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The actual complete piece is a very sharp-ended piece, and that sharp end is missing. so we already know from that piece of information alone, that the impact was on the rear end of the popularflaperon. the people in toulouse who are looking at this the french in particular who have had a lot of experience looking at the wreckage from air france flight 447, that went down in the atlantic theyre very good looking at the tale tell signs. theres no signs on this particular piece of there having bee...

Welcome back. the crash of the germanwings flight has re-ignited the debate about control. theres been technology developed that would let authorities on the ground intervene the there was a crisis in the air. boeing has a patent and google has conducted a test flight. why isnt it being used? tom foreman has the answer. >> reporter: boeing has a patent google has a test flight of one of these planes big tech names all over the world are looking at this idea of airplanes that can be flown remotel...

Theres already been action taken. theres already been safety measures taken. not only the airlines have taken measures to say we do need two people in that cockpit now as a mitigation but the regulatory authority themselves they totally skipped right over this part of figuring out what happened and then applying the regulation which is incredibly time consuming. flight 447, were still waiting on things to respond to that accident. but this is different. this is very different. i think theres a s...

What were dealing with here. remind us of what the facts were. >> well egyptair 990, michael, we had a relief co-pilot an individual who was not going to be promoted to captain. there were a bunch of personal issues surrounding his conduct in the united states and in egypt, and he took off, was a flight from l.a. they remanled overnight at jfk, then there was a jfk to egypt flight. when they took off somewhere around nantucket, he as a relief pilot went in and took the controls. the captain left...

I dont think theres any place i really would rather be. welcome back. the terror attacks on 9/11 sparked increased security measures on airplanes to keep the bad guys out of the cockpit and ironically those same protections made it possible for the co-pilot of the germanwings flight to go on a deadly path of destruction. the co-pilot deliberate licaried out the disaster after locking the steel reinforced door to the cockpit. joining me now is cnn national security analyst and former assistant ...

And are grieving the loss of marty and kim and piper and sierra as well. and this is just -- this is a blow to us. >> and, i mean have they already made plans for the funerals yet? >> reporter: yeah. anderson, theyre planning that. sierra wilders services will be held on wednesday. and the service for piper, kimberly and martin marty, they should all be held on friday but important to note anderson the family is expecting these to be private services. >> george howell appreciate that. i talked t...

Would like to do. we would like to go left or right. >> flight 447 in 2009 was flying from rio to paris in a powerful storm. ice formed on the tubes on the planes exterior. the tubes deliver critical information to the planes computers. pilots had con feuding signals as to what was happening in the plane. >> they were getting horns and siren, readouts on their displays and they were trying to determine what was happening with the airplane. >> the pilot increased power and climbed, pushing the ai...

Search efforts for air flight france 447 which disappeared in the atlantic. all that aside, weather has been the main focus here. because the pilots relatively experienced the aircraft itself relatively new t. airline with a flewless safety weather t. pilot said they were concerned about the weather. do you see a comparison between this flight and what you studied in air france flight 447? >> sure absolutely. in many ways its the same situation. they were approaching in fact the same tuned i kin...

Like to be in their shoes. as we mentioned the search so far has been hampered by bad weather the same kind of weather thats believed to have been at least a factor if not the primary cause of flight 8501s disappearance. but there are other factors to consider. lets talk more about them. jeff i want to start with you and the flight itself no may day call reported. i want you to pull back the curtain for us if you can on what its like to be a pilot in an emergency situation and what are the ste...

Former inspector general, jeffwise and a new york-based psychology journalist and kristene denverson is an underwater search expert. mary we have heard all day long a lot of people comparing this to what happened to airfrance, flight 447, flying from brazil to paris. are those fair comparisons, given the limitations on what we know right now? >> well, i think theyre fair comparisons when you look at just what we know. the initial reports from airfrance 447 sounded like this. and when you start a...