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38,000 feet to 96 feet. the plane hit the mountains at 6,000. and the control the co-pilot activated requires several different turns and could not be programmed accidentally. when the cockpit doors lock, there is a keypad that would allow a pilot to get in using an emergency number. there is no indication the captain of the germanwings flight punched in that emergency code but even if he had it can be overridden by the pilot inside the cockpit. for now its all about motive, which is why investi...

To the locked position? >> exactly. yes. exactly. after that time whether it be a 15-minute lockout, that resets the system and then potentially the captain could reenter the emergency code. which sets off a continuous buzzer in the cockpit. and then all the co-pilot would have had to do is to take that switch back to the locked position again. >> its interesting, david soucie. so essentially, the co-pilot would have been getting warning that the pilot was entering the code and trying to get in ...

Its a time switch but nobody will get into the cockpit. >> we dont yet know whether the pilot who was locked outside actually tried to enter in the emergency code that would have granted him access but it almost doesnt matter because the co-pilot who was at the controls could have just toggled it down to the locked position and that would have overridden any attempts from the outside to get in correct? >> that is correct. he can override it. like i said its a timed switch. 57 5 to 20 minutes. lo...

Times," hear the sound of someone trying to break down the door to the cockpit. of course the doors are armored. its tell to do that. theres also a code which in an emergency a pilot can use to get back into the cockpit, entering an emergency code. it can be overridden if theres someone in the cockpit that pushes the mississippi and overrides the access to the cockpit. so some of this clears up some the mystery but add more elements of mystery. now i should say that one thing that happened in th...

Attendant go into the cockpit as many airlines do? and thirdly, post mh-370, there was this view that a pilot should never be alone in the cockpit for the simple reason either they could have a heart attack or drop dead, or b, for the nefarious option. so as its been portrayed so far, you have a situation where theres a pilot out of the cockpit and for whatever reason, he cant use the emergency code to get back in again, and the pilot inside has locked him out. >> just quickly, if they do get th...

Their arduous job of collecting evidence and bodies from to the mountain side and this job is going to take many weeks to carry out. 4 family 40 families of the victims are heading back tonight. in response to what happened, several airlines here in europe have already changed their policies now mandating that once one of the two pilots leaves the cockpit, a flight attendant needs to sits in there with him or her. revelations that the pilot was intentionally locked out of the cockpit now raisi...

Via pilot or flight attendant with a preset code. the pilot of germanwings flight was trying to unlock the door. the copilot can manually override the code which he did, with a button in the cockpit. this video from airbus shows how the captain would have tried to access the congress p it. >> on the code patch he enters the the emergency code and then presses the hash key. this triggers the timer for 30 seconds. the green light on the code pad flashes, indicating imminent unlocking. in the cockp...

Terrorism. theres no evidence as yet that would lead us down the terrorism path. terrorism, you ask ten people to define terrorism, you get ten different answers but generally intimidation and violence to achieve political objectives. we dont have enough information on this gentlemans background to make that. i have spoken to a number of sources in the airline industry that work for very major airlines in the uk, whats interesting are the security protocols in terms of what the security protocol...

All of those families who lost a loved one in this accident. the ntsb is as you said monitoring. i talked to them this morning. they will participate if asked, but at this point they have not been asked. the french will take the lead on the investigation with support from germany and spain and others. i think the critical question is to look at obviously what happened was this an accident or was it something else. until we get the data from the data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, we wont k...

Marseilles or nice or in italy or switzerland and they didnt do that. >> exactly. thats whats lending to the theory that tom put out there that they were probably somehow incapacitated, but maybe they were confused. maybe there was some sort of toxin in the air that would confuse them because why would you not make attempt to make a quick radio call over 8 minutes and eventually put in a 7700 emergency code. so they were somewhat conscious, yet theres no evidence to point to them looking for ano...