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The plane. its last known altitude 6,000 feet. then flight 9525 disappeared from radar. >> translator: a terrible very sad day for germanwings and the whole louvre thauz saturdayust thauz thaunz saturday family. >> reporter: a government official said the plane was, quote obliterated. human remains strewn meters. french authorities say the pilot did not send a distress call or signal that there was trouble. it was air traffic control that declared an emergency because they couldnt reach the pilo...

Flight number by the way. the flight number is 4u9525. and were looking at reports of an sos signal that was sent in from pretty high altitude. analysts now saying, according to bill neely, that something catastrophic must have happened on the plane. i dont want you to surmise, john cox, but from what you know about the aircraft its history, and flying in that area what comes to mind in terms of the questions you would have at this point? >> well, i think a couple of things are important. if the...

>> yeah. there was an incident many years ago which was conducting whats called an overshoot procedure and the systems overrided it and it ended up flying into the trees. what i want to say before we go down this route of engineering malfunctions is that this aircraft would have been at 32,000 feet or thereabouts. if theres any sort of malfunction in the system the pilot and the crew has a long time to start putting on emergency codes on the transponders 7700 thats the international recognized e...

Into the transponder, which is the emergency code, they did not put in the hijacking code, they turned it off. so we have to infer there was human involvement in this and it has to be a hijacking or stolen aircraft. >> mike? >> i have to agree entirely. and for safetys sake, we have to assume that going forward if someone has this airplane, thats a real stretch, and want to do something with it, sometime in the next 12 months they might do something with it, we need to look into those options. b...

Last transition to air traf rfi control. >> that is a key point. the scott brenner who is a former faa official was at the faa on 9\11 is the one who broke this here and others have questioned it. we questioned it that very night, mike, because they were saying, the transponder was -- tracked the plane prior to that and it doesnt match up. in other words, the ascertainable aid ascertain able radar data doesnt support that assertion. what we do know is that a destination that was west and not in ...

Transmission to air traffic control. and at that point, the transponders went off and that suggests hijacking. >> that is a key point, and scott brenner, who is a former faa official, who was at the faa on 9/11, broke that news here. we questioned it that very night, mike, because they were saying look, the transponder tracks the plane and it doesnt match up. the ascertainable assertion doesnt line up. we dont know it for sure. what we do know is that a destination that was west and not on the p...

Transmission to air traffic control. and at that point, the transponders went off and that suggests hijacking. >> that is a key point, and scott brenner, who is a former faa official, who was at the faa on 9/11, broke that news here. we questioned it that very night, mike, because they were saying look, the transponder tracks the plane and it doesnt match up. the ascertainable assertion doesnt line up. we dont know it for sure. what we do know is that a destination that was west and not on the p...

There are o several ways, vhf radio, setting an emergency code in the transponder sending out an emergency signal. >> it seems like we keep going up. somebody sends one up and they shoot it down. this lithium ion battery is out there and now its shot down. its frustrating. >> its been rather chaotic and in many cases incomplete. as ive said repeatedly, i would like to hear the air traffic control recordings, tapes, conversations between the a aircraft and the crew. was there a changeoff? some st...

Emergency code. you would be in communication with air traffic control. there wouldnt be silence. and im not at all comfortable with the signoff of the last transmission you did hear. i would want to hear the 20 minutes before that, of the whole conversation, and then apply that last voice to the ongoing air traffic control transmissions that have been going back and forth. as i stated yesterday, asians generally dont use that short clip vernacular of "all right, goodnight." the asians are very ...

Emphasis seems to be shifting based on the evidence towards some unauthorized criminal act. >> now, we did speak to an aviation expert earlier who suggested that maybe there was something wrong with the flight. if there is some kind of mechanical issue, could you program in those waypoints quickly enough to try to help you address that mechanical issue? >> you could, but there really wouldnt be any reason to, and there are multiple means with this very modern, sophisticated airplane, to make a d...