliterated. rescuers make their way to the remote and...

Emergency that this airplane was experiencing, this crew was experiencing, they play have been focused on taking care of their airplane. >> first spot of the wreckage above a village in france with no service roads. despite the challenging conditions, the french insuperior inster said crews found one of the planes black boxes but recovering bodies could take days. thats because of the rugged terrain and weather. officials say its causing a lot of challenges to rescuers. its too early to know wha...

French alps along with some remains of 150 people on board. at least one of the airbus a320 black boxes have been found. why did the plane have a rapid descent after at a cruising altitude which is one of the safest points in a flight. we are going to cover all of the breaking news. lets again with our aviation correspondent rene marsh. she has the very latest. rene? >> the airliner is in pieces. nothing bigger than a small car. the mystery tonight is what went so terribly wrong on board an airc...

Country that prides itself on its ingenuity and certainly airline safety has something to do with that as well. of course at this point in time its the victims and victims families that are at the center of the sympathies here a crisis center has been opened at the dusseldorf airport. also lufthansa and germanwings say they are going to bring everybody who has relatives who were killed in this flight wants to go near the crash site there as well. lets have a look at how this day unfolded here. d...

What are the options investigators are considering as to what went wrong? >> you know cruise flight is actually one of the safest parts of flight because i dont see as many events. but when you have a loss of control or you have an event thats catastrophic, you actually have the potential to lose the entire plane like youre seeing here in this situation. so its really important for them to understand what was going on. i know there are going to be so many things going on. they could be looking a...