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Clearances at one time. ive been a flight data specialist 34 years now. >> people believe it will get rid of errors that happen during verbal exchanges. its currently being tested at newark liberty airport and memphis national. this summer it will roll out in houston and salt lake city. next year 50 airports around the country would have data com. the trick is putting new technology in all the airplanes which could take a few years. its not mandatory. experts say within five years, this will be ...

Investigators say 27-year-old lubitz practiced before he steered into the french alps. just before the deadly crash, lubitz and the captain, piloted the plane to barcelona. with the captain out of the cockpit, the flight data reporter shows that he brief leave set the planes auto pilot to 100 feet before leveling off again. >> he certainly was exploring the aircraft and its ability to go up or down. and not stop him from descending it into the ground. making sure nobody would see him. >> reporte...

The success is on irans cooperation and theyre handled by the energy agency or the ia ea. it says that iran will grant access to suspicious sites. now as many are saying the devil is in the details when it comatose the deal. we just heard that congress is away in the break. we will see what kind of push back theyre going to give when they come back from the two week recess. as president obama said in the remarks if congress kills the deal its the united states thats going to be blamed for a fail...

Big developments today in the search to understand the final moments of germanwings flight 9525. french salvage teams have found the second black box, which should contain crucial flight data. while german investigators say the copilot researched how to commit suicide in the days before flying that plane into the french alps. nbcs claudia levonga is back for us near the crash site. lets start with the second black box. any word on if the information on it is salvageable. >> reporter: well, the i...

Supposedly hitting the mountain, all of this from the transcript of that audio recording. in the french alps, rescue teams sill trying to find the other black box which has the flight data recordings to add to, as they piece together this puzzle. errol? >> and diana, the bea hasnt come out and said that this report is inaccurate. weve yet to confirm it, but it does seem these two separate reports match up with one another. also quite chilling that in this detailed timeline, it seems that the co-...

And there are different ways that you can make the airplane descend. >> peter, they have yet located one of the recorders. what can we learn from the flight data that we dont know now? >> i think weve got the major pieces but you would want to confirm exactly what the pilot was doing during the final moments. it will confirm whether, when he put the new altitude in it will confirm whether he had done anything prior to that. had he tried this out during the preflight? was there any other warning ...

The wind slowing things down. but the investigators there have two priorities. the first being to find that missing flight data recorder. 9 theyre still looking for the file. the ceo of lufthansa said he believes theres a high probability that they will eventually find the recorder itself. but the question is what kind of condition will that recorder be in when and if they do. especially considering its seen as important to giving them more clues as to how that plane was performing, what sort of...

>> are these things we will ultimately learn once we get the flight data recorder? >> this was a retro fitted aircraft. it was put in after 2003 or 2004 probably. thats going to be a problem. the newer aircraft, it would be on the data recorder. we wont have that benefit. were looking for reasons why this happened. typically you get the flight data record their tells how things went but it doesnt tell you why. we get the voice recorder to tell you why. now we have the flight data and still askin...

Nothing more about him, but there are reporters en route to find out as much as they possibly can. we can tell you 50 german families flew out from dusseldorf about 60 families from spain, from barcelona to marseille to make their way up into the alps the staging area. theyre held there now and asked to do a flyover, over the crash site but denied because of the rov rir effort and investigation still very much ongoing. we are told that they did know about this. were not told when they knew about...

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